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.
This fixes PR943.
ffs/ffs_vfsops.c:
ffs_statfs() multiplied by (100 - minfree) as part of calculating the
minfree percentage (complemented in 100%), so with the standard minfree
of 8, it was broken for file systems of size >= 1TB/92 = 11GB. Use the
standard freespace() macro instead. This also fixes a rounding bug (the
"Avail" count was sometimes 1 too small).
ffs/* (not fixed):
The freespace() macro multiplies by minfree, so with the standard
minfree of 8, it is broken for file systems of size >= 1TB/8 = 128GB.
This bug is more serious since it affects block allocation.
ffs/ffs_alloc.c (not fixed):
Ordinary users are sometimes allowed to allocate 1 (partial) block
too many so that the "Avail" count goes negative. E.g., if there is
1 fragment available and the file is fairly large, one more full
block is allocated.
df/df.c:
ufs_df() used/uses essentially the same code as ffs_statfs(), so it
had/has the same bugs.
ufs_df() gratuitously replaced "Avail" counts of < 0 by 0, so it
gave different results for non-mounted file systems in this case.
is possible to boot a kernel with an empty in-core MFS image, and have
it load the image from floppy directly. This is admittedly a hack and
would be better replaced by a self-loading ram-disk.
What was happening, was that the main mfs loop was sleeping, and when it was
being awoken by a wakeup when it was supposed to process some IO requests.
The problem was that if it was being woken out of the tsleep() by a signal
at shutdown, it was going straight into dounmount() without servicing any
pending IO requests, causing dounmount() to fail because there were busy
buffers (and they could not be "processed" because the processing loop was
trying to unmount rather than dispatching into mfs_doio()).
This (dare I say it :-) appears to be a layering problem....
1) Make cluster buffer list be a non-malloced chain. This eliminates
yet another 'evil' M_WAITOK and generally cleans up the code.
2) Fix write clustering for ext2fs. It was just broken. Also, ffs
clustering had an efficiency problem that more bawrites were happening
than should have been.
3) Make changes to buf.h to support the above, plus remove b_pfcent
at the request of David Greenman.
Note that the reallocblocks code is disabled pending rewrite for
the cluster buffer list changes.
structs and prototypes for syscalls.
Ifdefed duplicated decentralized declarations of args structs. It's
convenient to have this visible but they are hard to maintain. Some
are already different from the central declarations. 4.4lite2 puts
them in comments in the function headers but I wanted to avoid the
large changes for that.
it 1138 times (:-() in casts and a few more times in declarations.
This change is null for the i386.
The type has to be `typedef int vop_t(void *)' and not `typedef
int vop_t()' because `gcc -Wstrict-prototypes' warns about the
latter. Since vnode op functions are called with args of different
(struct pointer) types, neither of these function types is any use
for type checking of the arg, so it would be preferable not to use
the complete function type, especially since using the complete
type requires adding 1138 casts to avoid compiler warnings and
another 40+ casts to reverse the function pointer conversions before
calling the functions.
earlier discussions with DG, and a recent email exchange with SEF, I
decided to allow UFS to run wide-open on an experimental basis. We
will probably support eventually multiple async modes, and this is
the fastest the we can expect. Just use the -o async flag on the
UFS mount. Good luck...
dangerous than the original MNT_ASYNC. There might be some minor
security considerations due to data writes not being posted as promptly
as before. Meta-data operations are still not quite as fast as Linux,
but streaming I/O is still higher.
filesystem layer, as was done in lite-2. Merged in some other cosmetic
changes while I was at it. Rewrote most of msdosfs_access() to be more
like ufs_access() and to include the FS read-only check.
Obtained from: partially from 4.4BSD-lite2
fix a change where a shortcut resulted in teh wrong answer..
e.g.
touch a
touch b
mv a b
resulted in b being removed and a being moved to b
in the shortcut..
touch a
ln a b
mv a b
the wrong link was removed..
leaving a instead of b, giving a different result to when
both files were separate.
