originally inspired by the Solaris vmem detailed in the proceedings
of usenix 2001. The NetBSD version was heavily refactored for bugs
and simplicity.
- Use this resource allocator to allocate the buffer and transient maps.
Buffer cache defrags are reduced by 25% when used by filesystems with
mixed block sizes. Ultimately this may permit dynamic buffer cache
sizing on low KVA machines.
Discussed with: alc, kib, attilio
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
- Split the bqlock into bqclean and bqdirty locks.
- Only acquire the wakeup synchronization locks when we cross a
threshold requiring them.
- Restructure the way flushbufqueues() targets work so they are more
smp friendly and sane.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: mckusick, attilio
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
M vfs_bio.c
used as the estimation of size, to 32GB. This provides around 100K of
buffer headers and corresponding KVA for buffer map at the peak.
Sizing the cache larger is not useful, also resulting in the wasting
and exhausting of KVA for large machines.
Reported and tested by: bdrewery
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
- Use a shared bufobj lock in getblk() and inmem().
- Convert softdep's lk to rwlock to match the bufobj lock.
- Move INFREECNT to b_flags and protect it with the buf lock.
- Remove unnecessary locking around bremfree() and BKGRDINPROG.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Discussed with: mckusick, kib, mdf
but assumes that a thread reference was already obtained on the passed
device. Use the function from physio(), to avoid two extra dev_mtx
lock and unlock. Note that physio() is always used as the cdevsw
method, or is called from a cdevsw method, and the caller already owns
the reference.
dev_strategy() is left to keep KPI intact, but now it is implemented
as a wrapper around dev_strategy_csw().
Do some style cleanup in physio().
Requested and reviewed by: kan (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
maxbcache size fixed, the auto-tuned transient map is too small for
real-world load on i386.
Tested by: David Wolfskill
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
bufobj counter of the writes in progress is incremented. Other thread
inspecting the bufobj would consider it clean.
For the regular vnodes, the vnode lock is typically held both by the
thread performing the bufwrite() and an other thread doing syncing,
which prevents the situation. On the other hand, writes to the VCHR
vnodes are done without holding vnode lock.
Increment the write ref counter for the buffer object before calling
bundirty().
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks
buffer, transparently handling mapped or unmapped buffers. Its intent
is to replace the use of bzero(bp->b_data) in cases where the buffer
might be unmapped, to avoid unneeded upgrades.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Tested by: pho
do not map the b_pages pages into buffer_map KVA. The use of the
unmapped buffers eliminate the need to perform TLB shootdown for
mapping on the buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the amount
of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30%
of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.
The unmapped buffer should be explicitely requested by the GB_UNMAPPED
flag by the consumer. For unmapped buffer, no KVA reservation is
performed at all. The consumer might request unmapped buffer which
does have a KVA reserve, to manually map it without recursing into
buffer cache and blocking, with the GB_KVAALLOC flag.
When the mapped buffer is requested and unmapped buffer already
exists, the cache performs an upgrade, possibly reusing the KVA
reservation.
Unmapped buffer is translated into unmapped bio in g_vfs_strategy().
Unmapped bio carry a pointer to the vm_page_t array, offset and length
instead of the data pointer. The provider which processes the bio
should explicitely specify a readiness to accept unmapped bio,
otherwise g_down geom thread performs the transient upgrade of the bio
request by mapping the pages into the new bio_transient_map KVA
submap.
The bio_transient_map submap claims up to 10% of the buffer map, and
the total buffer_map + bio_transient_map KVA usage stays the
same. Still, it could be manually tuned by kern.bio_transient_maxcnt
tunable, in the units of the transient mappings. Eventually, the
bio_transient_map could be removed after all geom classes and drivers
can accept unmapped i/o requests.
Unmapped support can be turned off by the vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed
tunable, disabling which makes the buffer (or cluster) creation
requests to ignore GB_UNMAPPED and GB_KVAALLOC flags. Unmapped
buffers are only enabled by default on the architectures where
pmap_copy_page() was implemented and tested.
In the rework, filesystem metadata is not the subject to maxbufspace
limit anymore. Since the metadata buffers are always mapped, the
buffers still have to fit into the buffer map, which provides a
reasonable (but practically unreachable) upper bound on it. The
non-metadata buffer allocations, both mapped and unmapped, is
accounted against maxbufspace, as before. Effectively, this means that
the maxbufspace is forced on mapped and unmapped buffers separately.
