MADV_DONTNEED) and madvise(..., MADV_FREE). Specifically, introduce a new
pmap function, pmap_advise(), that operates on a range of virtual addresses
within the specified pmap, allowing for a more efficient implementation of
MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE. Previously, the implementation of
MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE relied on per-page pmap operations, such as
pmap_clear_reference(). Intuitively, the problem with this implementation
is that the pmap-level locks are acquired and released and the page table
traversed repeatedly, once for each resident page in the range
that was specified to madvise(2). A more subtle flaw with the previous
implementation is that pmap_clear_reference() would clear the reference bit
on all mappings to the specified page, not just the mapping in the range
specified to madvise(2).
Since our malloc(3) makes heavy use of madvise(2), this change can have a
measureable impact. For example, the system time for completing a parallel
"buildworld" on a 6-core amd64 machine was reduced by about 1.5% to 2.0%.
Note: This change only contains pmap_advise() implementations for a subset
of our supported architectures. I will commit implementations for the
remaining architectures after further testing. For now, a stub function is
sufficient because of the advisory nature of pmap_advise().
Discussed with: jeff, jhb, kib
Tested by: pho (i386), marcel (ia64)
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reclaim the last preexisting cached page in the object, resulting in a call
to vdrop(). Detect this scenario so that the vnode's hold count is
correctly maintained. Otherwise, we panic.
Reported by: scottl
Tested by: pho
Discussed with: attilio, jeff, kib
which is the part of struct vmspace, allocated from UMA_ZONE_NOFREE
zone. Initialize the pmap lock in the vmspace zone init function, and
remove pmap lock initialization and destruction from pmap_pinit() and
pmap_release().
Suggested and reviewed by: alc (previous version)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
The flag was mandatory since r209792, where vm_page_grab(9) was
changed to only support the alloc retry semantic.
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
necessary since we do not free or cache the page from active anymore.
Document the one possible race that is harmless.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Discussed with: alc
shown to negatively impact some workloads and the goal is only to
eliminate worst case behaviors for very long periods of paging
inactivity. Eventually we should determine a more complex scaling
factor for this feature.
- Rate limit low memory callback handlers to limit thrashing. Set the
default to 10 seconds.
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that don't support superpages. This keeps the number of spans and internal
fragmentation lower.
- When the user asks for alignment from vmem_xalloc adjust the imported size
by 2*align to be certain we can satisfy the allocation. This comes at
the expense of potential failures when the backend can't supply enough
memory but could supply the requested size and alignment.
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address alignment of mappings.
- MAP_ALIGNED(n) requests a mapping aligned on a boundary of (1 << n).
Requests for n >= number of bits in a pointer or less than the size of
a page fail with EINVAL. This matches the API provided by NetBSD.
- MAP_ALIGNED_SUPER is a special case of MAP_ALIGNED. It can be used
to optimize the chances of using large pages. By default it will align
the mapping on a large page boundary (the system is free to choose any
large page size to align to that seems best for the mapping request).
However, if the object being mapped is already using large pages, then
it will align the virtual mapping to match the existing large pages in
the object instead.
- Internally, VMFS_ALIGNED_SPACE is now renamed to VMFS_SUPER_SPACE, and
VMFS_ALIGNED_SPACE(n) is repurposed for specifying a specific alignment.
MAP_ALIGNED(n) maps to using VMFS_ALIGNED_SPACE(n), while
MAP_ALIGNED_SUPER maps to VMFS_SUPER_SPACE.
- mmap() of a device object now uses VMFS_OPTIMAL_SPACE rather than
explicitly using VMFS_SUPER_SPACE. All device objects are forced to
use a specific color on creation, so VMFS_OPTIMAL_SPACE is effectively
equivalent.
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 month
wired, unwind back the wiring bits otherwise we can end up freeing a
page that is considered wired.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reported by: alc
maintaining better LRU of active pages.
- Change v_free_target to include the quantity previously represented by
v_cache_min so we don't need to add them together everywhere we use them.
- Add a pageout_wakeup_thresh that sets the free page count trigger for
waking the page daemon. Set this 10% above v_free_min so we wakeup before
any phase transitions in vm users.
- Adjust down v_free_target now that we're willing to accept more pagedaemon
wakeups. This means we process fewer pages in one iteration as well,
leading to shorter lock hold times and less overall disruption.
- Eliminate vm_pageout_page_stats(). This was a minor variation on the
PQ_ACTIVE segment of the normal pageout daemon. Instead we now process
1 / vm_pageout_update_period pages every second. This causes us to visit
the whole active list every 60 seconds. Previously we would only maintain
the active LRU when we were short on pages which would mean it could be
woefully out of date.
