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author | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-10-02 21:28:04 +0000 |
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committer | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-10-02 21:28:04 +0000 |
commit | 90e4888e37d3d8d3b17a80d0bfc632b87df479b7 (patch) | |
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parent | 9236a509b36befc874683da27888d16fbed5122b (diff) |
Too much dust on these files, it's time for them to leave the building.
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-rw-r--r-- | sys/arch/hp300/DOC/README | 25 | ||||
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diff --git a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/Debug.tips b/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/Debug.tips deleted file mode 100644 index 8a76bc98edf..00000000000 --- a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/Debug.tips +++ /dev/null @@ -1,228 +0,0 @@ -$OpenBSD: Debug.tips,v 1.3 2002/02/10 23:15:05 deraadt Exp $ -$NetBSD: Debug.tips,v 1.2 1994/10/26 07:22:49 cgd Exp $ - -NOTE: this description applies to the hp300 system with the old BSD -virtual memory system. It has not been updated to reflect the new, -Mach-derived VM system, but should still be useful. -The new system has no fixed-address "u.", but has a fixed mapping -for the kernel stack at 0xfff00000. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Some quick notes on the HPBSD VM layout and kernel debugging. - -Physical memory: - -Physical memory always ends at the top of the 32 bit address space; i.e. the -last addressible byte is at 0xFFFFFFFF. Hence, the start of physical memory -varies depending on how much memory is installed. The kernel variable "lowram" -contains the starting locatation of memory as provided by the ROM. - -The low 128k (I think) of the physical address space is occupied by the ROM. -This is accessible via /dev/mem *only* if the kernel is compiled with DEBUG. -[ Maybe it should always be accessible? ] - -Virtual address spaces: - -The hardware page size is 4096 bytes. The hardware uses a two-level lookup. -At the highest level is a one page segment table which maps a page table which -maps the address space. Each 4 byte segment table entry (described in -hp300/pte.h) contains the page number of a single page of 4 byte page table -entries. Each PTE maps a single page of address space. Hence, each STE maps -4Mb of address space and one page containing 1024 STEs is adequate to map the -entire 4Gb address space. - -Both page and segment table entries look similar. Both have the page frame -in the upper part and control bits in the lower. This is the opposite of -the VAX. It is easy to convert the page frame number in an STE/PTE to a -physical address, simply mentally mask out the low 12 bits. For example -if a PTE contains 0xFF880019, the physical memory location mapped starts at -0xFF880000. - -Kernel address space: - -The kernel resides in its own virtual address space independent of all user -processes. When the processor is in supervisor mode (i.e. interrupt or -exception handling) it uses the kernel virtual mapping. The kernel segment -table is called Sysseg and is allocated statically in hp300/locore.s. The -kernel page table is called Systab is also allocated statically in -hp300/locore.s and consists of the usual assortment of SYSMAPs. -The size of Systab (Syssize) depends on the configured size of the various -maps but as currently configured is 9216 PTEs. Both segment and page tables -are initialized at bootup in hp300/locore.s. The segment table never changes -(except for bits maintained by the hardware). Portions of the page table -change as needed. The kernel is mapped into the address space starting at 0. - -Theoretically, any address in the range 0 to Syssize * 4096 (0x2400000 as -currently configured) is valid. However, certain addresses are more common -in dumps than others. Those are (for the current configuration): - - 0 - 0x800000 kernel text and permanent data structures - 0x917000 - 0x91a000 u-area; 1st page is user struct, last k-stack - 0x1b1b000 - 0x2400000 user page tables, also kmem_alloc()ed data - -User address space: - -The user text and data are loaded starting at VA 0. The user's stack starts -at 0xFFF00000 and grows toward lower addresses. The pages above the user -stack are used by the kernel. From 0xFFF00000 to 0xFFF03000 is the u-area. -The 3 PTEs for this range map (read-only) the same memory as does 0x917000 -to 0x91a000 in the kernel address space. This address range is never used -by the kernel, but exists