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
ordering that can prove fatal during large batches of deletes, but this
is much better than it was. I probably won't be putting much more time
into this until Seltzer releases her new version of LFS which has
fragment support. This should be availible just before USENIX.
timestamps for an atomic operation such as rename() on a local file
system to be identical.
Uniformize yet another idempotency ifdef. The comment nesting was
bogus.
Allow chown() to return success if the gid isn't changed even if
the gid is not the caller's. Such gids are normal for files created
in world-writable directories sucj as /tmp. This "fixes" annoying
error messages for mv'ing files created in /tmp to another file
system. mv still preserves the foreign gid of /tmp, but now does
it silently.
buffering scheme and make it more in tune with FreeBSD's vfs_bio
implementation. The filesystem seems fairly stable, but I wouldn't recommend
it to anyone not willing to experience problems. This is very green code and
has the limitation that YOU CAN ONLY HAVE ONE LFS PARTITION MOUNTED AT A TIME.
What LFS is good for:
Non fsynced writes FASTER THAN FFS
Large deletions Increadibly fast
Reads are a little bit slower than FFS right now, but that is a factor of
how under optimized this code is. LFS should in theory perform at least as
well as FFS under fsync (iozone) type loads, and this is what I'm currently
working on.
Reviewed by: Justin Gibbs
Submitted by: John Dyson
Obtained from:
This is part of a bug fix from Kirk McKusick to work around problems in FFS
related to the blkno of a 64bit offset not fitting into an int. Note the
proper solution would be to deal with 64bit block numbers, but doing this
would require sweeping changes; some other day perhaps.
Submitted by: Marshall Kirk McKusick
For it to be useful, you must stick your disklabel on the partition which
starts where the MBR says FreeBSD lives. If you don't do that, you might
get a bad day.
Oh, that probably also means that putting swap there is a bad idea...
- Make a number of filesystems work again when they are statically compiled
(blush)
- FIFOs are no longer optional; ``options FIFO'' removed from distributed
config files.
machdep.c:
Changed printf's a little and call vfs_unmountall() if the sync was
successful.
cd9660_vfsops.c, ffs_vfsops.c, nfs_vfsops.c, lfs_vfsops.c:
Allow dismount of root FS. It is now disallowed at a higher level.
vfs_conf.c:
Removed unused rootfs global.
vfs_subr.c:
Added new routines vfs_unmountall and vfs_unmountroot. Filesystems
are now dismounted if the machine is properly rebooted.
ffs_vfsops.c:
Toggle clean bit at the appropriate places. Print warning if an
unclean FS is mounted.
ffs_vfsops.c, lfs_vfsops.c:
Fix bug in selecting proper flags for VOP_CLOSE().
vfs_syscalls.c:
Disallow dismounting root FS via umount syscall.
use of timeout_t -> timeout_func_t in aha1542 and aha1742 drivers.
2) fix a bug in the portalfs that was uncovered by better prototyping -
specifically, the time must be converted from timeval to timespec
before storing in va_atime.
3) fixed/added some miscellaneous prototypes
- Delete redundant declarations.
- Add -Wredundant-declarations to Makefile.i386 so they don't come back.
- Delete sloppy COMMON-style declarations of uninitialized data in
header files.
- Add a few prototypes.
- Clean up warnings resulting from the above.
NB: ioconf.c will still generate a redundant-declaration warning, which
is unavoidable unless somebody volunteers to make `config' smarter.
use it in NFS. This is required both for diskless support and for POSIX
compliance. Note: the support in NFS is only for the local node.
Submitted by: based on work originally done by Yuval Yurom
