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Stephan Uphoff 224409590d When the VM needs to allocated physical memory pages (for non interrupt use)
and it has not plenty of free pages it tries to free pages in the cache queue.
Unfortunately freeing a cached page requires the locking of the object that
owns the page. However in the context of allocating pages we may not be able
to lock the object and thus can only TRY to lock the object. If the locking try
fails the cache page can not be freed and is activated to move it out of the way
so that we may try to free other cache pages.

If all pages in the cache belong to objects that are currently locked the
cache queue can be emptied without freeing a single page. This scenario caused
two problems:

    1)  vm_page_alloc always failed allocation when it tried freeing pages from
        the cache queue and failed to do so. However if there are more than
        cnt.v_interrupt_free_min pages on the free list it should return pages
        when requested with priority VM_ALLOC_SYSTEM. Failure to do so can cause
        resource exhaustion deadlocks.

    2)  Threads than need to allocate pages spend a lot of time cleaning up the
        page queue without really getting anything done while the pagedaemon
         needs to work overtime to refill the cache.

This change fixes the first problem. (1)

Reviewed by:	tegge@
2006-02-15 22:29:53 +00:00
bin Add '-F' option which allows to delete existing empty directories, when 2006-02-14 11:08:05 +00:00
contrib This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r155602, 2006-02-13 14:11:18 +00:00
crypto Fix the amd64 (and presumably ia64) lib32 build by ensuring that the 2006-01-02 11:28:42 +00:00
etc Update a comment to match functionality changed in r1.39 (allow square 2006-02-15 14:37:35 +00:00
games Clarify time frame of jkh quote. 2006-01-31 21:51:54 +00:00
gnu - Add default choice option for --yesno box. 2006-02-07 20:14:07 +00:00
include Introduce a new proc service routine ps_linfo() to get LWP info. 2006-02-07 02:29:55 +00:00
kerberos5 Add a new extensible GSS-API layer which can support GSS-API plugins, 2005-12-29 14:40:22 +00:00
lib After fork(), reinitialize internal locks for pthread_once(). 2006-02-15 13:41:02 +00:00
libexec Fix a malloc overrun in 32-bit compat libmap lookup code. 2006-01-31 06:08:28 +00:00
release Pick some low-hanging release notes fruit from cvs imports. 2006-02-09 17:30:13 +00:00
rescue Install nextboot in /rescue as /rescue/nextboot rather than 2005-12-15 18:29:01 +00:00
sbin fix off by one malloc sizes 2006-02-14 23:19:40 +00:00
secure Hook audit into OpenSSH. Now that the necessary bits for OpenSSH support 2006-02-12 07:19:45 +00:00
share - Add info regarding the watchdog part of the MK48Txx. 2006-02-15 16:57:30 +00:00
sys When the VM needs to allocated physical memory pages (for non interrupt use) 2006-02-15 22:29:53 +00:00
tools Add regression test which verifies that options -P and -i cannot be used 2006-02-12 02:07:56 +00:00
usr.bin Move the "r p d s w" fields to the left to create space for expansion. 2006-02-14 13:27:25 +00:00
usr.sbin Change default build of wpa_supplicant to include EAPOL support; 2006-02-14 23:51:21 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Happy new year, a little late 2006-01-15 22:06:10 +00:00
LOCKS Document commit constraints for RELENG_6_*. 2006-01-13 06:51:43 +00:00
MAINTAINERS Remove extra geom_zero. 2005-12-12 01:28:19 +00:00
Makefile Fix a bug in previous revision: skip LINT if it exists, not NOTES 2005-11-28 11:14:36 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Revert the previous change - the lib32 build should work now. 2006-01-02 17:52:16 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc s/bin/sbin/ for mount_nwfs, mount_portalfs and mount_smbfs. They never 2006-02-04 08:07:00 +00:00
README KerberosIV de-orbit burn continues. Disconnect from "make world". 2003-03-08 10:01:26 +00:00
UPDATING Record the change in vnone_create_vobject() argument size, 2006-02-01 13:04:52 +00:00

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