Now that we've increased the size of our send / receive buffers, bursting
an entire window onto the network may cause congestion. As a result,
we will slow start beginning with a flightsize of 4 packets.
Problem reported by: Thomas Zenker <thz@Lennartz-electronic.de>
MFC after: 3 days
Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.
To use this code you must compile a kernel with
options DEVICE_POLLING
and at runtime enable polling with
sysctl kern.polling.enable=1
The percentage of CPU reserved to userland can be set with
sysctl kern.polling.user_frac=NN (default is 50)
while the remainder is used by polling device drivers and netisr's.
These are the only two variables that you should need to touch. There
are a few more parameters in kern.polling but the default values
are adequate for all purposes. See the code in kern_poll.c for
more details on them.
Polling in the idle loop will be implemented shortly by introducing
a kernel thread which does the job. Until then, the amount of CPU
dedicated to polling will never exceed (100-user_frac).
The equivalent (actually, better) code for -stable is at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/
and also supports polling in the idle loop.
NOTE to Alpha developers:
There is really nothing in this code that is i386-specific.
If you move the 2 lines supporting the new option from
sys/conf/{files,options}.i386 to sys/conf/{files,options} I am
pretty sure that this should work on the Alpha as well, just that
I do not have a suitable test box to try it. If someone feels like
trying it, I would appreciate it.
NOTE to other developers:
sure some things could be done better, and as always I am open to
constructive criticism, which a few of you have already given and
I greatly appreciated.
However, before proposing radical architectural changes, please
take some time to possibly try out this code, or at the very least
read the comments in kern_poll.c, especially re. the reason why I
am using a soft netisr and cannot (I believe) replace it with a
simple timeout.
Quick description of files touched by this commit:
sys/conf/files.i386
new file kern/kern_poll.c
sys/conf/options.i386
new option
sys/i386/i386/trap.c
poll in trap (disabled by default)
sys/kern/kern_clock.c
initialization and hardclock hooks.
sys/kern/kern_intr.c
minor swi_net changes
sys/kern/kern_poll.c
the bulk of the code.
sys/net/if.h
new flag
sys/net/if_var.h
declaration for functions used in device drivers.
sys/net/netisr.h
NETISR_POLL
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxpvar.h
sys/pci/if_dc.c
sys/pci/if_dcreg.h
sys/pci/if_sis.c
sys/pci/if_sisreg.h
device driver modifications
A similar thing has been in -stable for weeks and is completely safe.
This has very good performance implications as it saves some data
copying, and sometimes avoids triggering performance bugs in devices
(such as the "dc" and other Tulip clones) which do not like scattered
data.
(which somehow now seems to be the default for compiling -current).
This error popped up while doing a PicoBSD cross-compile on a 4.3-ish system,
it may well be that there are other apps which have similar problems,
but I did not spot them as they are not included in my picobsd config.
Whether adding prototypes for main() is the correct solution or not
I have no idea, a request to -current on the matter went basically
unanswered. Those who have better ideas are welcome to back this out
and replace it with the correct fix.
We don't install dot.nsmbrc or smbfs.sh.sample, since we already install
the former as /etc/nsmb.conf and the latter is unnecessary, since
boot-time mounts can be arranged directly within /etc/fstab without fear
of breaking the boot when the smbfs port (now unnecessary is removed).
The MFC reminder below is subject to <re@FreeBSD.org> approval
priod to 4.5-RELEASE.
MFC after: 1 week
for use on machines with untrusted local users, for security as well
as stability reasons.
o Lack of clarity pointed out by: David Rufino <dr@soniq.net> via bugtraq.
When a positively niced process requests a disk I/O, make
it wait for its nice value of ticks before scheduling its
I/O request if there are any other processes with I/O
requests in the disk queue. For all the gory details, see
the ``Running fsck in the Background'' paper in the Usenix
BSDCon 2002 Conference Proceedings, pages 55-64.
When a positively niced process requests a disk I/O, make
it wait for its nice value of ticks before scheduling its
I/O request if there are any other processes with I/O
requests in the disk queue. For all the gory details, see
the ``Running fsck in the Background'' paper in the Usenix
BSDCon 2002 Conference Proceedings, pages 55-64.
commit by Kirk also fixed a softupdates bug that could easily be triggered
by server side NFS.
* An edge case with shared R+W mmap()'s and truncate whereby
the system would inappropriately clear the dirty bits on
still-dirty data. (applicable to all filesystems)
THIS FIX TEMPORARILY DISABLED PENDING FURTHER TESTING.
see vm/vm_page.c line 1641
* The straddle case for VM pages and buffer cache buffers when
truncating. (applicable to NFS client side)
* Possible SMP database corruption due to vm_pager_unmap_page()
not clearing the TLB for the other cpu's. (applicable to NFS
client side but could effect all filesystems). Note: not
considered serious since the corruption occurs beyond the file
EOF.
* When flusing a dirty buffer due to B_CACHE getting cleared,
we were accidently setting B_CACHE again (that is, bwrite() sets
B_CACHE), when we really want it to stay clear after the write
is complete. This resulted in a corrupt buffer. (applicable
to all filesystems but probably only triggered by NFS)
* We have to call vtruncbuf() when ftruncate()ing to remove
any buffer cache buffers. This is still tentitive, I may
be able to remove it due to the second bug fix. (applicable
to NFS client side)
* vnode_pager_setsize() race against nfs_vinvalbuf()... we have
to set n_size before calling nfs_vinvalbuf or the NFS code
may recursively vnode_pager_setsize() to the original value
before the truncate. This is what was causing the user mmap
bus faults in the nfs tester program. (applicable to NFS
client side)
* Fix to softupdates (see ufs/ffs/ffs_inode.c 1.73, commit made
by Kirk).
Testing program written by: Avadis Tevanian, Jr.
Testing program supplied by: jkh / Apple (see Dec2001 posting to freebsd-hackers with Subject 'NFS: How to make FreeBS fall on its face in one easy step')
MFC after: 1 week
"top" does (thinking of it, i could have as well used the same format line!)
This only makes sense when "-w" option is also specified, because the
load is computed as the difference between subsequent samples.
I think this (and the "-d" feature which shows differences in the
network statistics counts) would also make sense in the standard
vmstat and netstat.