for utilities that assume that the u-area sits -above the user stack. The pages from FFF03000 up are not used. They -exist so that the user stack is in the same location as in HPUX. - -The user segment table is allocated along with the page tables from Usrptmap. -They are contiguous in kernel VA space with the page tables coming before -the segment table. Hence, a process has p_szpt+1 pages allocated starting -at kernel VA p_p0br. - -The user segment table is typically very sparse since each entry maps 4Mb. -There are usually only two valid STEs, one at the start mapping the text/data -potion of the page table, and one at the end mapping the stack/u-area. For -example if the segment table was at 0xFFFFA000 there would be valid entries -at 0xFFFFA000 and 0xFFFFAFFC. - -Random notes: - -An important thing to note is that there are no hardware length registers -on the HP. This implies that we cannot "pack" data and stack PTEs into the -same page table page. Hence, every user page table has at least 2 pages -(3 if you count the segment table). - -The HP maintains the p0br/p0lr and p1br/p1lr PCB fields the same as the -VAX even though they have no meaning to the hardware. This also keeps many -utilities happy. - -There is no separate interrupt stack (right now) on the HPs. Interrupt -processing is handled on the kernel stack of the "current" process. - -Following is a list of things you might want to be able to do with a kernel -core dump. One thing you should always have is a ps listing from the core -file. Just do: - - ps klaw vmunix.? vmcore.? - -Exception related panics (i.e. those detected in hp300/trap.c) will dump -out various useful information before panicing. If available, you should -get this out of the /usr/adm/messages file. Finally, you should be in adb: - - adb -k vmunix.? vmcore.? - -Adb -k will allow you to examine the kernel address space more easily. -It automatically maps kernel VAs in the range 0 to 0x2400000 to physical -addresses. Since the kernel and user address spaces overlap (i.e. both -start at 0), adb can't let you examine the address space of the "current" -process as it does on the VAX. --------- - -1. Find out what the current process was at the time of the crash: - -If you have the dump info from /usr/adm/messages, it should contain the -PID of the active process. If you don't have this info you can just look -at location "Umap". This is the PTE for the first page of the u-area; i.e. -the user structure. Forget about the last 3 hex digits and compare the top -5 to the ADDR column in the ps listing. - -2. Locating a process' user structure: - -Get the ADDR field of the desired process from the ps listing. This is the -page frame number of the process' user structure. Tack 3 zeros on to the -end to get the physical address. Note that this doesn't give you the kernel -stack since it is in a different page than the user-structure and pages of -the u-area are not physically contiguous. - -3. Locating a process' proc structure: - -First find the process' user structure as described above. Find the u_procp -field at offset 0x200 from the beginning. This gives you the kernel VA of -the proc structure. - -4. Locating a process' page table: - -First find the process' user structure as described above. The first part -of the user structure is the PCB. The second longword (third field) of the -PCB is pcb_ustp, a pointer to the user segment table. This pointer is -actually the page frame number. Again adding 3 zeros yields the physical -address. You can now use the values in the segment table to locate the -page tables. For example, to locate the first page of the text/data part -of the page table, use the first STE (longword) in the segment table. - -5. Locating a process' kernel stack: - -First find the process' page table as described above. The kernel stack -is near the end of the user address space. So, locate the last entry in the -user segment table (base+0xFFC) and use that entry to find the last page of -the user page table. Look at the last 256 entries of this page -(pagebase+0xFE0) The first is the PTE for the user-structure. The second -was intended to be a read-only page to protect the user structure from the -kernel stack. Currently it is read/write and actually allocated. Hence -it can wind up being a second page for the kernel stack. The third is the -kernel stack. The last 253 should be zero. Hence, indirecing through the -third of these last 256 PTEs will give you the kernel stack page. - -An alternate way to do this is to use the p_addr field of the proc structure -which is found as described above. The p_addr