While the KSE project was quite successful in bringing threading to
FreeBSD, the M:N approach taken by the kse library was never developed
to its full potential. Backwards compatibility will be provided via
libmap.conf for dynamically linked binaries and static binaries will
be broken.
bug that caused us to reintroduce it is believed to be fixed, and Kris
says he no longer sees problems with fifofs in highly parallel builds.
If this works out, we'll MFC it for 7.1.
MFC after: 3 months
Pointed out by: kris
conjuction with 'thread' argument passing which is always curthread.
Remove the unuseful extra-argument and pass explicitly curthread to lower
layer functions, when necessary.
KPI results broken by this change, which should affect several ports, so
version bumping and manpage update will be further committed.
Tested by: kris, pho, Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>
Remove this argument and pass curthread directly to underlying
VOP_LOCK1() VFS method. This modify makes the code cleaner and in
particular remove an annoying dependence helping next lockmgr() cleanup.
KPI results, obviously, changed.
Manpage and FreeBSD_version will be updated through further commits.
As a side note, would be valuable to say that next commits will address
a similar cleanup about VFS methods, in particular vop_lock1 and
vop_unlock.
Tested by: Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>,
Andrea Di Pasquale <whyx dot it at gmail dot com>
This makes it possible to support ftruncate() on non-vnode file types in
the future.
- 'struct fileops' grows a 'fo_truncate' method to handle an ftruncate() on
a given file descriptor.
- ftruncate() moves to kern/sys_generic.c and now just fetches a file
object and invokes fo_truncate().
- The vnode-specific portions of ftruncate() move to vn_truncate() in
vfs_vnops.c which implements fo_truncate() for vnode file types.
- Non-vnode file types return EINVAL in their fo_truncate() method.
Submitted by: rwatson
- Introduce a finit() which is used to initailize the fields of struct file
in such a way that the ops vector is only valid after the data, type,
and flags are valid.
- Protect f_flag and f_count with atomic operations.
- Remove the global list of all files and associated accounting.
- Rewrite the unp garbage collection such that it no longer requires
the global list of all files and instead uses a list of all unp sockets.
- Mark sockets in the accept queue so we don't incorrectly gc them.
Tested by: kris, pho
Change the VOP_OPEN(), vn_open() vnode operation and d_fdopen() cdev operation
argument from being file descriptor index into the pointer to struct file.
Proposed and reviewed by: jhb
Reviewed by: daichi (unionfs)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
and flags with an sxlock. This leads to a significant and measurable
performance improvement as a result of access to shared locking for
frequent lookup operations, reduced general overhead, and reduced overhead
in the event of contention. All of these are imported for threaded
applications where simultaneous access to a shared file descriptor array
occurs frequently. Kris has reported 2x-4x transaction rate improvements
on 8-core MySQL benchmarks; smaller improvements can be expected for many
workloads as a result of reduced overhead.
- Generally eliminate the distinction between "fast" and regular
acquisisition of the filedesc lock; the plan is that they will now all
be fast. Change all locking instances to either shared or exclusive
locks.
- Correct a bug (pointed out by kib) in fdfree() where previously msleep()
was called without the mutex held; sx_sleep() is now always called with
the sxlock held exclusively.
- Universally hold the struct file lock over changes to struct file,
rather than the filedesc lock or no lock. Always update the f_ops
field last. A further memory barrier is required here in the future
(discussed with jhb).
- Improve locking and reference management in linux_at(), which fails to
properly acquire vnode references before using vnode pointers. Annotate
improper use of vn_fullpath(), which will be replaced at a future date.
In fcntl(), we conservatively acquire an exclusive lock, even though in
some cases a shared lock may be sufficient, which should be revisited.
The dropping of the filedesc lock in fdgrowtable() is no longer required
as the sxlock can be held over the sleep operation; we should consider
removing that (pointed out by attilio).
Tested by: kris
Discussed with: jhb, kris, attilio, jeff
rather than panicking later. This can occur if the kernel calls
vn_open() on a fifo, as there will be no associated file descriptor,
and therefore the file descriptor operations cannot be modified to
point to the fifo operation set.
