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git: NFS - Fix remaining VM/BIO issues


From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:54:23 -0700 (PDT)

commit a63246d16b71ec43a2effedf45c2602629c764fd
Author: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 28 09:47:44 2009 -0700

    NFS - Fix remaining VM/BIO issues
    
    The only bug that could not be resolved by the previous commit is related
    to the use of dynamic buffer sizing for the buffer that straddles the
    EOF of the file.  For example, if a file is 32768+4127 bytes then the
    second buffer cache buffer would have a size of 4127 bytes instead of
    32768 bytes.  Because the EOF point can move around and NFS does not
    keep good track of it buffers with weird sizes could build up in the
    system and interfere with operations against backing VM pages.
    
    In particular truncations followed by seek-write extensions would
    interfere with mmap()'s areas around the original (now non-applicable)
    truncation point.
    
    It was not possible to fix this bug while still keeping the dynamic
    buffer sizing, so this patch converts NFS's buffer cache operations
    to use fixed-sized buffers in all cases.  This leads to more wasted
    memory when dealing with small files and further optimizations may be
    attempted in the future, but it seems to solve issues with BIO/VM
    interactions.
    
    * Fsx now survives an overnight pass.
    
    * Buildworld now survives multiple passes when using a writable NFS /usr/obj.
    
    * Fix umount sequencing.  Sometimes the rxthread would get into a
      reconnect loop and not exit.

Summary of changes:
 sys/vfs/nfs/nfs.h        |    4 +-
 sys/vfs/nfs/nfs_bio.c    |  363 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 sys/vfs/nfs/nfs_iod.c    |    5 +-
 sys/vfs/nfs/nfs_socket.c |    4 +
 sys/vfs/nfs/nfs_vnops.c  |   26 +++-
 sys/vfs/nfs/nfsnode.h    |    2 +-
 6 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/a63246d16b71ec43a2effedf45c2602629c764fd


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