field is at offset 0x10 in the -proc structure and points to the first of the PTEs mentioned above (i.e. the -user structure PTE). - -6. Interpreting the info in a "trap type N..." panic: - -As mentioned, when the kernel crashes out of hp300/trap.c it will dump some -useful information. This dates back to the days when I was debugging the -exception handling code and had no kernel adb or even kernel crash dump code. -"trap type" (decimal) is as defined in hp300/trap.h, it doesn't really -correlate with anything useful. "code" (hex) is only useful for MMU -(trap type 8) errors. It is the concatination of the MMU status register -(see hp300/cpu.h) in the high 16 bits and the 68020 special status word -(see the 020 manual page 6-17) in the low 16. "v" (hex) is the virtual -address which caused the fault. "pid" (decimal) is the ID of the process -running at the time of the exception. Note that if we panic in an interrupt -routine, this process may not be related to the panic. "ps" (hex) is the -value of the 68020 status register (see page 1-4 of 020 manual) at the time -of the crash. If the 0x2000 bit is on, we were in supervisor (kernel) mode -at the time, otherwise we were in user mode. "pc" (hex) is the value of the -PC saved on the hardware exception frame. It may *not* be the PC of the -instruction causing the fault (see the 020 manual for details). The 0x2000 -bit of "ps" dictates whether this is a kernel or user VA. "sfc" and "dfc" -are the 68020 source/destination function codes. They should always be one. -"p0" and "p1" are the VAX-like region registers. They are of the form: - - <length> '@' <kernel VA> - -where both are in hex. Following these values are a dump of the processor -registers (hex). Check the address registers for values close to "v", the -fault address. Most faults are causes by dereferences of bogus pointers. -Most such dereferences are the result of 020 instructions using the: - - <address-register> '@' '(' offset ')' - -addressing mode. This can help you track down the faulting instruction (since -the PC may not point to it). Note that the value of a7 (the stack pointer) is -ALWAYS the user SP. This is brain-dead I know. Finally, is a dump of the -stack (user/kernel) at the time of the offense. Before kernel crash dumps, -this was very useful. - -7. Converting kernel virtual address to a physical address. - -Adb -k already does this for you, but sometimes you want to know what the -resulting physical address is rather than what is there. Doing this is -simply a matter of indexing into the kernel page table. In theory we would -first have to do a lookup in the kernel segment table, but we know that the -kernel page table is physically contiguous so this isn't necessary. The -base of the system page table is "Sysmap", so to convert an address V just -divide the address by 4096 to get the page number, multiply that by 4 (the -size of a PTE in bytes) to get a byte offset, and add that to "Sysmap". -This gives you the address of the PTE mapping V. You can then get the -physical address by masking out the low 12 bits of the contents of that PTE. -To wit: - - *(Sysmap+(VA%1000*4))&fffff000 - -where VA is the virtual address in question. - -This technique should also work for user virtual addresses if you replace -"Sysmap" with the value of the appropriate processes' P0BR. This works -because a user's page table is *virtually* contiguous in the kernel -starting at P0BR, and adb will handle translating the kernel virtual addresses -for you. diff --git a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/HPMMU.notes b/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/HPMMU.notes deleted file mode 100644 index 0d525d2e076..00000000000 --- a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/HPMMU.notes +++ /dev/null @@ -1,148 +0,0 @@ -$OpenBSD: HPMMU.notes,v 1.4 2002/02/10 23:15:05 deraadt Exp $ -$NetBSD: HPMMU.notes,v 1.2 1994/10/26 07:22:51 cgd Exp $ - -Overview: --------- - - (Some of this is gleaned from an article in the September 1986 - Hewlett-Packard Journal and info in the July 1987 HP Communicator) - - Page and segment table entries mimic the Motorola 68851 PMMU, - in an effort at upward compatibility. The HP MMU uses a two - level translation scheme. There are separate (but equal!) - translation tables for both supervisor and user modes. At the - lowest level are page tables. Each page table consists of one - or more 4k pages of 1024x4 byte page table entries. Each PTE - maps one 4k page of VA space. At the highest level is the - segment table. The segment table is a single 4K page of 1024x4 - byte entries. Each entry