MFC after: 3 days
Reported by: Martin <nakal at nurfuerspam dot de>
PR: 94278
a fifo. While this did indeed close the race, confirming suspicions
about the nature of the problem, it causes difficulties with blocking
I/O on fifos.
Discussed with: ups
Also spotted by: Peter Holm <peter at holm dot cc>
that socket during open, not the write socket receive buffer. This
might explain clearing of the sb_state SB_LOCK flag seen occasionally
in soreceive() on fifos.
MFC after: 3 days
Spotted by: ups
underlying the POSIX fifo implementation. In 6.x/7.x, fifo access is
moved from the VFS layer, where it was serialized using the vnode
lock, to the file descriptor layer, where access is protected by a
reference count but not serialized. This exposed socket buffer
locking to high levels of parallelism in specific fifo workloads, such
as make -j 32, which expose as yet unresolved socket buffer bugs.
fi_sx re-adds serialization about the read and write routines,
although not paths that simply test socket buffer mbuf queue state,
such as the poll and kqueue methods. This restores the extra locking
cost previously present in some cases, but is an effective workaround
for the instability that has been experienced. This workaround should
be removed once the bug in socket buffer handling has been fixed.
Reported by: kris, jhb, Julien Gabel <jpeg at thilelli dot net>,
Peter Holm <peter at holm dot cc>, others
MFC after: 3 days
fifo_kqfilter() VOP implementations, since they in theory are used
only on open file descriptors, in which case the ioctls are via
fifo_ioctl_f() and kqueue requests are via fifo_kqfilter_f().
Generate warnings if they are entered for now. These printf()
calls should become panic() calls.
Annotate and re-implement fifo_ioctl_f(): don't arbitrarily
forward ioctls to the socket layer, only forward the ones we
explicitly support for fifos. In the case of FIONREAD, don't
forward the request to the write socket on a read-write fifo, or
the read result is overwritten. Annotate a nasty case for the
undefined POSIX O_RDWR on fifos, in which failure of the second
ioctl will result in the socket pair being in an inconsistent
state.
Assert copyright as I find myself rewriting non-trivial parts of
fifofs.
MFC after: 3 days
be held when entering a kqueue filter for fifos via a socket buffer
event: as such, assert the lock unconditionally rather than acquiring
it conditionall.
MFC after: 3 days
1) fifo_kqfilter() is not actually ever used, it likely should be GC'd.
2) fifo_kqfilter_f() doesn't implement EVFILT_VNODE, so detecting events
on the underlying vnode for a fifo no longer works (it did in 4.x).
Likely, fifo_kqfilter_f() should forward the request to the VFS using
fp->f_vnode, which would work once fifo_kqfilter() was detached from
the vnode operation vector (removing the fifo override).
Discussed with: phk
used when a read filter is requested on a write-only fifo descriptor, or
a write filter is requested on a read-only fifo descriptor. This
permits the filters to be registered, but never raises the event, which
causes kqueue behavior for fifos to more closely match similar semantics
for poll and select, which permit testing for the condition even though
the condition will never be raised, and is consistent with POSIX's notion
that a fifo has identical semantics to a one-way IPC channel created
using pipe() on most operating systems.
The fifo regression test suite can now run to completion on HEAD without
errors.
MFC after: 3 days
according to POSIX, not to mention the fact that it doesn't make sense
(and hence isn't really implemented). This causes the fifo_misc
regression test to succeed.
file descriptor. Otherwise, the read end of a fifo might return that it
is writable (which it isn't).
Only poll the fifo for write events if the fifo attached to a writable
file descriptor. Otherwise, the write end of a fifo might return that
it is readable (which it isn't).
In the event that a file is FREAD|FWRITE (which is allowed by POSIX, but
has undefined behavior), we poll for both.
MFC after: 3 days
to poll the write socket for, the fifo polling code proceeded to poll
for the complete set of events. Use 'levents' instead of 'events' as
the argument to poll, and only poll the write socket if there is
interest in write events.
MFC after: 3 days
while sleeping to allocate fifo state: due to using the vnode lock to
serialize access to a fifo during open, it shouldn't happen (tm).
