many regions checked again and again despite knowing the pages
contained were not usable and only satisfied the alignment constraints
This case was compounded, especially for large allocations, by the
practice of looping from the top of memory so as to keep out of the
important low-memory regions. While the old contigmalloc(9) has the
same problem, it is not as noticeable due to looping from the low
memory to high.
This degenerate case is fixed, as well as reversing the sense of the
rest of the loops within it, to provide a tremendous speed increase.
This makes the best case O(n * VM overhead) much more likely than the
worst case O(4 * VM overhead). For comparison, the worst case for old
contigmalloc would be O(5 * VM overhead) in addition to its strategy
of turning used memory into free being highly pessimal.
Also, fix a bug that in practice most likely couldn't have been triggered,
int the new contigmalloc(9): it walked backwards from the end of memory
without accounting for how many pages it needed. Potentially, nonexistant
pages could have been mapped. This hasn't occurred because the kernel
generally requests as its first contigmalloc(9) a single page.
Reported by: Nicolas Dehaine <nicko@stbernard.com>, wes
MFC After: 1 month
More testing by: Nicolas Dehaine <nicko@stbernard.com>, wes
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