Commit Graph

29 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
John Dyson
38efa82b23 This commit does a couple of things:
Re-enables the RSS limiting, and the routine is now tail-recursive,
	making it much more safe (eliminates the possiblity of kernel stack
	overflow.) Also, the RSS limiting is a little more intelligent about
	finding the likely objects that are pushing the process over the limit.

	Added some sysctls that help with VM system tuning.

New sysctl features:
	1)	Enable/disable lru pageout algorithm.
		vm.pageout_algorithm = 0, default algorithm that works
			well, especially using X windows and heavy
			memory loading.  Can have adverse effects,
			sometimes slowing down program loading.

		vm.pageout_algorithm = 1, close to true LRU.  Works much
			better than clock, etc.  Does not work as well as
			the default algorithm in general.  Certain memory
			"malloc" type benchmarks work a little better with
			this setting.

		Please give me feedback on the performance results
		associated with these.

	2)	Enable/disable swapping.
		vm.swapping_enabled = 1, default.

		vm.swapping_enabled = 0, useful for cases where swapping
			degrades performance.

		The config option "NO_SWAPPING" is still operative, and
		takes precedence over the sysctl.  If "NO_SWAPPING" is
		specified, the sysctl still exists, but "vm.swapping_enabled"
		is hard-wired to "0".

Each of these can be changed "on the fly."
1996-06-26 05:39:27 +00:00
John Dyson
886d3e1150 Adjust the threshold for blocking on movement of pages from the cache
queue in vm_fault.

Move the PG_BUSY in vm_fault to the correct place.

Remove redundant/unnecessary code in pmap.c.

Properly block on rundown of page table pages, if they are busy.

I think that the VM system is in pretty good shape now, and the following
individuals (among others, in no particular order) have helped with this
recent bunch of bugs, thanks!  If I left anyone out, I apologize!

Stephen McKay, Stephen Hocking, Eric J. Chet, Dan O'Brien, James Raynard,
Marc Fournier.
1996-06-08 06:48:35 +00:00
John Dyson
6b6f000870 Keep page-table pages from ever being sensed as dirty. This should fix
some problems with the page-table page management code, since it can't
deal with the notion of page-table pages being paged out or in transit.
Also, clean up some stylistic issues per some suggestions from
Stephen McKay.
1996-06-05 03:31:49 +00:00
John Dyson
7f5fe93fc7 One more file missing from the mega-commit. This inlines some very
simple routines in vm_page.c, so that an unnecessary subroutine call
is removed.
1996-05-18 04:00:18 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
6c5e9bbdf5 Fix a bunch of spelling errors in the comment fields of
a bunch of system include files.
1996-01-30 23:02:38 +00:00
John Dyson
bd7e5f992e Eliminated many redundant vm_map_lookup operations for vm_mmap.
Speed up for vfs_bio -- addition of a routine bqrelse to greatly diminish
	overhead for merged cache.
Efficiency improvement for vfs_cluster.  It used to do alot of redundant
	calls to cluster_rbuild.
Correct the ordering for vrele of .text and release of credentials.
Use the selective tlb update for 486/586/P6.
Numerous fixes to the size of objects allocated for files.  Additionally,
	fixes in the various pagers.
Fixes for proper positioning of vnode_pager_setsize in msdosfs and ext2fs.
Fixes in the swap pager for exhausted resources.  The pageout code
	will not as readily thrash.
Change the page queue flags (PG_ACTIVE, PG_INACTIVE, PG_FREE, PG_CACHE) into
	page queue indices (PQ_ACTIVE, PQ_INACTIVE, PQ_FREE, PQ_CACHE),
	thereby improving efficiency of several routines.
Eliminate even more unnecessary vm_page_protect operations.
Significantly speed up process forks.
Make vm_object_page_clean more efficient, thereby eliminating the pause
	that happens every 30seconds.
Make sequential clustered writes B_ASYNC instead of B_DELWRI even in the
	case of filesystems mounted async.
Fix a panic with busy pages when write clustering is done for non-VMIO
	buffers.
1996-01-19 04:00:31 +00:00
John Dyson
a316d390bd Changes to support 1Tb filesizes. Pages are now named by an
(object,index) pair instead of (object,offset) pair.
1995-12-11 04:58:34 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
3af768903d Remove unused vars & funcs, make things static, protoize a little bit. 1995-11-20 12:20:02 +00:00
John Dyson
d559b36913 Remove of now unused PG_COPYONWRITE. 1995-10-23 04:29:39 +00:00
John Dyson
10ad4d483c Added prototype for new routine "vm_page_set_validclean" and initial
declarations for the prezeroed pages mechanism.
1995-09-03 20:11:26 +00:00
David Greenman
24a1cce34f NOTE: libkvm, w, ps, 'top', and any other utility which depends on struct
proc or any VM system structure will have to be rebuilt!!!

