History log of /freebsd-current/sys/sys/_smr.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 95ee2897 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 3fba8868 06-Mar-2020 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

Move SMR pointer type definition and access macros to smr_types.h.

The intent is to provide a header that can be included by other headers
without introducing too much pollution. smr.h depends on various
headers and will likely grow over time, but is less likely to be
required by system headers.

Rename SMR_TYPE_DECLARE() to SMR_POINTER():
- One might use SMR to protect more than just pointers; it
could be used for resizeable arrays, for example, so TYPE seems too
generic.
- It is useful to be able to define anonymous SMR-protected pointer
types and the _DECLARE suffix makes that look wrong.

Reviewed by: jeff, mjg, rlibby
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23988


# 226dd6db 21-Feb-2020 Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>

Add an atomic-free tick moderated lazy update variant of SMR.

This enables very cheap read sections with free-to-use latencies and memory
overhead similar to epoch. On a recent AMD platform a read section cost
1ns vs 5ns for the default SMR. On Xeon the numbers should be more like 1
ns vs 11. The memory consumption should be proportional to the product
of the free rate and 2*1/hz while normal SMR consumption is proportional
to the product of free rate and maximum read section time.

While here refactor the code to make future additions more
straightforward.

Name the overall technique Global Unbound Sequences (GUS) and adjust some
comments accordingly. This helps distinguish discussions of the general
technique (SMR) vs this specific implementation (GUS).

Discussed with: rlibby, markj


# da6e9935 30-Jan-2020 Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>

Don't use "All rights reserved" in new copyrights.

Requested by: rgrimes


# d4665eaa 30-Jan-2020 Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>

Implement a safe memory reclamation feature that is tightly coupled with UMA.

This is in the same family of algorithms as Epoch/QSBR/RCU/PARSEC but is
a unique algorithm. This has 3x the performance of epoch in a write heavy
workload with less than half of the read side cost. The memory overhead
is significantly lessened by limiting the free-to-use latency. A synthetic
test uses 1/20th of the memory vs Epoch. There is significant further
discussion in the comments and code review.

This code should be considered experimental. I will write a man page after
it has settled. After further validation the VM will begin using this
feature to permit lockless page lookups.

Both markj and cperciva tested on arm64 at large core counts to verify
fences on weaker ordering architectures. I will commit a stress testing
tool in a follow-up.

Reviewed by: mmacy, markj, rlibby, hselasky
Discussed with: sbahara
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22586