Reviewed by: alc (slight variant of this)
Discussed with: alc, kib, jhb
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
what is really needed on this code snipped is that all the pages that
are already fully inserted gets fully freed, while for the others the
object removal itself might be skipped, hence the object might be set to
NULL.
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Reported by: alc, kib
Reviewed by: alc
additional information, when the page is guaranteed to not belong to a
paging queue. Usually, this results in a lot of type casts which make
reasoning about the code correctness harder.
Sometimes m->object is used instead of pageq, which could cause real
and confusing bugs if non-NULL m->object is leaked. See r141955 and
r253140 for examples.
Change the pageq member into a union containing explicitly-typed
members. Use them instead of type-punning or abusing m->object in x86
pmaps, uma and vm_page_alloc_contig().
Requested and reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
for nodes used in vm_radix.
On architectures supporting direct mapping, also avoid to pre-allocate
the KVA for such nodes.
In order to do so make the operations derived from vm_radix_insert()
to fail and handle all the deriving failure of those.
vm_radix-wise introduce a new function called vm_radix_replace(),
which can replace a leaf node, already present, with a new one,
and take into account the possibility, during vm_radix_insert()
allocation, that the operations on the radix trie can recurse.
This means that if operations in vm_radix_insert() recursed
vm_radix_insert() will start from scratch again.
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Reviewed by: alc (older version)
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho, scottl
Unify the 2 concept into a real, minimal, sxlock where the shared
acquisition represent the soft busy and the exclusive acquisition
represent the hard busy.
The old VPO_WANTED mechanism becames the hard-path for this new lock
and it becomes per-page rather than per-object.
The vm_object lock becames an interlock for this functionality:
it can be held in both read or write mode.
However, if the vm_object lock is held in read mode while acquiring
or releasing the busy state, the thread owner cannot make any
assumption on the busy state unless it is also busying it.
Also:
- Add a new flag to directly shared busy pages while vm_page_alloc
and vm_page_grab are being executed. This will be very helpful
once these functions happen under a read object lock.
- Move the swapping sleep into its own per-object flag
The KPI is heavilly changed this is why the version is bumped.
It is very likely that some VM ports users will need to change
their own code.
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Discussed with: alc
Reviewed by: jeff, kib
Tested by: gavin, bapt (older version)
Tested by: pho, scottl
into threads each processing queue in a single domain. The structure
of the pagedaemons and queues is kept intact, most of the changes come
from the need for code to find an owning page queue for given page,
calculated from the segment containing the page.
The tie between NUMA domain and pagedaemon thread/pagequeue split is
rather arbitrary, the multithreaded daemon could be allowed for the
single-domain machines, or one domain might be split into several page
domains, to further increase concurrency.
Right now, each pagedaemon thread tries to reach the global target,
precalculated at the start of the pass. This is not optimal, since it
could cause excessive page deactivation and freeing. The code should
be changed to re-check the global page deficit state in the loop after
some number of iterations.
The pagedaemons reach the quorum before starting the OOM, since one
thread inability to meet the target is normal for split queues. Only
when all pagedaemons fail to produce enough reusable pages, OOM is
started by single selected thread.
Launder is modified to take into account the segments layout with
regard to the region for which cleaning is performed.
Based on the preliminary patch by jeff, sponsored by EMC / Isilon
Storage Division.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
transparent layering and better fragmentation.
- Normalize functions that allocate memory to use kmem_*
- Those that allocate address space are named kva_*
- Those that operate on maps are named kmap_*
- Implement recursive allocation handling for kmem_arena in vmem.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
We cannot busy a page before doing pagefaults.
Infact, it can deadlock against vnode lock, as it tries to vget().
Other functions, right now, have an opposite lock ordering, like
vm_object_sync(), which acquires the vnode lock first and then
sleeps on the busy mechanism.
Before this patch is reinserted we need to break this ordering.
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Reported by: kib
- It does not let pages respect the LRU policy
- It bloats the active/inactive queues of few pages
Try to avoid it as much as possible with the long-term target to
completely remove it.
Use the soft-busy mechanism to protect page content accesses during
short-term operations (like uiomove_fromphys()).
After this change only vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() is still using the
hold mechanism for page content access.
There is an additional complexity there as the quick path cannot
immediately access the page object to busy the page and the slow path
cannot however busy more than one page a time (to avoid deadlocks).