The pre-patch bufspace limiting code did not worked, because
buffer_map fragmentation does not allow the limit to be reached.
By Jeff Roberson request, the getnewbuf() function was split into
smaller single-purpose functions.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Discussed with: jeff (previous version)
Tested by: pho, scottl (previous version), jhb, bf
MFC after: 2 weeks
cluster_write() and cluster_wbuild() functions. The flags to be
allowed are a subset of the GB_* flags for getblk().
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Tested by: pho
buffers directly, use pmap_zero_page_area(9) for each zeroing page
region instead.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks
future further optimizations where the vm_object lock will be held
in read mode most of the time the page cache resident pool of pages
are accessed for reading purposes.
The change is mostly mechanical but few notes are reported:
* The KPI changes as follow:
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_TRYLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_TRYWLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WUNLOCK()
- VM_OBJECT_LOCK_ASSERT(MA_OWNED) -> VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_WLOCKED()
(in order to avoid visibility of implementation details)
- The read-mode operations are added:
VM_OBJECT_RLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_TRYRLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_RUNLOCK(),
VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_RLOCKED(), VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_LOCKED()
* The vm/vm_pager.h namespace pollution avoidance (forcing requiring
sys/mutex.h in consumers directly to cater its inlining functions
using VM_OBJECT_LOCK()) imposes that all the vm/vm_pager.h
consumers now must include also sys/rwlock.h.
* zfs requires a quite convoluted fix to include FreeBSD rwlocks into
the compat layer because the name clash between FreeBSD and solaris
versions must be avoided.
At this purpose zfs redefines the vm_object locking functions
directly, isolating the FreeBSD components in specific compat stubs.
The KPI results heavilly broken by this commit. Thirdy part ports must
be updated accordingly (I can think off-hand of VirtualBox, for example).
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: jeff
Reviewed by: pjd (ZFS specific review)
Discussed with: alc
Tested by: pho
intact if getblk() is done on the already owned buffer. Exit from
brelse() early when the lock recursion is detected, otherwise brelse()
might prematurely destroy the buffer under some circumstances.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Noted by: mckusick
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks
write is a disk write request that tells the disk that the buffer
being written must be committed to the media along with any writes
that preceeded it before any future blocks may be written to the drive.
Barrier writes are provided by adding the functions bbarrierwrite
(bwrite with barrier) and babarrierwrite (bawrite with barrier).
Following a bbarrierwrite the client knows that the requested buffer
is on the media. It does not ensure that buffers written before that
buffer are on the media. It only ensure that buffers written before
that buffer will get to the media before any buffers written after
that buffer. A flush command must be sent to the disk to ensure that
all earlier written buffers are on the media.
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: Peter Holm
When kern_yield() was introduced with the possibility to specify
a new priority, the behaviour changed by not lowering priority at all
in the consumers, making the yielding mechanism highly ineffective for
high priority kthreads like bufdaemon, syncer, vlrudaemon, etc.
There are no evidences that consumers could bear with such change in
semantic and this situation could finally lead to bugs similar to the
ones fixed in r244240.
Re-specify userland pri for kthreads involved.
Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: kib, mdf
MFC after: 1 week
call. The function indicates a failure by the TRUE return value. To
be extra safe, assert that the return value from the following
vm_map_insert() indicates success.
Fix style issues in the nearby lines, reformulate the comment.
Reviewed by: alc (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
In particular, do not lock Giant conditionally when calling into the
filesystem module, remove the VFS_LOCK_GIANT() and related
macros. Stop handling buffers belonging to non-mpsafe filesystems.
The VFS_VERSION is bumped to indicate the interface change which does
not result in the interface signatures changes.
Conducted and reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho
snapshots on UFS filesystems running with journaled soft updates.
This is the first of several bugs that need to be fixed before
removing the restriction added in -r230250 to prevent the use
of snapshots on filesystems running with journaled soft updates.
