too much kernel copying, but it is not the right way to do it, and it is
in the way for straightening out the buffer cache.
The right way is to pass the VM page array down through the struct
bio to the disk device driver and DMA directly in to/out off the
physical memory. Once the VM/buf thing is sorted out it is next on
the list.
Retire most of vnode method. ffs_getpages(). It is not clear if what is
left shouldn't be in the default implementation which we now fall back to.
Retire specfs_getpages() as well, as it has no users now.
Completely remove the remaining EFI includes and add our own (type)
definitions instead. While here, abstract more of the internals by
providing interface functions.
Analogous to the drive level, give each volume and plex a worker thread
that picks up and processes incoming and completed BIOs.
This should fix the data corruption issues that have come up a few
weeks ago and improve performance, especially of RAID5 plexes.
The volume level needs a little work, though.
- Add "Hardware Support" section and move device driver-related
items there.
- Move "Multimedia Support" and "Network Interface Support" into
the "Hardware Support" section as sub-sections.
- Move Netgraph-related items to "Network Protocols".
For translators: many items are moved but the contents
are not changed.
to 4.0 and RELENG_3), the BTX mini-kernel used paging rather than flat
mode and clients were limited to a virtual address space of 16 megabytes.
Because of this limitation, boot2 silently masked all physical addresses
in any binaries it loaded so that they were always loaded into the first
16 Meg. Since BTX no longer has this limitation (and hasn't for a long
time), remove the masking from boot2. This allows boot2 to load kernels
larger than about 12 to 14 meg (12 for non-PAE, 14 for PAE).
Submitted by: Sergey Lyubka devnull at uptsoft dot com
MFC after: 1 month
EFI headers and put them all in <machine/fpu.h>. The Intel EFI headers
conflict with the Intel ACPI headers (duplicate type definitions), so
are being phased out in the kernel.
These normally only manifest if the ndis compat module is statically
compiled into a kernel image by way of 'options NDISAPI'.
Submitted by: Dmitri Nikulin
Approved by: wpaul
PR: kern/71449
MFC after: 1 week
but it's disconnected from the build. Remove it from the architecture
independent release documentation set, because it breaks "make release"
when NODOC is undefined.
Reviewed by: hrs