Much needed overhaul of the VM system. Included in this first round of
changes:

1) Improved pager interfaces: init, alloc, dealloc, getpages, putpages,
   haspage, and sync operations are supported. The haspage interface now
   provides information about clusterability. All pager routines now take
   struct vm_object's instead of "pagers".

2) Improved data structures. In the previous paradigm, there is constant
   confusion caused by pagers being both a data structure ("allocate a
   pager") and a collection of routines. The idea of a pager structure has
   escentially been eliminated. Objects now have types, and this type is
   used to index the appropriate pager. In most cases, items in the pager
   structure were duplicated in the object data structure and thus were
   unnecessary. In the few cases that remained, a un_pager structure union
   was created in the object to contain these items.

3) Because of the cleanup of #1 & #2, a lot of unnecessary layering can now
   be removed. For instance, vm_object_enter(), vm_object_lookup(),
   vm_object_remove(), and the associated object hash list were some of the
   things that were removed.

4) simple_lock's removed. Discussion with several people reveals that the
   SMP locking primitives used in the VM system aren't likely the mechanism
   that we'll be adopting. Even if it were, the locking that was in the code
   was very inadequate and would have to be mostly re-done anyway. The
   locking in a uni-processor kernel was a no-op but went a long way toward
   making the code difficult to read and debug.

5) Places that attempted to kludge-up the fact that we don't have kernel
   thread support have been fixed to reflect the reality that we are really
   dealing with processes, not threads. The VM system didn't have complete
   thread support, so the comments and mis-named routines were just wrong.
   We now use tsleep and wakeup directly in the lock routines, for instance.

6) Where appropriate, the pagers have been improved, especially in the
   pager_alloc routines. Most of the pager_allocs have been rewritten and
   are now faster and easier to maintain.

7) The pagedaemon pageout clustering algorithm has been rewritten and
   now tries harder to output an even number of pages before and after
   the requested page. This is sort of the reverse of the ideal pagein
   algorithm and should provide better overall performance.

8) Unnecessary (incorrect) casts to caddr_t in calls to tsleep & wakeup
   have been removed. Some other unnecessary casts have also been removed.

9) Some almost useless debugging code removed.

10) Terminology of shadow objects vs. backing objects straightened out.
    The fact that the vm_object data structure escentially had this
    backwards really confused things. The use of "shadow" and "backing
    object" throughout the code is now internally consistent and correct
    in the Mach terminology.

11) Several minor bug fixes, including one in the vm daemon that caused
    0 RSS objects to not get purged as intended.

12) A "default pager" has now been created which cleans up the transition
    of objects to the "swap" type. The previous checks throughout the code
    for swp->pg_data != NULL were really ugly. This change also provides
    the rudiments for future backing of "anonymous" memory by something
    other than the swap pager (via the vnode pager, for example), and it
    allows the decision about which of these pagers to use to be made
    dynamically (although will need some additional decision code to do
    this, of course).

13) (dyson) MAP_COPY has been deprecated and the corresponding "copy
    object" code has been removed. MAP_COPY was undocumented and non-
    standard. It was furthermore broken in several ways which caused its
    behavior to degrade to MAP_PRIVATE. Binaries that use MAP_COPY will
    continue to work correctly, but via the slightly different semantics
    of MAP_PRIVATE.

