Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.
To use this code you must compile a kernel with
options DEVICE_POLLING
and at runtime enable polling with
sysctl kern.polling.enable=1
The percentage of CPU reserved to userland can be set with
sysctl kern.polling.user_frac=NN (default is 50)
while the remainder is used by polling device drivers and netisr's.
These are the only two variables that you should need to touch. There
are a few more parameters in kern.polling but the default values
are adequate for all purposes. See the code in kern_poll.c for
more details on them.
Polling in the idle loop will be implemented shortly by introducing
a kernel thread which does the job. Until then, the amount of CPU
dedicated to polling will never exceed (100-user_frac).
The equivalent (actually, better) code for -stable is at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/
and also supports polling in the idle loop.
NOTE to Alpha developers:
There is really nothing in this code that is i386-specific.
If you move the 2 lines supporting the new option from
sys/conf/{files,options}.i386 to sys/conf/{files,options} I am
pretty sure that this should work on the Alpha as well, just that
I do not have a suitable test box to try it. If someone feels like
trying it, I would appreciate it.
NOTE to other developers:
sure some things could be done better, and as always I am open to
constructive criticism, which a few of you have already given and
I greatly appreciated.
However, before proposing radical architectural changes, please
take some time to possibly try out this code, or at the very least
read the comments in kern_poll.c, especially re. the reason why I
am using a soft netisr and cannot (I believe) replace it with a
simple timeout.
Quick description of files touched by this commit:
sys/conf/files.i386
new file kern/kern_poll.c
sys/conf/options.i386
new option
sys/i386/i386/trap.c
poll in trap (disabled by default)
sys/kern/kern_clock.c
initialization and hardclock hooks.
sys/kern/kern_intr.c
minor swi_net changes
sys/kern/kern_poll.c
the bulk of the code.
sys/net/if.h
new flag
sys/net/if_var.h
declaration for functions used in device drivers.
sys/net/netisr.h
NETISR_POLL
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxpvar.h
sys/pci/if_dc.c
sys/pci/if_dcreg.h
sys/pci/if_sis.c
sys/pci/if_sisreg.h
device driver modifications
When a positively niced process requests a disk I/O, make
it wait for its nice value of ticks before scheduling its
I/O request if there are any other processes with I/O
requests in the disk queue. For all the gory details, see
the ``Running fsck in the Background'' paper in the Usenix
BSDCon 2002 Conference Proceedings, pages 55-64.
commit by Kirk also fixed a softupdates bug that could easily be triggered
by server side NFS.
* An edge case with shared R+W mmap()'s and truncate whereby
the system would inappropriately clear the dirty bits on
still-dirty data. (applicable to all filesystems)
THIS FIX TEMPORARILY DISABLED PENDING FURTHER TESTING.
see vm/vm_page.c line 1641
* The straddle case for VM pages and buffer cache buffers when
truncating. (applicable to NFS client side)
* Possible SMP database corruption due to vm_pager_unmap_page()
not clearing the TLB for the other cpu's. (applicable to NFS
client side but could effect all filesystems). Note: not
considered serious since the corruption occurs beyond the file
EOF.
* When flusing a dirty buffer due to B_CACHE getting cleared,
we were accidently setting B_CACHE again (that is, bwrite() sets
B_CACHE), when we really want it to stay clear after the write
is complete. This resulted in a corrupt buffer. (applicable
to all filesystems but probably only triggered by NFS)
* We have to call vtruncbuf() when ftruncate()ing to remove
any buffer cache buffers. This is still tentitive, I may
be able to remove it due to the second bug fix. (applicable
to NFS client side)
* vnode_pager_setsize() race against nfs_vinvalbuf()... we have
to set n_size before calling nfs_vinvalbuf or the NFS code
may recursively vnode_pager_setsize() to the original value
before the truncate. This is what was causing the user mmap
bus faults in the nfs tester program. (applicable to NFS
client side)
* Fix to softupdates (see ufs/ffs/ffs_inode.c 1.73, commit made
by Kirk).
Testing program written by: Avadis Tevanian, Jr.
Testing program supplied by: jkh / Apple (see Dec2001 posting to freebsd-hackers with Subject 'NFS: How to make FreeBS fall on its face in one easy step')
MFC after: 1 week
always deriving the credential for a newly accepted connection from
the listen socket. Previously, the selection of the credential
depended on the protocol: UNIX domain sockets would use the
connecting process's credential, and protocols supporting a creation
of the socket before the receiving end called accept() would use
the listening socket. After this change, it is always the listening
credential.
Reviewed by: green
a KTR log entry. Any KTR requests made while working on an entry are
ignored/discarded to prevent recursion. This is a better fix for the
hack to futz with the CPU mask and call getnanotime() if KTR_LOCK or
KTR_WITNESS was on. It also covers the actual formatting of the log entry
including dumping it to the display which the earlier hacks did not.
where our security related sysctl tuneables are located. Also, this
will help if/when we move _security node out from under _kern as to help
make _kern less cluttered.
Approved by: rwatson
Review by: rwatson
- The MI portions of struct globaldata have been consolidated into a MI
struct pcpu. The MD per-CPU data are specified via a macro defined in
machine/pcpu.h. A macro was chosen over a struct mdpcpu so that the
interface would be cleaner (PCPU_GET(my_md_field) vs.