points to a 4k page of PTEs. Hence - one STE maps 4Mb of VA space and one page of STEs is sufficient - to map the entire 4Gb address space (what a coincidence!). The - unused valid bit in page and segment table entries must be - zero. - - There are separate translation lookaside buffers for the user - and supervisor modes, each containing 1024 entries. - - To augment the 68020's instruction cache, the HP CPU has an - external cache. A direct-mapped, virtual cache implementation - is used with 16 Kbytes of cache on 320 systems and 32 Kbytes on - 350 systems. Each cache entry can contain instructions or data, - from either user or supervisor space. Separate valid bits are - kept for user and supervisor entries, allowing for descriminatory - flushing of the cache. - - MMU translation and cache-miss detection are done in parallel. - - -Segment table entries: -------- ----- ------- - - bits 31-12: Physical page frame number of PT page - bits 11-4: Reserved at zero - (can software use them?) - bit 3: Reserved at one - bit 2: Set to 1 if segment is read-only, ow read-write - bits 1-0: Valid bits - (hardware uses bit 1) - - -Page table entries: ----- ----- ------- - - bits 31-12: Physical page frame number of page - bits 11-7: Available for software use - bit 6: If 1, inhibits caching of data in this page. - (both instruction and external cache) - bit 5: Reserved at zero - bit 4: Hardware modify bit - bit 3: Hardware reference bit - bit 2: Set to 1 if page is read-only, ow read-write - bits 1-0: Valid bits - (hardware uses bit 0) - - -Hardware registers: --------- --------- - - The hardware has four longword registers controlling the MMU. - The registers can be accessed as shortwords also (remember to - add 2 to addresses given below). - - 5F4000: Supervisor mode segment table pointer. Loaded (as longword) - with page frame number (i.e. Physaddr >> 12) of the segment - table mapping supervisor space. - 5F4004: User mode segment table pointer. Loaded (as longword) with - page frame number of the segment table mapping user space. - 5F4008: TLB control register. Used to invalid large sections of the - TLB. More info below. - 5F400C: MMU command/status register. Defined as follows: - - bit 15: If 1, indicates a page table fault occurred - bit 14: If 1, indicates a page fault occurred - bit 13: If 1, indicates a protection fault (write to RO page) - bit 6: MC68881 enable. Tied to chip enable line. - (set this bit to enable) - bit 5: MC68020 instruction cache enable. Tied to Insruction - cache disable line. (set this bit to enable) - bit 3: If 1, indicates an MMU related bus error occurred. - Bits 13-15 are now valid. - bit 2: External cache enable. (set this bit to enable) - bit 1: Supervisor mapping enable. Enables translation of - supervisor space VAs. - bit 0: User mapping enable. Enables translation of user - space VAs. - - - Any bits set by the hardware are cleared only by software. - (i.e. bits 3,13,14,15) - -Invalidating TLB: ------------- --- - - All translations: - Read the TLB control register (5F4008) as a longword. - - User translations only: - Write a longword 0 to TLB register or set the user - segment table pointer. - - Supervisor translations only: - Write a longword 0x8000 to TLB register or set the - supervisor segment table pointer. - - A particular VA translation: - Set destination function code to 3 ("purge" space), - write a longword 0 to the VA whose translation we are to - invalidate, and restore function code. This apparently - invalidates any translation for that VA in both the user - and supervisor LB. Here is what I did: - - #define FC_PURGE 3 - #define FC_USERD 1 - _TBIS: - movl sp@(4),a0 | VA to invalidate - moveq #FC_PURGE,d0 | change address space - movc d0,dfc | for destination - moveq #0,d0 | zero to invalidate? - movsl d0,a0@ | hit it - moveq #FC_USERD,d0 | back to old - movc d0,dfc | address space - rts | done - - -Invalidating the external cache: ------------- --- -------- ----- - - Everything: - Toggle the cache enable bit (bit 2) in the MMU control - register (5F400C). Can be done by ANDing and ORing the - register location. - - User: - Change the user segment table pointer register (5F4004), - i.e. read the current value and write it back. - - Supervisor: - Change the supervisor segment table pointer register - (5F4000), i.e. read the current value and write it back. diff --git a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/Options b/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/Options deleted file mode 100644 index 6e4d08dbe81..00000000000 --- a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/Options +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ -$OpenBSD: Options,v 1.10 2001/12/06 01:02:50 miod Exp $ -$NetBSD: Options,v 1.7 1997/09/12 08:04:12 mycroft Exp $ - -Here is a list of HP300 specific kernel compilation options and what they -mean: - -HP320 - Support for HP320 machines: 16MHz 68020, HP MMU, 16MHz 68881 and VAC. - Compiles in support for a VAC, HP MMU, and the 98620A 16-bit DMA - channel. - -HP350 - Support for HP350 machines: 25MHz 68020, HP MMU, 20MHz 68881 and VAC. - Compiles in support for a VAC and the HP MMU. Differs from HP320 in - that it has no support for 16-bit DMA controller. - -HP330 - Support for HP330 (and 318, 319) machines: 16MHz 68020, 68851 PMMU - and 16MHz 68881. Compiles in support for PMMU. - -HP340 - Support for HP340 machines: 25MHz 68030+MMU and 25MHz 68882. Compiles - in support for PMMU and 68030. Differs from HP330 in support for - 68030 on-chip data cache. - -HP345 -HP360 -HP370 -HP375 -HP400 - Support for HP345, 360, 370, 375 and 400 machines: 33 (or 50) MHz - 68030+MMU and 33 (or 50) MHz 68882. Compiles in support for PMMU, - 68030 and off-chip physically addressed cache. Differs from 340 - in only one place, in dealing with flushing the external cache. - -HP380 -HP385 -HP425 -HP433 - Support for HP380, 385, 425 and 433 machines: 25 (or 33) MHz 68040 - with MMU/FPU. Compiles in support for 68040. - -USELEDS - Twinkle the HP4xx front panel (or HP3xx internal) LEDs in the HP - designated way. Somewhat frivolous, but the heartbeat LED is - useful to see if your machine is alive. - -DEBUG - Compiles in a variety of consistency checks and debug printfs - throughout the hp300 MD code and device drivers. - -COMPAT_HPUX - Enables HP-UX binary compatibility mode. Allows a variety of - "recent" HP-UX m68k binaries to be run unchanged. Due to the - evolutionary and "as-needed" nature of this code, "recent" is - anywhere from release 6.2 to 8.0 of HP-UX. It will run 8.0 - shared-library binaries (assuming all the necessary shared-libraries - are installed in the filesystem). - -DCMSTATS - Compile in code to collect a variety of transmit/receive statistics - for the 98642 4-port MUX. - -WAITHIST - Compile in code to collect statistics about the distribution of - wait-times for various busy waits in the SCSI host-adaptor driver. diff --git a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/README b/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/README deleted file mode 100644 index 33c94691754..00000000000 --- a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ -$OpenBSD: README,v 1.3 2001/12/06 01:02:50 miod Exp $ -$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1994/10/26 07:22:55 cgd Exp $ - -This directory contains random snippets related to various hp300 issues. - -Debug.tips Some tips for debugging kernel problems. Out of date but - may contains some useful info. - -HPMMU.notes Most of this information was collected by David Davis in - 1987 or so while he was working on hp200/300 BSD. - -Options Kernel configuration options that are either defined in - the prototype makefile or that can be specified in a config - file. - -README This. - -TODO.dev A fairly ancient list of projects related to IO devices. - -TODO.hp300 A much more up do date list of general hp300 projects. - -Mike Hibler (mike@cs.utah.edu) -Center for Software Science -University of Utah -February, 1993. diff --git a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/TODO.dev b/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/TODO.dev deleted file mode 100644 index acd5b490e81..00000000000 --- a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/TODO.dev +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -$OpenBSD: TODO.dev,v 1.2 1997/01/12 15:12:11 downsj Exp $ -$NetBSD: TODO.dev,v 1.2 1994/10/26 07:22:57 cgd Exp $ - -[ this is old -- mike ] - -Oh, where do I begin... - -1. Integrate 98628A (single port buffered RS232) driver. -2. Integrate 1/2" 9-track reel tape driver (from Mt Xinu). -3. SCSI: sync support and connect/disconnect. -4. VME/EISA adaptor drivers needed. -5. Centronics driver for 345/375. -6. HP-IB (SCSI?) improvement: attempt to get more activity on a single - bus (e.g. overlap seeks with transfers). -7. Support for more modern (post-DaVinci) displays. - ----- -Mike Hibler -University of Utah CSS group -mike@cs.utah.edu diff --git a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/TODO.hp300 b/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/TODO.hp300 deleted file mode 100644 index 7c5ea196302..00000000000 --- a/sys/arch/hp300/DOC/TODO.hp300 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,88 +0,0 @@ -$OpenBSD: TODO.hp300,v 1.2 1997/01/12 15:12:12 downsj Exp $ -$NetBSD: TODO.hp300,v 1.2 1994/10/26 07:22:59 cgd Exp $ - -1. Create and use an interrupt stack. - Well actually, use the master SP for kernel stacks instead of - the interrupt SP. Right now we use the interrupt stack for - everything. Allows for more accurate accounting of systime. - In theory, could also allow for smaller kernel stacks but we - only use one page anyway. - -2. Copy/clear primitives could be tuned. - What is best is highly CPU and cache dependent. One thing to look - at are the copyin/copyout primitives. Rather than looping using - MOVS instructions, you could map an entire page at a time and use - bcopy, MOVE16, or whatever. This would lose big on the VAC models - however. - -3. Sendsig/sigreturn are pretty bogus. - Currently we can call a signal handler even if an excpetion - occurs in the middle of an instruction. This causes the handler - to return right back to the middle of the offending instruction - which will most likely lead to another exception/signal. - Technically, I feel this is the correct behavior but it requires - saving a lot of state on the user's stack, state that we don't - really want the user messing with. Other 68k implementations - (e.g. Sun) will delay signals or abort execution of the current - instruction to reduce saved state. Even if we stick with the - current philosophy, the code could be cleaned up. - -4. Ditto for AST and software interrupt emulation. - Both are possibly over-elaborate and inefficiently implemented. - We could possibly handle them by using an appropriately planted - PS trace bit. - -5. Make use of transparent translation registers on 030/040 MMU. - With a little rearranging of the KVA space we could use one to - map the entire external IO space [ 600000 - 20000000 ). Since - the translation must be 1-1, this would limit the kernel to 6mb - (some would say that is hardly a limit) or divide it into two - pieces. Another promising use would be to map physical memory - within the kernel. This allows a much simpler and more efficient - implementation of /dev/mem, pmap_zero_page, pmap_copy_page and - possible even kernel-user cross address space copies. However, - it does eat up a significant piece of kernel address space. - -6. Create a 32-bit timer. - Timers 2 and 3 on the MC6840 clock chip can be concatonated together to - get a 32-bit countdown timer. There are at least three uses for this: - 1. Monitoring the interval timer ("clock") to detect lost "ticks". - (Idea from Scott Marovich) - 2. Implement the DELAY macro properly instead of approximating with - the current "while (--count);" loop. Because of caches, the current - method is potentially way off. - 3. Export as a user-mappable timer for high-precision (4us) timing. - Note that by doing this we can no longer use timer 3 as a separate - statistics/profiling timer. Should be able to compile-time (runtime?) - select between the two. - -7. Conditional MMU code sould be restructured. - Right now it reflects the evolutionary path of the code: 320/350 MMU - was supported and PMMU support was glued on. The latter can be ifdef'ed - out when not needed, but not all of the former (e.g. ``mmutype'' tests). - Also, PMMU is made to look like the HP MMU somewhat ham-stringing it. - Since HP MMU models are dead, the excess baggage should be there (though - it could be argued that they benefit more from the minor performance - impact). MMU code should probably not be ifdef'ed on model type, but - rather on more relevant tags (e.g. MMU_HP, MMU_MOTO). - -8. Redo cache handling. - There are way too many routines which are specific to particular - cache types. We should be able to come up with a more coherent - scheme (though HP 68k boxes have just about every caching scheme - imaginable: internal/external, physical/virtual, writeback/writethrough) - See, for example, Wheeler and Bershad in ASPLOS 92. - -9. Sort the free page list. - The DMA hardware on the 300 cannot do scatter/gather IO. For example, - if an 8k system buffer consists of two non-contiguous physical pages - it will require two DMA transfers (and hence two interrupts) to do the - operation. It would take only one transfer if they were physically - contiguous. By keeping the free list ordered we could potentially - allocate contiguous pages and reduce the number of interrupts. We can - consider doing this since pages in the free list are not reclaimed and - thus we don't have to worry about distorting any LRU behavior. ----- -Mike Hibler -University of Utah CSS group -mike@cs.utah.edu |