14) (dyson) Sharing maps have been removed. It's marginal usefulness in a
    threads design can be worked around in other ways. Both #12 and #13
    were done to simplify the code and improve readability and maintain-
    ability. (As were most all of these changes)

TODO:

1) Rewrite most of the vnode pager to use VOP_GETPAGES/PUTPAGES. Doing
   this will reduce the vnode pager to a mere fraction of its current size.

2) Rewrite vm_fault and the swap/vnode pagers to use the clustering
   information provided by the new haspage pager interface. This will
   substantially reduce the overhead by eliminating a large number of
   VOP_BMAP() calls. The VOP_BMAP() filesystem interface should be
   improved to provide both a "behind" and "ahead" indication of
   contiguousness.

3) Implement the extended features of pager_haspage in swap_pager_haspage().
   It currently just says 0 pages ahead/behind.

4) Re-implement the swap device (swstrategy) in a more elegant way, perhaps
   via a much more general mechanism that could also be used for disk
   striping of regular filesystems.

5) Do something to improve the architecture of vm_object_collapse(). The
   fact that it makes calls into the swap pager and knows too much about
   how the swap pager operates really bothers me. It also doesn't allow
   for collapsing of non-swap pager objects ("unnamed" objects backed by
   other pagers).
1995-07-13 08:48:48 +00:00
Bruce Evans
7666fb4753 inline -> __inline.
Headers should always use `__inline' for inline functions to avoid
syntax errors when modules that don't even use the offending functions
are compiled with `gcc -ansi'.
1995-04-23 08:05:49 +00:00
David Greenman
8953151fc8 Removed some obsolete flags.
Submitted by:   John Dyson
1995-03-26 23:33:14 +00:00
David Greenman
f919ebde54 Various changes from John and myself that do the following:
New functions create - vm_object_pip_wakeup and pagedaemon_wakeup that
are used to reduce the actual number of wakeups.
New function vm_page_protect which is used in conjuction with some new
page flags to reduce the number of calls to pmap_page_protect.
Minor changes to reduce unnecessary spl nesting.
Rewrote vm_page_alloc() to improve readability.
Various other mostly cosmetic changes.
1995-03-01 23:30:04 +00:00
David Greenman
0c1dacbc5c Moved ACT_MAX, ACT_ADVANCE, and ACT_DECLINE to vm_page.h. 1995-02-20 23:35:45 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
d2fc53150b YF fix. 1995-02-14 06:14:28 +00:00
David Greenman
6d40c3d394 Added ability to detect sequential faults and DTRT. (swap_pager.c)
Added hook for pmap_prefault() and use symbolic constant for new third
argument to vm_page_alloc() (vm_fault.c, various)
Changed the way that upages and page tables are held. (vm_glue.c)
Fixed architectural flaw in allocating pages at interrupt time that was
introduced with the merged cache changes. (vm_page.c, various)
Adjusted some algorithms to acheive better paging performance and to
accomodate the fix for the architectural flaw mentioned above. (vm_pageout.c)
Fixed pbuf handling problem, changed policy on handling read-behind page.
(vnode_pager.c)

Submitted by:	John Dyson
1995-01-24 10:14:09 +00:00
David Greenman
a776a317e9 Kill VM_PAGE_INIT macro as it is only used once and makes the code more
difficult to understand. Got rid of unused vm_page flags.
1995-01-10 09:19:52 +00:00
David Greenman
0d94caffca These changes embody the support of the fully coherent merged VM buffer cache,
much higher filesystem I/O performance, and much better paging performance. It
represents the culmination of over 6 months of R&D.

The majority of the merged VM/cache work is by John Dyson.

