History log of /haiku/src/system/kernel/arch/generic/generic_vm_physical_page_mapper.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 147133b7 25-May-2010 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* First run through the kernel's private parts to use phys_{addr,size}_t
where appropriate.
* Typedef'ed page_num_t to phys_addr_t and used it in more places in
vm_page.{h,cpp}.


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# 47c40a10 19-Oct-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Prefixed memset_physical() and memcpy_to_physical() with "vm_",
added vm_memcpy_from_physical() and vm_memcpy_physical_page(), and
added respective functions to the vm_translation_map operations. The
architecture specific implementation can now decide how to implement
them most efficiently. Added generic implementations that can be used,
though.
* Changed vm_{get,put}_physical_page(). The former no longer accepts
flags (the only flag PHYSICAL_PAGE_DONT_WAIT wasn't needed anymore).
Instead it returns an implementation-specific handle that has to be
passed to the latter. Added vm_{get,put}_physical_page_current_cpu()
and *_debug() variants, that work only for the current CPU,
respectively when in the kernel debugger. Also adjusted the
vm_translation_map operations accordingly.
* Made consequent use of the physical memory operations in the source
tree.
* Also adjusted the m68k and ppc implementations with respect to the
vm_translation_map operation changes, but they are probably broken,
nevertheless.
* For x86 the generic physical page mapper isn't used anymore. It is
suboptimal in any case. For systems with small memory it is too much
overhead, since one can just map the complete physical memory (that's
not done yet, though). For systems with large memory it counteracts
the VM strategy to reuse the least recently used pages. Since those
pages will most likely not be mapped by the page mapper anymore, it
will keep remapping chunks. This was also the reason why building
Haiku in Haiku was significantly faster with only 256 MB RAM (since
that much could be kept mapped all the time).
Now we're using a different strategy: We have small pools of virtual
page slots per CPU that are used for the physical page operations
(memset_physical(), memcpy_*_physical()) with CPU-pinned thread.
Furthermore we have four slots per translation map, which are used to
map page tables.

These changes speed up the Haiku image build in Haiku significantly. On
my Core2 Duo 2.2 GHz 2 GB machine about 40% to 20 min 40 s (KDEBUG
disabled, block cache debug disabled). Still more than factor 3 slower
than FreeBSD and Linux, though.


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# 1b6eff28 11-Oct-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Replaced the vm_get_physical_page() "flags"
PHYSICAL_PAGE_{NO,CAN}_WAIT into an actual flag
PHYSICAL_PAGE_DONT_WAIT.
* Pass the flags through to the chunk mapper callback.


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# a71974c1 06-Jan-2006 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Pulled the algorithm for dynamically mapping physical pages into an
"IO space" out of the x86 specific source into arch/generic. We'll use
it for PPC as well.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@15853 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 147133b76cbb1603bdbff295505f5b830cb4e688 25-May-2010 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* First run through the kernel's private parts to use phys_{addr,size}_t
where appropriate.
* Typedef'ed page_num_t to phys_addr_t and used it in more places in
vm_page.{h,cpp}.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@36937 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 47c40a10a10dc615e078754503f2c19b9f98c38d 19-Oct-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Prefixed memset_physical() and memcpy_to_physical() with "vm_",
added vm_memcpy_from_physical() and vm_memcpy_physical_page(), and
added respective functions to the vm_translation_map operations. The
architecture specific implementation can now decide how to implement
them most efficiently. Added generic implementations that can be used,
though.
* Changed vm_{get,put}_physical_page(). The former no longer accepts
flags (the only flag PHYSICAL_PAGE_DONT_WAIT wasn't needed anymore).
Instead it returns an implementation-specific handle that has to be
passed to the latter. Added vm_{get,put}_physical_page_current_cpu()
and *_debug() variants, that work only for the current CPU,
respectively when in the kernel debugger. Also adjusted the
vm_translation_map operations accordingly.
* Made consequent use of the physical memory operations in the source
tree.
* Also adjusted the m68k and ppc implementations with respect to the
vm_translation_map operation changes, but they are probably broken,
nevertheless.
* For x86 the generic physical page mapper isn't used anymore. It is
suboptimal in any case. For systems with small memory it is too much
overhead, since one can just map the complete physical memory (that's
not done yet, though). For systems with large memory it counteracts
the VM strategy to reuse the least recently used pages. Since those
pages will most likely not be mapped by the page mapper anymore, it
will keep remapping chunks. This was also the reason why building
Haiku in Haiku was significantly faster with only 256 MB RAM (since
that much could be kept mapped all the time).
Now we're using a different strategy: We have small pools of virtual
page slots per CPU that are used for the physical page operations
(memset_physical(), memcpy_*_physical()) with CPU-pinned thread.
Furthermore we have four slots per translation map, which are used to
map page tables.

These changes speed up the Haiku image build in Haiku significantly. On
my Core2 Duo 2.2 GHz 2 GB machine about 40% to 20 min 40 s (KDEBUG
disabled, block cache debug disabled). Still more than factor 3 slower
than FreeBSD and Linux, though.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@28244 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 1b6eff280f4afcf4d7c9dc9ccdc3a65f4e6ca0fd 11-Oct-2008 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Replaced the vm_get_physical_page() "flags"
PHYSICAL_PAGE_{NO,CAN}_WAIT into an actual flag
PHYSICAL_PAGE_DONT_WAIT.
* Pass the flags through to the chunk mapper callback.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@27979 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# a71974c1f8098070e66beb3830666c6fa487f1fa 06-Jan-2006 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Pulled the algorithm for dynamically mapping physical pages into an
"IO space" out of the x86 specific source into arch/generic. We'll use
it for PPC as well.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@15853 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96