The Cache entries found in `DiskBackedFileSystem` are now stored in a
`KBuffer` object, instead of relying on `kmalloc_eternal`. The number
of entries was exceeding that of the number of bytes allocated to
`kmalloc_eternal`, which in turn caused `mount()` to fail epically
when called.
If we want to make a new entry in the disk cache when it's completely
full of dirty blocks, we'll now synchronously flush the writes at that
point. Maybe it's not ideal, but at least we can keep going.
This way clients are not required to have instantiated ByteBuffers
and can choose whatever memory scheme works best for them.
Also converted some of the Ext2FS code to use stack buffers instead.
Instead of having DiskBackedFS allocate a ByteBuffer, leave it to each
client to provide buffer space.
This is significantly faster in many cases where we can use a stack
buffer and avoid heap allocation entirely.
The hashmap cache was ridiculously slow and hurt us more than it helped
us. This patch replaces it with a flat memory cache that keeps up to
10'000 blocks in cache with a simple dirty bit.
The syncd task will wake up periodically and call flush_writes() on all
file systems, which now causes us to traverse the cache and write all
dirty blocks to disk.
There's a ton of room for improvement here, but this itself is already
drastically better when doing repeated GCC invocations.
This is prep work for supporting HashMap with NonnullRefPtr<T> as values.
It's currently not possible because many HashTable functions require being
able to default-construct the value type.
This is just to avoid chewing through all of the kernel memory. There is a
lot of room for improvement here, and 32 is just a number from the place
where numbers come from.
This way you can spam small write()s on a file without the kernel writing
to disk every single time. Flushes are included in the FS::sync() operation
and will get triggered regularly by syncd. :^)