PCPU_GET(md.md_my_md_field)).
- All references to globaldata are changed to pcpu instead. In a UP kernel,
this data was stored as global variables which is where the original name
came from. In an SMP world this data is per-CPU and ideally private to each
CPU outside of the context of debuggers. This also included combining
machine/globaldata.h and machine/globals.h into machine/pcpu.h.
- The pointer to the thread using the FPU on i386 was renamed from
npxthread to fpcurthread to be identical with other architectures.
- Make the show pcpu ddb command MI with a MD callout to display MD
fields.
- The globaldata_register() function was renamed to pcpu_init() and now
init's MI fields of a struct pcpu in addition to registering it with
the internal array and list.
- A pcpu_destroy() function was added to remove a struct pcpu from the
internal array and list.
Tested on: alpha, i386
Reviewed by: peter, jake
This flag adds a pausing utility. When ran with -p, during the kernel
probing phase, the kernel will pause after each line of output.
This pausing can be ended with the '.' key, and is automatically
suspended when entering ddb.
This flag comes in handy at systems without a serial port that either hang
during booting or reser.
Reviewed by: (partly by jlemon)
MFC after: 1 week
In this case, C99's __func__ is properly defined as:
static const char __func__[] = "function-name";
and GCC 3.1 will not allow it to be used in bogus string concatenation.
o The manual page for kevent says that EVFILT_AIO returns under the same
conditions as aio_error(). With that in mind, set the data field
of the returned struct kevent to the value that would be returned
by aio_error().
o Fix two compilation warnings.
mutable contents of struct prison (hostname, securelevel, refcount,
pr_linux, ...)
o Generally introduce mtx_lock()/mtx_unlock() calls throughout kern/
so as to enforce these protections, in particular, in kern_mib.c
protection sysctl access to the hostname and securelevel, as well as
kern_prot.c access to the securelevel for access control purposes.
o Rewrite linux emulator abstractions for accessing per-jail linux
mib entries (osname, osrelease, osversion) so that they don't return
a pointer to the text in the struct linux_prison, rather, a copy
to an array passed into the calls. Likewise, update linprocfs to
use these primitives.
o Update in_pcb.c to always use prison_getip() rather than directly
accessing struct prison.
Reviewed by: jhb
- uid's -> uids
- whitespace improvements, linewrap improvements
- reorder copyright more appropriately
- remove redundant MP SAFE comments, add one "NOT MPSAFE?"
for setgroups(), which seems to be the sole un-changed system
call in the file.
- clean up securelevel_g?() functions, improve comments.
Largely submitted by: bde
you run out of mbuf address space.
kern/subr_mbuf.c: print a warning message when mb_alloc fails, again
rate-limited to at most once per second. This covers other
cases of mbuf allocation failures. Probably it also overlaps the
one handled in vm/vm_kern.c, so maybe the latter should go away.
This warning will let us gradually remove the printf that are scattered
across most network drivers to report mbuf allocation failures.
Those are potentially dangerous, in that they are not rate-limited and
can easily cause systems to panic.
Unless there is disagreement (which does not seem to be the case
judging from the discussion on -net so far), and because this is
sort of a safety bugfix, I plan to commit a similar change to STABLE
during the weekend (it affects kern/uipc_mbuf.c there).
Discussed-with: jlemon, silby and -net
the administrator to restrict access to the kernel message buffer.
It defaults to '1', which permits access, but if set to '0', requires
that the process making the sysctl() have appropriate privilege.
o Note that for this to be effective, access to this data via system
logs derived from /dev/klog must also be limited.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
that new models can inhabit kern.security.<modelname>.
o While I'm there, shorten somewhat excessive variable names, and clean
things up a little.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
readability.
o Conditionalize only the SYSCTL definitions for the regression
tree, not the variables itself, decreasing the number of #ifdef
REGRESSIONs scattered in kern_mib.c, and making the code more
readable.
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
For an object type, we maintain a variable mb_mapfull. It is 0 by default
and is only raised to 1 in one place: when an mb_pop_cont() fails for
the first time, on the assumption that the reason for the failure is
due to the underlying map for the object (e.g. clust_map, mbuf_map) being
exhausted.
Problem and Changes:
Change how we define "mb_mapfull." It now means: "set to 1 when the first
mb_pop_cont() fails only in the kmem_malloc()-ing of the object, and
only if the call was with the M_TRYWAIT flag." This is a more conservative
definition and should avoid odd [but theoretically possible] situations
from occuring. i.e. we had set mb_mapfull to 1 thinking the map for the
object was actually exhausted when we _actually_ failed in malloc()ing
the space for the bucket structure managing the objects in the page
we're allocating.
The kernel certainly doesn't use _PATH_DEV or even /dev/ to find the device.
It cannot, since "/" has not been mounted. Maybe the only affect of using
/dev/ is that it gets put in the mounted-from name for "/", so that mount(8),
etc., display an absolute path before "/" has been remounted. Many have
never bothered typing the full path, and code that constructs a path in
rootdevnames[] never bothered to construct a full path, so the example
shouldn't have it.
Submitted by: bde
