On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:41:45PM +0200, P=E5l Halvorsen wrote:
>
>  > I'm reading data from a memory file system (mfs), due to bad performan=
ce
>  > of my single-disk storage system, and when monitoring the
>  > operations, it seems like the VOP_STRATEGY in bio_read() is not called=
=2E
>  > However, getblk() is called. Why?
>  > Should VOP_STRATEGY be called (is my counter wrong)?
>  >
>  > How does the read operates on a mfs? Is the memory blocks containing
>  > data only mapped into the buf structures, e.g., using UVM's page loano=
ut
>  > or map entry passing?
>
> Neither.  The current MFS implementation is somewhat of a hack.

Where can I find the code for mfs?

> Basically, MFS is really just FFS (seriously, it uses all of the FFS
> file system code), but merely provides a different backing store for
> that FFS -- instead of a disk, it uses the address space of a process.

OK, I knew this, but where is the code that calls the mfs  to copy data
into the buf structure's data area - i have a monitor in bio_read() called
from ffs_read (READ() in ufs_readwite.c) --??? I'm sitting remote and
cant check the code-- and it looks like VOP_STRATEGY is not called.

I might put another monitor here...

Thanks,
-ph

> When I/O to that backing store is to be done, it queues the buffer, wakes
> up the process holding the MFS backing store, which then performs a copyi=
n/
> copyout from the process's user address space to the buffer, and biodone'=
s
> that buffer.
>
> It was done this way to allow the space used by the file system to be
> pageable -- it just gets put in swap space.
>
> There are arguably much better ways to write a memory-based file system.
> But as I understand it, MFS was written this way originally for a couple
> of reasons:
>
> =09- As a way to demonstrate how alternate backing store
> =09  for FFS worked.
>
> =09- It was quick and easy.

-ph
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