Sears Russell
dd0bcae074
add thread synchronization logic to ensure that only one thread is performing writeback at a time. This fixes weird I/O interleavings on some machines
2009-08-13 23:18:49 +00:00
Sears Russell
0154f7d29d
IMPORTANT API CHANGE: stasis_dirty_page_table_flush_range() no longer force writes to disk. You now need to call forcePageRange() after flush page range returns.
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This commit should significantly improve sequential write thoughput.
I found a segfault bug this morning, but cannot reproduce. Could be a heisenbug, or could have been a hardware fault (gojira repeatedly kernel paniced, then both problems went away...)
2009-08-13 05:53:48 +00:00
Sears Russell
0cc65aefaf
Remove LRU-ordered writeback. Instead, writeback pages sequentially once some fraction of the page file is dirty. Also. further simplifies writeback code.
2009-08-11 17:23:43 +00:00
Sears Russell
a0f9a7bc81
Cleaned up page locking + a harmless memory bug. Add missing locks to page writeback.
2009-08-08 07:59:19 +00:00
Sears Russell
907a24b68e
dirty page table flush was pinning pages, then asserting they were not pinned; updated page writeback api to allow correct usage
2009-08-08 01:43:03 +00:00
Sears Russell
c92ee87c32
improved behavior for sequential I/O performance, fixed races during writeback
2009-08-07 18:27:52 +00:00
Sears Russell
b44f8b17b3
Add getCachedPage() call. This allows dirtyPageTable to write back pages with out accidentally reading them back in from disk with loadPage(). This should improve performance and allow loadPageOfType() to be used safely.
2009-07-14 07:46:47 +00:00
Sears Russell
7db06197ca
refactored truncation + dirty page table, fixed doxygen warnings.
2009-05-20 21:23:51 +00:00
