Reimplement efile_drv as a dirty NIF

This improves the latency of file operations as dirty schedulers
are a bit more eager to run jobs than async threads, and use a
single global queue rather than per-thread queues, eliminating the
risk of a job stalling behind a long-running job on the same thread
while other async threads sit idle.

There's no such thing as a free lunch though; the lowered latency
comes at the cost of increased busy-waiting which may have an
adverse effect on some applications. This behavior can be tweaked
with the +sbwt flag, but unfortunately it affects all types of
schedulers and not just dirty ones. We plan to add type-specific
flags at a later stage.

sendfile has been moved to inet_drv to lessen the effect of a nasty
race; the cooperation between inet_drv and efile has never been
airtight and the socket dying at the wrong time (Regardless of
reason) could result in fd aliasing. Moving it to the inet driver
makes it impossible to trigger this by closing the socket in the
middle of a sendfile operation, while still allowing it to be
aborted -- something that can't be done if it stays in the file
driver.

The race still occurs if the controlling process dies in the short
window between dispatching the sendfile operation and the dup(2)
call in the driver, but it's much less likely to happen now.

A proper fix is in the works.

--

Notable functional differences:

* The use_threads option for file:sendfile/5 no longer has any
  effect.

* The file-specific DTrace probes have been removed. The same
  effect can be achieved with normal tracing together with the
  nif__entry/nif__return probes to track scheduling.

--

OTP-14256

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/raw_file_io_raw.erl b/lib/kernel/src/raw_file_io_raw.erl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9a9fe78eb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/raw_file_io_raw.erl
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+%%
+%% %CopyrightBegin%
+%%
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 2017. All Rights Reserved.
+%%
+%% Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+%% you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+%% You may obtain a copy of the License at
+%%
+%%     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+%%
+%% Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+%% distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+%% WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+%% See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+%% limitations under the License.
+%%
+%% %CopyrightEnd%
+%%
+-module(raw_file_io_raw).
+
+-export([open_layer/3]).
+
+open_layer(Filename, Modes, [raw]) ->
+    prim_file:open(Filename, [raw | Modes]).