EINTEGRITY was previously documented as a UFS-specific error for
mount(2). This documents EINTEGRITY as a filesystem-independent error
that may be reported by the backing store of a filesystem.
While here, document EIO as a filesystem-independent error for both
mount(2) and posix_fadvise(2). EIO was previously only documented for
UFS for mount(2).
Reviewed by: mckusick
Suggested by: mckusick
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24168
back to the lever before r343030. For 64-bit machines reduce it slightly,
too. Together with r343030 I bumped the limit up to the value we use at
Netflix to serve 100 Gbit/s of sendfile traffic, and it probably isn't a
good default.
Provide a loader tunable to change vnode pager pbufs count. Document it.
This is meant to clarify the fact that the system call will not fail
with -1/EFAULT, as one might expect, when reading the sendfile(2)
manpage today.
While here, pet the mandoc linter, when dealing with the section that
describes valid values for `flags`.
PR: 232210
MFC after: 2 weeks
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
Reviewed by: glebius, 0mp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18949
do any speculations about readahead, and use exactly the amount of readahead
specified by user. E.g. setting SF_FLAGS(0, SF_USER_READAHEAD) will guarantee
that no readahead at all will be performed.
up to now.
The new sendfile is the code that Netflix uses to send their multiple tens
of gigabits of data per second. The new implementation features asynchronous
I/O, when I/O operations are launched, but not awaited to be complete. An
explanation of why such behavior is beneficial compared to old one is
going to be too long for a commit message, so we will skip it here.
Additional features of new syscall are extra flags, which provide an
application more control over data sent. The SF_NOCACHE flag tells
kernel that data shouldn't be cached after it was sent. The SF_READAHEAD()
macro allows to specify readahead size in pages.
The new syscalls is a drop in replacement. No modifications are required
to applications. One can take nginx binary for stable/10 and run it
successfully on head. Although SF_NODISKIO lost its original sense, as now
sendfile doesn't block, and now means something completely different (tm),
using the new sendfile the old way is absolutely safe.
Celebrates: Netflix global launch!
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
referencing the files VM pages are returned from the network stack,
making changes to the file safe.
This flag does not guarantee that the data has been transmitted to the
other end.
to sendfile(2) being erroneously automatically restarted after a signal
is delivered. Fixed by converting ERESTART to EINTR prior to exiting.
Updated manual page to indicate the potential EINTR error, its cause
and consequences.
Approved by: re@freebsd.org
Stop calling system calls "function calls".
Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".
When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
- Sort xrefs
- FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org
- Be consistent with section names as outlines in mdoc(7)
- Other misc mdoc cleanup.
PR: doc/13144
Submitted by: Alexy M. Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