The following highlights the most significant changes. Additionally, there are
(mostly minor) changes to the various filesystem modules (nfs, msdosfs, etc) to
support the new VM/buffer scheme.

vfs_bio.c:
Significant rewrite of most of vfs_bio to support the merged VM buffer cache
scheme.  The scheme is almost fully compatible with the old filesystem
interface.  Significant improvement in the number of opportunities for write
clustering.

vfs_cluster.c, vfs_subr.c
Upgrade and performance enhancements in vfs layer code to support merged
VM/buffer cache.  Fixup of vfs_cluster to eliminate the bogus pagemove stuff.

vm_object.c:
Yet more improvements in the collapse code.  Elimination of some windows that
can cause list corruption.

vm_pageout.c:
Fixed it, it really works better now.  Somehow in 2.0, some "enhancements"
broke the code.  This code has been reworked from the ground-up.

vm_fault.c, vm_page.c, pmap.c, vm_object.c
Support for small-block filesystems with merged VM/buffer cache scheme.

pmap.c vm_map.c
Dynamic kernel VM size, now we dont have to pre-allocate excessive numbers of
kernel PTs.

vm_glue.c
Much simpler and more effective swapping code.  No more gratuitous swapping.

proc.h
Fixed the problem that the p_lock flag was not being cleared on a fork.

swap_pager.c, vnode_pager.c
Removal of old vfs_bio cruft to support the past pseudo-coherency.  Now the
code doesn't need it anymore.

machdep.c
Changes to better support the parameter values for the merged VM/buffer cache
scheme.

machdep.c, kern_exec.c, vm_glue.c
Implemented a seperate submap for temporary exec string space and another one
to contain process upages. This eliminates all map fragmentation problems
that previously existed.

ffs_inode.c, ufs_inode.c, ufs_readwrite.c
Changes for merged VM/buffer cache.  Add "bypass" support for sneaking in on
busy buffers.

Submitted by:	John Dyson and David Greenman
1995-01-09 16:06:02 +00:00
Bruce Evans
4f21005bdd pmap.h:
Disable the bogus declaration of pmap_bootstrap().  Since its arg list
is machine-dependent, it must be declared in a machine-dependent header.

vm_page.h:
Change `inline' to `__inline' and old-style function parameter lists for
inlined functions to new-style.

`inline' and old-style function parameter lists should never be used in
system headers, even in very machine-dependent ones, because they cause
warnings from gcc -Wreally-all.
1994-11-14 08:19:08 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
091b0456f4 Make my ALLDEVS kernel compile (basically, LINT minus a lot of options).
This involves fixing a few things I broke last time.
1994-10-21 01:19:28 +00:00
David Greenman
27de4e40b8 Put sanity check for negative hold count into #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC so that
it doesn't consume an extra 3k of kernel text because of gcc's bogus
inlining code.
1994-10-17 10:43:56 +00:00
David Greenman
8e58bf6875 Stuff object into v_vmdata rather than pager. Not important which at
the moment, but will be in the future. Other changes mostly cosmetic,
but are made for future VMIO considerations.

Submitted by:	John Dyson
1994-10-05 09:48:45 +00:00
David Greenman
d3c2cf7a80 1) New "vm_page_alloc_contig" routine by me.
2) Created a new vm_page flag "PG_FREE" to help track free pages.
3) Use PG_FREE flag to detect inconsistencies in a few places.
1994-09-27 18:00:29 +00:00
David Greenman
a647a30954 Simple changes to paging algorithms...but boy do they make a difference.
FreeBSD's paging performance has never been better. Wow.

Submitted by:	John Dyson
1994-09-06 11:28:46 +00:00
David Greenman
bbc0ec5284 Integrated VM system improvements/fixes from FreeBSD-1.1.5. 1994-08-04 03:06:48 +00:00
David Greenman
3c4dd3568f Added $Id$ 1994-08-02 07:55:43 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
26f9a76710 The big 4.4BSD Lite to FreeBSD 2.0.0 (Development) patch.
Reviewed by:	Rodney W. Grimes
Submitted by:	John Dyson and David Greenman
1994-05-25 09:21:21 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
df8bae1de4 BSD 4.4 Lite Kernel Sources 1994-05-24 10:09:53 +00:00