Until now, our kernel has reimplemented a number of AK classes to
provide automatic internal locking:
- RefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr
- WeakPtr
- Weakable
This patch renames the Kernel classes so that they can coexist with
the original AK classes:
- RefPtr => LockRefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr => NonnullLockRefPtr
- WeakPtr => LockWeakPtr
- Weakable => LockWeakable
The goal here is to eventually get rid of the Lock* classes in favor of
using external locking.
Each of these strings would previously rely on StringView's char const*
constructor overload, which would call __builtin_strlen on the string.
Since we now have operator ""sv, we can replace these with much simpler
versions. This opens the door to being able to remove
StringView(char const*).
No functional changes.
We were frequently dropping packets when downloading large files.
Then we had to wait for TCP retransmission which slowed things down.
This patch dramatically improves E1000 throughput by increasing the
number of RX/TX buffers from 32/8 to 256/256.
The largest chunk of JavaScript from Discord now downloads in roughly
1 second instead of 7 seconds. :^)
Calls to link_up() in the E1000 driver would read the link state
directly from the hardware on every call. This had negative
performance impact in high throughput situations since link_up()
is called every time an IP packet's route is resolved.
This patch takes inspiration from the RTL8139 network adapter where
the link state is stored in a bool and only updated when the hardware
generates an interrupt related to link state change.
After this change I measured a ~9% increase in TCP Tx throughput
using:
cat /dev/zero | nc <host_IP> <host_port> from the Serenity VM to my
host machine