Fixing such primitive can bring to complete removal of the page hold
mechanism.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: alc
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
- Don't short-circuit aging tests for unmapped objects. This biases
against unmapped file pages and transient mappings.
- Always honor PGA_REFERENCED. We can now use this after soft busying
to lazily restart the LRU.
- Don't transition directly from active to cached bypassing the inactive
queue. This frees recently used data much too early.
- Rename actcount to act_delta to be more consistent with use and meaning.
Reviewed by: kib, alc
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
locks don't accidentally appear to have been already
initialized.
In particular, this fixes a consistent kernel crash on
armv6 with:
panic: lock "vm map (user)" 0xc09cc050 already initialized
that appeared with r251709.
PR: arm/180820
Also directly call swapper() at the end of mi_startup instead of
relying on swapper being the last thing in sysinits order.
Rationale:
- "RUN_SCHEDULER" was misleading, scheduling already takes place at that stage
- "scheduler" was misleading, the function swaps in the swapped out processes
- another SYSINIT(SI_SUB_RUN_SCHEDULER, SI_ORDER_ANY) could never be
invoked depending on its relative order with scheduler; this was not obvious
and the bug actually used to exist
Reviewed by: kib (ealier version)
MFC after: 14 days
The racct code in sys_munlock() assumed that the boundaries provided by the
userland were correct as long as vm_map_unwire() returned successfully.
However the latter contains its own logic and sometimes manages to do something
out of those boundaries, even if they are buggy. This change makes the racct
code to use the accounting done by the vm layer, as it is done in other places
such as vm_mlock().
Despite fixing the panic, Alan Cox pointed that this code is still race-y
though: two simultaneous callers will produce incorrect values.
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 7 days
- Add a new address space allocation method (VMFS_OPTIMAL_SPACE) for
vm_map_find() that will try to alter the alignment of a mapping to match
any existing superpage mappings of the object being mapped. If no
suitable address range is found with the necessary alignment,
vm_map_find() will fall back to using the simple first-fit strategy
(VMFS_ANY_SPACE).
- Change mmap() without MAP_FIXED, shmat(), and the GEM mapping ioctl to
use VMFS_OPTIMAL_SPACE instead of VMFS_ANY_SPACE.
Reviewed by: alc (earlier version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
to drain the reserve. This was broken in r243040, causing deadlock.
Note that VM_WAIT call in case of uma_zalloc() failure from pagedaemon
would only wait for the v_pageout_free_min anyway.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
is being wired now. The entry wired count is changed to non-zero in
advance, before the map lock is dropped. This makes the vm_fault() to
perceive the entry as wired, and breaks the fragment which moves the
wire count from the shadowed page, to the upper page, making the code
unwiring non-wired page.
On the other hand, the vm_fault() calls from vm_fault_wire() should be
allowed to proceed, so only drain MAP_ENTRY_IN_TRANSITION from
vm_fault() when wiring_thread is not current.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
parallel creation of the map entries, e.g. by mmap() or stack growing.
It also breaks when other entry is wired in parallel.
The vm_map_wire() iterates over the map entries in the region, and
assumes that map entries it finds are marked as in transition before,
also that any entry marked as in transition, are marked by the current
invocation of vm_map_wire(). This is not true for new entries in the
holes.
Add the thread owner of the MAP_ENTRY_IN_TRANSITION flag to struct
vm_map_entry. In vm_map_wire() and vm_map_unwire(), only process the
entries which transition owner is the current thread.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
msync(MS_INVALIDATE). The vm_fault_copy_entry() requires that object
range which corresponds to the user-wired vm_map_entry, is always
fully populated.
Add OBJPR_NOTWIRED flag for vm_object_page_remove() to request the
preserving behaviour, use it when calling vm_object_page_remove() from
vm_object_sync().
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
not busy, since its only caller brelse() can legitimately call it on
busy page. This happens for VOP_PUTPAGES() on filesystems that use
buffers and which VOP_WRITE() method marked the buffer containing page
as non-cacheable.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
reset by pmap_page_init() right after being initialized in vm_page_initfake().
The statement above is with reference to the amd64 implementation of
pmap_page_init().
Fix this by calling 'pmap_page_init()' in 'vm_page_initfake()' before changing
the 'memattr'.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
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
through bucket_alloc() to uma_zalloc_arg() and uma_zfree_arg().
- Make some smaller buckets for large zones to further reduce memory
waste.
- Implement uma_zone_reserve(). This holds aside a number of items only
for callers who specify M_USE_RESERVE. buckets will never be filled
from reserve allocations.
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