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Brian Behlendorf d9acd930b5 taskq delay/cancel functionality
Add the ability to dispatch a delayed task to a taskq.  The desired
behavior is for the task to be queued but not executed by a worker
thread until the expiration time is reached.  To achieve this two
new functions were added.

* taskq_dispatch_delay() -

  This function behaves exactly like taskq_dispatch() however it
takes a third 'expire_time' argument.  The caller should pass the
desired time the task should be executed as an absolute value in
jiffies.  The task is guarenteed not to run before this time, it
may run slightly latter if all the worker threads are busy.

* taskq_cancel_id() -

  Given a task id attempt to cancel the task before it gets executed.
This is primarily useful for canceling delay tasks but can be used for
canceling any previously dispatched task.  There are three possible
return values.

  0      - The task was found and canceled before it was executed.
  ENOENT - The task was not found, either it was already run or an
           invalid task id was supplied by the caller.
  EBUSY  - The task is currently executing any may not be canceled.
           This function will block until the task has been completed.

* taskq_wait_all() -

  The taskq_wait_id() function was renamed taskq_wait_all() to more
clearly reflect its actual behavior.  It is only curreny used by
the splat taskq regression tests.

* taskq_wait_id() -

  Historically, the only difference between this function and
taskq_wait() was that you passed the task id.  In both functions you
would block until ALL lower task ids which executed.  This was
semantically correct but could be very slow particularly if there
were delay tasks submitted.

  To better accomidate the delay tasks this function was reimplemnted.
It will now only block until the passed task id has been completed.

This is actually a fairly low risk change for a few reasons.

* Only new ZFS callers will make use of the new interfaces and
  very little common code was changed to support the new functions.

* The existing taskq_wait() implementation was not changed just
  slightly refactored.

* The newly optimized taskq_wait_id() implementation was never
  used by ZFS we can't accidentally introduce a new bug there.

NOTE: This functionality does not exist in the Illumos taskqs.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-12-12 09:54:07 -08:00
cmd splat command verbose behavior 2012-12-11 15:08:19 -08:00
config Verify --with-linux source directory exists 2012-11-29 15:05:54 -08:00
include taskq delay/cancel functionality 2012-12-12 09:54:07 -08:00
lib Remove autotools products 2012-08-27 11:46:23 -07:00
module taskq delay/cancel functionality 2012-12-12 09:54:07 -08:00
patches Reimplement rwlocks for Linux lock profiling/analysis. 2009-09-18 16:09:47 -07:00
scripts Remove autotools products 2012-08-27 11:46:23 -07:00
.gitignore Remove autotools products 2012-09-11 10:12:47 -07:00
AUTHORS Public Release Prep 2010-05-17 15:18:00 -07:00
COPYING Public Release Prep 2010-05-17 15:18:00 -07:00
ChangeLog Prep for spl-0.5.0 tag 2010-08-13 09:33:50 -07:00
DISCLAIMER Public Release Prep 2010-05-17 15:18:00 -07:00
INSTALL Public Release Prep 2010-05-17 15:18:00 -07:00
META SPL 0.6.0-rc12 2012-11-13 14:28:25 -08:00
Makefile.am Add copy-builtin to EXTRA_DIST 2012-08-23 09:59:40 -07:00
PKGBUILD-spl-modules.in Add make rule for building Arch Linux packages 2011-12-14 16:44:10 -08:00
PKGBUILD-spl.in Add make rule for building Arch Linux packages 2011-12-14 16:44:10 -08:00
README.markdown Add script for builtin module building. 2012-07-26 15:13:09 -07:00
autogen.sh Remove autotools products 2012-08-27 11:46:23 -07:00
configure.ac Support building a spl-modules-dkms sub package 2012-08-08 13:49:40 -07:00
copy-builtin Add script for builtin module building. 2012-07-26 15:13:09 -07:00
dkms.conf.in Support building a spl-modules-dkms sub package 2012-08-08 13:49:40 -07:00
dkms.postinst Support building a spl-modules-dkms sub package 2012-08-08 13:49:40 -07:00
spl-modules.spec.in Cleanly remove spl-modules-devel headers 2012-08-13 16:34:32 -07:00
spl.release.in Move spl.release generation to configure step 2012-07-12 12:13:47 -07:00
spl.spec.in Fix rpm dependencies 2012-01-18 11:24:36 -08:00

README.markdown

The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Solaris development closely and dont want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives.

To build packages for your distribution:

$ ./configure
$ make pkg

To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin compilation:

$ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
$ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...

Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org