Using unmapped IO is really beneficial when running inside of a VM,
since it avoids IPIs to other vCPUs in order to invalidate the
mappings.
This patch adds unmapped IO support to blkfront. The following tests
results have been obtained when running on a Xen host without HAP:
PVHVM
3165.84 real 6354.17 user 4483.32 sys
PVHVM with unmapped IO
2099.46 real 4624.52 user 2967.38 sys
This is because when running using shadow page tables TLB flushes and
range invalidations are much more expensive, so using unmapped IO
provides a very important performance boost.
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Tested by: robak
MFC after: 1 week
PR: 191173
dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c:
- Add and announce support for unmapped IO.
Rename vt_generate_vga_palette() to vt_generate_cons_palette() and
change it to build a palette where the color index is the same than in
terminal escape codes, not the VGA index. That's what TCHAR_CREATE()
uses and passes to vt(4).
The main differences between both orders are:
o Blue and red are swapped (1 <-> 4)
o Yellow and cyan are swapped (3 <-> 6)
The problem remained unnoticed, because the RGB bit indexes passed to
vt_generate_vga_palette() were reversed. This inversion was cancelled
by the colors inversions in the generated palette. For instance, red
(0xff0000) and blue (0x0000ff) have bytes in opposite order, but were
swapped in the palette. But after changing the value of blue (see last
paragraph), the modified color was in fact the red one.
This commit includes a fix to creator_vt.c, submitted by Nathan
Whitehorn: fb_cmsize is set to 16. Before this, the generated palette
would be overwritte. This fixes colors on sparc64 with a Creator3D
adapter.
While here, tune the palette to better match console colors and improve
the readability (especially the dark blue).
Submitted by: nwhitehorn (fix to creator_vt.c)
MFC after: 1 week
In several functions, vtbuf_putchar() in particular, the lock on vtbuf
is acquired twice:
1. once by the said functions;
2. once in vtbuf_dirty().
Now, vtbuf_dirty_locked() and vtbuf_dirty_cell_locked() allow to
acquire that lock only once.
This improves the input speed of vt(4). To measure the gain, a
50,000-lines file was displayed on the console using cat(1). The time
taken by cat(1) is reported below:
o On amd64, with vt_vga:
- before: 1.0"
- after: 0.5"
o On sparc64, with creator_vt:
- before: 13.6"
- after: 10.5"
MFC after: 1 week
vt_fb_attach() currently always returns 0, but it could return a code
defined in errno.h. However, it doesn't return a CN_* code. So checking
its return value against CN_DEAD (which is 0) is incorrect, and in this
case, a success becomes a failure.
The consequence was unimportant, because the caller (drm_fb_helper.c)
would only log an error message in this case. The console would still
work.
Approved by: nwhitehorn
The AR9380 and later chips have a 128KiB register window, so the register
read diag api needs changing.
The tools are about to be updated as well. No, they're not backwards
compatible.
the right register bank for the framebuffer. Disable the assigned-addresses
path on SPARC since it is just a hack for IBM PPC systems and was neither
relevant for nor worked on SPARC anyway.
vm_phys_fictitious_to_vm_page should not be called directly, even when
operating on a range that has been registered using
vm_phys_fictitious_reg_range. PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE should be used instead
because on arches that use VM_PHYSSEG_DENSE the page might come
directly from vm_page_array.
Reported by: nwhitehorn
Tested by: nwhitehorn, David Mackay <davidm.jx8p@gmail.com>
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
- Replace the global driver lock with a per-instance device lock.
- Use the per-instance device lock instead of Giant for the CAM sim lock.
- Add global locks to protect the adapter list and DPC queues.
- Use wakeup() and mtx_sleep() to wait for certain events like the
controller going idle rather than polling via timeouts passed to
tsleep().
- Use callout(9) instead of timeout(9).
- Mark the interrupt handler MPSAFE.
- Remove compat shims for FreeBSD versions older than 8.0.
Reviewed by: Steve Chang <ychang@highpoint-tech.com>
- Use the existing vbus locks instead of Giant for the CAM sim lock.
- Use callout(9) instead of timeout(9).
- Mark the interrupt handler MPSAFE.
- Don't attempt to pass data in the softc from probe() to attach().
- Remove compat shims for FreeBSD versions older than 8.0.
Reviewed by: Steve Chang <ychang@highpoint-tech.com>
- Use the existing vbus locks instead of Giant for the CAM sim lock.
- Use callout(9) instead of timeout(9).
- Mark the interrupt handler MPSAFE.
- Don't attempt to pass data in the softc from probe() to attach().
- Remove compat shims for FreeBSD versions older than 8.0.
Reviewed by: Steve Chang <ychang@highpoint-tech.com>
- Use callout(9) instead of timeout(9).
- Use the existing hba lock as the CAM sim lock instead of Giant.
- Mark interrupt handler MPSAFE.
- Reorder detach and destroy the hba lock in detach.
Reviewed by: Steve Chang <ychang@highpoint-tech.com>
- Cleanup some register reads and writes to use existing register
access macros.
- Ensure code which only applies to the control endpoint is not run
for other endpoints in the data transfer path.
MFC after: 3 days
handled by creator(4) (Sun Creator 3D, Elite 3D, etc.). This provides
vt(4) consoles on all devices currently supported by syscons on sparc64.
The driver should also be easily adaptable to support newer Sun framebuffers
such as the XVR-500 and higher.
Many thanks to dumbbell@ (Jean-Sebastien Pedron) for testing this remotely
during development.
ethernet class.
Note: This is untested as I do not have a device like this. That is
reflected in the MFC timeout.
PR: 192345
Submitted by: rozhuk.im gmail.com
MFC after: 4 weeks
