- provide an interface (macros) to the page coloring part of the VM system,
this allows to try different coloring algorithms without the need to
touch every file [1]
- make the page queue tuning values readable: sysctl vm.stats.pagequeue
- autotuning of the page coloring values based upon the cache size instead
of options in the kernel config (disabling of the page coloring as a
kernel option is still possible)
MD changes:
- detection of the cache size: only IA32 and AMD64 (untested) contains
cache size detection code, every other arch just comes with a dummy
function (this results in the use of default values like it was the
case without the autotuning of the page coloring)
- print some more info on Intel CPU's (like we do on AMD and Transmeta
CPU's)
Note to AMD owners (IA32 and AMD64): please run "sysctl vm.stats.pagequeue"
and report if the cache* values are zero (= bug in the cache detection code)
or not.
Based upon work by: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> [1]
Reviewed by: alc, arch (in 2004)
Discussed with: alc, Chad David, arch (in 2004)
fs.first_object->flags & OBJ_NEEDGIANT test that was missed in an earlier
revision. This fixes mutex assertion failures in the debug.mpsafevm=0
case.
Reported by: ps
MFC after: 3 days
underlying vnode requires Giant.
- In vm_fault only acquire Giant if the underlying object has NEEDSGIANT
set.
- In vm_object_shadow inherit the NEEDSGIANT flag from the backing object.
- Use VFS_LOCK_GIANT() rather than directly acquiring giant in places
where giant is only held because vfs requires it.
Sponsored By: Isilon Systems, Inc.
flag and busy field with the global page queues lock to synchronizing their
access with the containing object's lock. Specifically, acquire the
containing object's lock before reading the page's PG_BUSY flag and busy
field in vm_fault().
Reviewed by: tegge@
on entry and it assumes the responsibility for releasing the page queues
lock if it must sleep.
Remove a bogus comment from pmap_enter_quick().
Using the first change, modify vm_map_pmap_enter() so that the page queues
lock is acquired and released once, rather than each time that a page
is mapped.
In such cases, the busying of the page and the unlocking of the
containing object by vm_map_pmap_enter() and vm_fault_prefault() is
unnecessary overhead. To eliminate this overhead, this change
modifies pmap_enter_quick() so that it expects the object to be locked
on entry and it assumes the responsibility for busying the page and
unlocking the object if it must sleep. Note: alpha, amd64, i386 and
ia64 are the only implementations optimized by this change; arm,
powerpc, and sparc64 still conservatively busy the page and unlock the
object within every pmap_enter_quick() call.
Additionally, this change is the first case where we synchronize
access to the page's PG_BUSY flag and busy field using the containing
object's lock rather than the global page queues lock. (Modifications
to the page's PG_BUSY flag and busy field have asserted both locks for
several weeks, enabling an incremental transition.)
manipulating a vnode, e.g., calling vput(). This reduces contention for
Giant during many copy-on-write faults, resulting in some additional
speedup on SMPs.
Note: debug_mpsafevm must be enabled for this optimization to take effect.
"debug.mpsafevm" results in (almost) Giant-free execution of zero-fill
page faults. (Giant is held only briefly, just long enough to determine
if there is a vnode backing the faulting address.)
Also, condition the acquisition and release of Giant around calls to
pmap_remove() on "debug.mpsafevm".
The effect on performance is significant. On my dual Opteron, I see a
3.6% reduction in "buildworld" time.
- Use atomic operations to update several counters in vm_fault().
to avoid later changes before pmap_enter() and vm_fault_prefault()
has completed.
Simplify deadlock avoidance by not blocking on vm map relookup.
In collaboration with: alc
1. Move a comment to its proper place, updating it. (Except for white-
space, this comment had been unchanged since revision 1.1!)
2. Remove spl calls.
being that PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() returns the wrong vm_page for fictitious
pages but unwiring uses PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE(). The resulting panic
reported an unexpected wired count. Rather than attempting to fix
PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE(), this fix takes advantage of the properties of
fictitious pages. Specifically, fictitious pages will never be
completely unwired. Therefore, we can keep a fictitious page's wired
count forever set to one and thereby avoid the use of
PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE() when we know that we're working with a fictitious
page, just not which one.
In collaboration with: green@, tegge@
PR: kern/29915
allocation and deallocation. This flag's principal use is shortly after
allocation. For such cases, clearing the flag is pointless. The only
unusual use of PG_ZERO is in vfs_bio_clrbuf(). However, allocbuf() never
requests a prezeroed page. So, vfs_bio_clrbuf() never sees a prezeroed
page.
Reviewed by: tegge@
pmap. For the kernel pmap, Giant is not required. In general, for
other pmaps, Giant is required by i386's pmap_pte() implementation.
Specifically, the use of PMAP2/PADDR2 is synchronized by Giant.
Note: In principle, updates to the kernel pmap's wired count could be
lost without Giant. However, in practice, we never use the kernel
pmap's wired count. This will be resolved when pmap locking appears.
- With the above change, cpu_thread_clean() and uma_large_free() need
not acquire Giant. (The first case is simply the revival of
i386/i386/vm_machdep.c's revision 1.226 by peter.)
panic "vm_page_cache: caching a dirty page, ...": Access to the page must
be restricted or removed before calling vm_page_cache(). This race
condition is identical in nature to that which was addressed by
vm_pageout.c's revision 1.251 and vm_page.c's revision 1.275.
Reviewed by: tegge
MFC after: 7 days
every page. If the source entry was read-only, one or more wired pages
could be in backing objects.
- vm_fault_copy_entry() should not set the PG_WRITEABLE flag on the page
unless the destination entry is, in fact, writeable.
pmap_copy_page() et al. to accept a vm_page_t rather than a physical
address. Also, this change will facilitate locking access to the vm page's
valid field.
A small helper function pmap_is_prefaultable() is added. This function
encapsulate the few lines of pmap_prefault() that actually vary from
machine to machine. Note: pmap_is_prefaultable() and pmap_mincore() have
much in common. Going forward, it's worth considering their merger.
reacquire the "first" object's lock while a backing object's lock is held.
Since this is a lock-order reversal, vm_fault() uses trylock to acquire
the first object's lock, skipping the sequential access optimization in
the unlikely event that the trylock fails.
releasing the lock only if we are about to sleep (e.g., vm_pager_get_pages()
or vm_pager_has_pages()). If we sleep, we have marked the vm object with
the paging-in-progress flag.
