Previously, the syncer process was the only process in the
system that could process the soft updates background work
list. If enough other processes were adding requests to that
list, it would eventually grow without bound. Because some of
the work list requests require vnodes to be locked, it was
not generally safe to let random processes process the work
list while they already held vnodes locked. By adding a flag
to the work list queue processing function to indicate whether
the calling process could safely lock vnodes, it becomes possible
to co-opt other processes into helping out with the work list.
Now when the worklist gets too large, other processes can safely
help out by picking off those work requests that can be handled
without locking a vnode, leaving only the small number of
requests requiring a vnode lock for the syncer process. With
this change, it appears possible to keep even the nastiest
workloads under control.
Submitted by: Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
was not atomic. We now make sure that we free the ext buf if the reference
count is about to reach 0 but also make sure that nobody else has done it
before us.
While I'm here, change refcnt to u_int (from long). This fixes a compiler
warning regarding use of atomic_cmpset_long on i386.
Submitted by: jasone
Reviewed by: jlemon, jake
- Remove redundant header-type-specific support in the cardbus pcibus
clone. The bridges don't need this anymore.
- Use pcib_get_bus instead of the deprecated pci_get_secondarybus.
- Implement read/write ivar support for the pccbb, and teach it how
to report its secondary bus number. Save the subsidiary bus number
as well, although we don't use it yet.
- Break out the /dev/pci driver into a separate file.
- Kill the COMPAT_OLDPCI support.
- Make the EISA bridge attach a bit more like the old code; explicitly
check for the existence of eisa0/isa0 and only attach if they don't
already exist. Only make one bus_generic_attach() pass over the
bridge, once both busses are attached. Note that the stupid Intel
bridge's class is entirely unpredictable.
- Add prototypes and re-layout the core PCI modules in line with
current coding standards (not a major whitespace change, just moving
the module data to the top of the file).
- Remove redundant type-2 bridge support from the core PCI code; the
PCI-CardBus code does this itself internally. Remove the now
entirely redundant header-class-specific support, as well as the
secondary and subordinate bus number fields. These are bridge
attributes now.
- Add support for PCI Extended Capabilities.
- Add support for PCI Power Management. The interface currently
allows a driver to query and set the power state of a device.
- Add helper functions to allow drivers to enable/disable busmastering
and the decoding of I/O and memory ranges.
- Use PCI_SLOTMAX and PCI_FUNCMAX rather than magic numbers in some
places.
- Make the PCI-PCI bridge code a little more paranoid about valid
I/O and memory decodes.
- Add some more PCI register definitions for the command and status
registers. Correct another bogus definition for type-1 bridges.
PADI packet contains a NULL service. This is apparently the desired
behaviour in this case, though we only allow advertising one
service. You could run multiple pppoeds to advertise multiple services.
of explicit calls to lockmgr. Also provides macros for the flags
pased to specify shared, exclusive or release which map to the
lockmgr flags. This is so that the use of lockmgr can be easily
replaced with optimized reader-writer locks.
- Add some locking that I missed the first time.
This clears out my outstanding netgraph changes.
There is a netgraph change of design in the offing and this is to some
extent a superset of soem of the new functionality and some of the old
functionality that may be removed.
This code works as before, but allows some new features that I want to
work with and evaluate. It is the basis for a version of netgraph
with integral locking for SMP use.
This is running on my test machine with no new problems :-)
present, this is limited to turning on the packet option if any of
disk slices begin above cylinder 1023. The effect of this change
should therefore be to automatically enable LBA support, as needed,
when installing FreeBSD.
Something-of-the-kind-requested-by: peter
