Hi John,
Thanks for the reply and additional information on locks.
The solution I've just completed working on is designed exactly as you
describe. We're about to begin testing and evaluating the module, and
we'll be releasing the code and 2 technical reports related to it within
the coming weeks with any luck. The first report describes the module
and its performance characteristics... only interesting to people doing
TCP related research with FreeBSD. The other report is a sort of "intro
to FreeBSD kernel hacking" paper, which is a brain dump of all the
useful lessons we've learnt throughout the process. This report is
mostly for our benefit so we remember the lessons we learnt for next
time, but we're hoping it will also be something useful for the
community to point noob kernel hackers at for some introductory information.
I'll be posting to this list as soon as the code and reports are
available, as it has been indicated by people following this thread that
having some sort of tutorial/reference information would be useful.
Cheers,
Lawrence
John Baldwin wrote:
Use a task to defer the kio_write() to a taskqueue. You have to malloc state
(using M_NOWAIT, which can fail) to do this properly. If you are doing this
for every packet, you are probably better off using malloc() to throw items
into a queue and having a global task that drains the queue on each execution
doing kio_write()'s for each object.
Regarding sleepable vs. non-sleepable locks. Getting preempted by an
interrupt is not considered "sleeping". Sleeping means voluntarily yielding
the CPU to wait for an event such as via msleep() or a condition variable.
Note that interrupt handlers can acquire non-sleepable locks. If you sleep
while holding a non-sleepable lock, you may have an interrupt handler that
can't run while it waits for some async event (like disk I/O) to complete.
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