MFC after: 3 days
the filesystem. Check that rather than VI_XLOCK.
- VOP_INACTIVE should no longer drop the vnode lock.
- The vnode lock is required around calls to vrecycle() and vgone().
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
initializations but we did have lofty goals and big ideals.
Adjust to more contemporary circumstances and gain type checking.
Replace the entire vop_t frobbing thing with properly typed
structures. The only casualty is that we can not add a new
VOP_ method with a loadable module. History has not given
us reason to belive this would ever be feasible in the the
first place.
Eliminate in toto VOCALL(), vop_t, VNODEOP_SET() etc.
Give coda correct prototypes and function definitions for
all vop_()s.
Generate a bit more data from the vnode_if.src file: a
struct vop_vector and protype typedefs for all vop methods.
Add a new vop_bypass() and make vop_default be a pointer
to another struct vop_vector.
Remove a lot of vfs_init since vop_vector is ready to use
from the compiler.
Cast various vop_mumble() to void * with uppercase name,
for instance VOP_PANIC, VOP_NULL etc.
Implement VCALL() by making vdesc_offset the offsetof() the
relevant function pointer in vop_vector. This is disgusting
but since the code is generated by a script comparatively
safe. The alternative for nullfs etc. would be much worse.
Fix up all vnode method vectors to remove casts so they
become typesafe. (The bulk of this is generated by scripts)
a more complete subsystem, and removes the knowlege of how things are
implemented from the drivers. Include locking around filter ops, so a
module like aio will know when not to be unloaded if there are outstanding
knotes using it's filter ops.
Currently, it uses the MTX_DUPOK even though it is not always safe to
aquire duplicate locks. Witness currently doesn't support the ability
to discover if a dup lock is ok (in some cases).
Reviewed by: green, rwatson (both earlier versions)
rwatson_netperf:
Introduce conditional locking of the socket buffer in fifofs kqueue
filters; KNOTE() will be called holding the socket buffer locks in
fifofs, but sometimes the kqueue() system call will poll using the
same entry point without holding the socket buffer lock.
Introduce conditional locking of the socket buffer in the socket
kqueue filters; KNOTE() will be called holding the socket buffer
locks in the socket code, but sometimes the kqueue() system call
will poll using the same entry points without holding the socket
buffer lock.
Simplify the logic in sodisconnect() since we no longer need spls.
NOTE: To remove conditional locking in the kqueue filters, it would
make sense to use a separate kqueue API entry into the socket/fifo
code when calling from the kqueue() system call.
- Lock down low hanging fruit use of sb_flags with socket buffer
lock.
- Lock down low hanging fruit use of so_state with socket lock.
- Lock down low hanging fruit use of so_options.
- Lock down low-hanging fruit use of sb_lowwat and sb_hiwat with
socket buffer lock.
- Annotate situations in which we unlock the socket lock and then
grab the receive socket buffer lock, which are currently actually
the same lock. Depending on how we want to play our cards, we
may want to coallesce these lock uses to reduce overhead.
- Convert a if()->panic() into a KASSERT relating to so_state in
soaccept().
- Remove a number of splnet()/splx() references.
More complex merging of socket and socket buffer locking to
follow.
flags relating to several aspects of socket functionality. This change
breaks out several bits relating to send and receive operation into a
new per-socket buffer field, sb_state, in order to facilitate locking.
This is required because, in order to provide more granular locking of
sockets, different state fields have different locking properties. The
following fields are moved to sb_state:
SS_CANTRCVMORE (so_state)
SS_CANTSENDMORE (so_state)
SS_RCVATMARK (so_state)
Rename respectively to:
SBS_CANTRCVMORE (so_rcv.sb_state)
SBS_CANTSENDMORE (so_snd.sb_state)
SBS_RCVATMARK (so_rcv.sb_state)
This facilitates locking by isolating fields to be located with other
identically locked fields, and permits greater granularity in socket
locking by avoiding storing fields with different locking semantics in
the same short (avoiding locking conflicts). In the future, we may
wish to coallesce sb_state and sb_flags; for the time being I leave
them separate and there is no additional memory overhead due to the
packing/alignment of shorts in the socket buffer structure.