The deadlock occurs when holding the snapshot lock (snaplk)
and then trying to flush an inode via ffs_update(). We become
blocked by another process trying to flush a different inode
contained in the same inode block that we need. It holds the
inode block for which we are waiting locked. When it tries to
write the inode block, it gets blocked waiting for the our
snaplk when it calls ffs_copyonwrite() to see if the inode
block needs to be copied in our snapshot.
The most obvious place that this deadlock arises is in the
ffs_copyonwrite() routine when it updates critical metadata
in a snapshot and tries to write it out before proceeding.
The fix here is to write the data and indirect block pointer
for the snapshot, but to skip the call to ffs_update() to
write the snapshot inode. To ensure that we will never have
to update a pointer in the inode itself, the ffs_snapshot()
routine that creates the snapshot has to ensure that all the
direct blocks are allocated as part of the creation of the
snapshot.
A less obvious place that this deadlock occurs is when we hold
the snaplk because we are deleting a snapshot. In the course of
doing the deletion, we need to allocate various soft update
dependency structures and allocate some journal space. If we
hit a resource limit while doing this we decrease the resources
in use by flushing out an existing dirty file to get it to give
up the soft dependency resources that it holds. The flush can
cause an ffs_update() to be done on the inode for the file that
we have selected to flush resulting in the same deadlock as
described above when the inode that we have chosen to flush
resides in the same inode block as the snapshot inode that we hold.
The fix is to defer cleaning up any time that the inode on which
we are operating is a snapshot.
Help and review by: Jeff Roberson
Tested by: Peter Holm
MFC (to 9 only) after: 2 weeks
- Axe out the SHOW_BUSYBUFS option and uses a tunable for selectively
enable/disable it, which is defaulted for not printing anything (0
value) but can be changed for printing (1 value) and be verbose (2
value)
- Improves the informations outputed: right now, there is no track of
the actual struct buf object or vnode which are referenced by the
shutdown process, but it is printed the related struct bufobj object
which is not really helpful
- Add more verbosity about the state of the struct buf lock and the
vnode informations, with the latter to be activated separately by the
sysctl
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, kib
Approved by: re (ksmith)
MFC after: 10 days
should not change. Fetch the td_user_pri under the thread lock. This
is probably not necessary but a magic number also seems preferable to
knowing the implementation details here.
Requested by: Jason Behmer < jason DOT behmer AT isilon DOT com >
KASSERT()s and eliminate the rest.
Replace excessive printf()s and a panic() in bufdone_finish() with a
KASSERT() in vm_page_io_finish().
Reviewed by: kib
- entirely eliminate some calls to uio_yeild() as being unnecessary,
such as in a sysctl handler.
- move should_yield() and maybe_yield() to kern_synch.c and move the
prototypes from sys/uio.h to sys/proc.h
- add a slightly more generic kern_yield() that can replace the
functionality of uio_yield().
- replace source uses of uio_yield() with the functional equivalent,
or in some cases do not change the thread priority when switching.
- fix a logic inversion bug in vlrureclaim(), pointed out by bde@.
- instead of using the per-cpu last switched ticks, use a per thread
variable for should_yield(). With PREEMPTION, the only reasonable
use of this is to determine if a lock has been held a long time and
relinquish it. Without PREEMPTION, this is essentially the same as
the per-cpu variable.
consumer of the flag, and it used the flag because OBJ_MIGHTBEDIRTY
was cleared early in vm_object_page_clean, before the cleaning pass
was done. This is no longer true after r216799.
Moreover, since OBJ_CLEANING is a flag, and not the counter, it could
be reset too prematurely when parallel vm_object_page_clean() are
performed.
Reviewed by: alc (as a part of the bigger patch)
MFC after: 1 month (after r216799 is merged)
bufobj lock. If b_bufobj is not NULL, then bufobj lock should be
held when manipulating the flags. Not doing this sometimes leaves
BV_BKGRDINPROG to be erronously set, causing softdep' getdirtybuf() to
stuck indefinitely in "getbuf" sleep, waiting for background write to
finish which is not actually performed.
Add BO_LOCK() in the cases where it was missed.
In collaboration with: pho
Tested by: bz
Reviewed by: jeff
MFC after: 1 month
cdev will never be destroyed. Propagate the flag to devfs vnodes as
VV_ETERNVALDEV. Use the flags to avoid acquiring devmtx and taking a
thread reference on such nodes.
In collaboration with: pho
MFC after: 1 month
