1. The pageout daemon used to block under certain
circumstances, and we needed to add new functionality
that would cause the pageout daemon to block more often.
Now, the pageout daemon mostly just gets rid of pages
and kills processes when the system is out of swap.
The swapping, rss limiting and object cache trimming
have been folded into a new daemon called "vmdaemon".
This new daemon does things that need to be done for
the VM system, but can block. For example, if the
vmdaemon blocks for memory, the pageout daemon
can take care of it. If the pageout daemon had
blocked for memory, it was difficult to handle
the situation correctly (and in some cases, was
impossible).
2. The collapse problem has now been entirely fixed.
It now appears to be impossible to accumulate unnecessary
vm objects. The object collapsing now occurs when ref counts
drop to one (where it is more likely to be more simple anyway
because less pages would be out on disk.) The original
fixes were incomplete in that pathological circumstances
could still be contrived to cause uncontrolled growth
of swap. Also, the old code still, under steady state
conditions, used more swap space than necessary. When
using the new code, users will generally notice a
significant decrease in swap space usage, and theoretically,
the system should be leaving fewer unused pages around
competing for memory.
Submitted by: John Dyson
and into ether_input(). It was silly to have bpf want this one way and
ether_input want it another way. Ripped out trailer support from the few
remaining drivers that still had it.
1) make #includes correct
2) fix bugs in address check macros
3) fixed bugs in, and enabled, recopy if heavily fragmented code
4) moved call to bpf tap to be before enqueing packet (probably gratuitous)
5) fixed bug that caused "abnormal interrupt" at boot time/first use
6) added support for reading Zynx address ROM
7) fixed bug that caused broadcasts to not work shortly after booting (only
manifested if not using multicast - e.g. not in FreeBSD 2.0)
8) fixed spelling errors in comments
Submitted by: Matt Thomas
Subject: Mea culpa -- small fix for netboot fixes
In accordance with the unavoidable principle sof Murphy's Law, I discovered
that the fixes I recently contributed for the netboot code had some small
flaws in them. Two of them were just typos and had no effect on how the
program functioned. The other one was a missing line from the rootopts and
swapopts functions I created in bootmenu.c, which was supposed to initialize
the NFS sotype flag. It defaults to UDP, and you can change it to TCP with
the rootopts or swapopts commands, but then you can't change it back again.
I originally had a line at the top of each function to reinitialize this
flag, but somehow it got lost in the shuffle, probably because I don't
actually have a need for that flag yet.
Submitted by: wpaul
That was the good news. The bad news is that bad144 is a proper mess,
and I don't have time to fix it now, so you will probably not be able to
use it anyway.
Sorry guys, go out and buy a 100Mb IDE drive and a paddleboard :-(
If somebody wants to pick up on this: bad144 needs to learn how to
stay inside our slice of the disk. That's the trick.
Go to a single dependancy in files.i386. Using a .c file for the
sequencer code won't work since I need to know the size of the program,
so we just include the generated .h file as:
"../../sys/gnu/misc/aic7770/aic7770_seq.h"
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instead. The entire scheme just doesn't work as envisioned (hint: think
about make depend as well as all). Those extremely rare individuals who
actually hack on the sequencer code will know how to keep stuff in sync,
I *do* get the feeling!
Somehow, I don't think this stuff was tested at all! :-(
I really hope that it actually works, though my hopes are steadily diminishing.
Anyone with 27xx/28xx boards in -current is *strongly encouraged* to give this
stuff a shot! Otherwise, I suspect that we'll be punting this out of
2.0. I haven't found a single part of Justin's commit that wasn't broken
in some way.
