History log of /freebsd-current/sys/i386/include/sf_buf.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 95ee2897 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 83ef78be 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/i386: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.


# c8d2ffd6 05-Aug-2014 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Merge all MD sf_buf allocators into one MI, residing in kern/subr_sfbuf.c
The MD allocators were very common, however there were some minor
differencies. These differencies were all consolidated in the MI allocator,
under ifdefs. The defines from machine/vmparam.h turn on features required
for a particular machine. For details look in the comment in sys/sf_buf.h.

As result no MD code left in sys/*/*/vm_machdep.c. Some arches still have
machine/sf_buf.h, which is usually quite small.

Tested by: glebius (i386), tuexen (arm32), kevlo (arm32)
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.


# 2ee9b44c 06-Sep-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Fix build with gcc. Move sf_buf_alloc()/sf_buf_free() declarations
to MD headers.


# 71a19bdc 05-May-2011 Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>

Commit the support for removing cpumask_t and replacing it directly with
cpuset_t objects.
That is going to offer the underlying support for a simple bump of
MAXCPU and then support for number of cpus > 32 (as it is today).

Right now, cpumask_t is an int, 32 bits on all our supported architecture.
cpumask_t on the other side is implemented as an array of longs, and
easilly extendible by definition.

The architectures touched by this commit are the following:
- amd64
- i386
- pc98
- arm
- ia64
- XEN

while the others are still missing.
Userland is believed to be fully converted with the changes contained
here.

Some technical notes:
- This commit may be considered an ABI nop for all the architectures
different from amd64 and ia64 (and sparc64 in the future)
- per-cpu members, which are now converted to cpuset_t, needs to be
accessed avoiding migration, because the size of cpuset_t should be
considered unknown
- size of cpuset_t objects is different from kernel and userland (this is
primirally done in order to leave some more space in userland to cope
with KBI extensions). If you need to access kernel cpuset_t from the
userland please refer to example in this patch on how to do that
correctly (kgdb may be a good source, for example).
- Support for other architectures is going to be added soon
- Only MAXCPU for amd64 is bumped now

The patch has been tested by sbruno and Nicholas Esborn on opteron
4 x 12 pack CPUs. More testing on big SMP is expected to came soon.
pluknet tested the patch with his 8-ways on both amd64 and i386.

Tested by: pluknet, sbruno, gianni, Nicholas Esborn
Reviewed by: jeff, jhb, sbruno


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# 8a5ac5d5 29-Jul-2009 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

As was done in r195820 for amd64, use clflush for flushing cache lines
when memory page caching attributes changed, and CPU does not support
self-snoop, but implemented clflush, for i386.

Take care of possible mappings of the page by sf buffer by utilizing
the mapping for clflush, otherwise map the page transiently. Amd64
used direct map.

Proposed and reviewed by: alc
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# 5c0db7c7 12-Feb-2005 Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>

Implement support for CPU private mappings within sf_buf_alloc().


# a5819cb5 07-Dec-2003 Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>

Don't remove the virtual-to-physical mapping when an sf_buf is freed.
Instead, allow the mapping to persist, but add the sf_buf to a free list.
If a later sendfile(2) or zero-copy send resends the same physical page,
perhaps with the same or different contents, then the mapping overhead is
avoided and the sf_buf is simply removed from the free list.

In other words, the i386 sf_buf implementation now behaves as a cache of
virtual-to-physical translations using an LRU replacement policy on
inactive sf_bufs. This is similar in concept to a part of
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yruan/debox/ patch, but much simpler in
implementation. Note: none of this is required on alpha, amd64, or ia64.
They now use their direct virtual-to-physical mapping to avoid any
emphemeral mapping overheads in their sf_buf implementations.


# 0543fa53 17-Nov-2003 Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>

- Change the i386's sf_buf implementation so that it never allocates
more than one sf_buf for one vm_page. To accomplish this, we add
a global hash table mapping vm_pages to sf_bufs and a reference
count to each sf_buf. (This is similar to the patches for RELENG_4
at http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yruan/debox/.)

For the uninitiated, an sf_buf is nothing more than a kernel virtual
address that is used for temporary virtual-to-physical mappings by
sendfile(2) and zero-copy sockets. As such, there is no reason for
one vm_page to have several sf_bufs mapping it. In fact, using more
than one sf_buf for a single vm_page increases the likelihood that
sendfile(2) blocks, hurting throughput.
(See http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yruan/debox/.)


# e45db9b8 15-Nov-2003 Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>

- Modify alpha's sf_buf implementation to use the direct virtual-to-
physical mapping.
- Move the sf_buf API to its own header file; make struct sf_buf's
definition machine dependent. In this commit, we remove an
unnecessary field from struct sf_buf on the alpha, amd64, and ia64.
Ultimately, we may eliminate struct sf_buf on those architecures
except as an opaque pointer that references a vm page.