pf by default does not do per-table address accounting unless the
"counters" keyword is specified in the corresponding pf.conf table
definition. Yet, we always allocate 12 per-CPU counters per table. For
large tables this carries a lot of overhead, so only allocate counters
when they will actually be used.
A further enhancement might be to use a dedicated UMA zone to allocate
counter arrays for table entries, since close to half of the structure
size comes from counter pointers. A related issue is the cost of
zeroing counters, since counter_u64_zero() calls smp_rendezvous() on
some architectures.
Reported by: loos, Jim Pingle <jimp@netgate.com>
Reviewed by: kp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24803
for custom vendor-specific changes to FreeBSD's
default settings.
While here, fix a typo: perfomance -> performance
PR: 245404
Submitted by: Jose Luis Duran
Save and restore (also known as suspend and resume) permits a snapshot
to be taken of a guest's state that can later be resumed. In the
current implementation, bhyve(8) creates a UNIX domain socket that is
used by bhyvectl(8) to send a request to save a snapshot (and
optionally exit after the snapshot has been taken). A snapshot
currently consists of two files: the first holds a copy of guest RAM,
and the second file holds other guest state such as vCPU register
values and device model state.
To resume a guest, bhyve(8) must be started with a matching pair of
command line arguments to instantiate the same set of device models as
well as a pointer to the saved snapshot.
While the current implementation is useful for several uses cases, it
has a few limitations. The file format for saving the guest state is
tied to the ABI of internal bhyve structures and is not
self-describing (in that it does not communicate the set of device
models present in the system). In addition, the state saved for some
device models closely matches the internal data structures which might
prove a challenge for compatibility of snapshot files across a range
of bhyve versions. The file format also does not currently support
versioning of individual chunks of state. As a result, the current
file format is not a fixed binary format and future revisions to save
and restore will break binary compatiblity of snapshot files. The
goal is to move to a more flexible format that adds versioning,
etc. and at that point to commit to providing a reasonable level of
compatibility. As a result, the current implementation is not enabled
by default. It can be enabled via the WITH_BHYVE_SNAPSHOT=yes option
for userland builds, and the kernel option BHYVE_SHAPSHOT.
Submitted by: Mihai Tiganus, Flavius Anton, Darius Mihai
Submitted by: Elena Mihailescu, Mihai Carabas, Sergiu Weisz
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: University Politehnica of Bucharest
Sponsored by: Matthew Grooms (student scholarships)
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19495
- Abbreviated month name in .Dd
- position of HISTORY section
- alphabetical ordering within SEE ALSO section
- adding .Ed before .Sh DESCRIPTION
- remove trailing whitespaces
- Line break after a sentence stop
- Use BSD OS macros instead of hardcoded strings
No .Dd bumps as there was no actual content change made
in any of these pages.
Submitted by: Gordon Bergling gbergling_gmail.com
Approved by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24591
This option was added as a transition aide when symbol versioning was
first added. It was enabled by default in 2007 and is supported even
by the old GPLv2 binutils. Trying to disable it currently fails to
build in libc and at this point it isn't worth fixing the build.
Reported by: Michael Dexter
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24637
Gordon Bergling. Hook it up to the build by adding
it to the Makefile.
Submitted by: gbergling_gmail.com
Approved by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24589
I hope to extend this with some more detail in the future but it gives
a good starting point.
Thanks to 0mp for assistance with markup.
Reviewed by: jkoshy
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23982
I intend to document FreeBSD's ELF notes (see review D23982), but start
with a section documenting the format of the note section itself.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
It does extremely useful things like execute sendmail and spew dubiously
accurate factoids.
From the feedback, it seems like it is an essential utility in a modern unix
and not at all a useless bikeshed. How do those Linux people live without it?
Reverts r358561.
