To avoid a potential deadlock when using a zvol as a swap
device prevent vdev_disk_io_flush() from performing IO during
the bio_alloc().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1508
The zpool_read_label() function was subtly broken due to a
difference of behavior in fstat64(2) on Solaris vs Linux.
Under Solaris when a block device is stat'ed the st_size
field will contain the size of the device in bytes. Under
Linux this is only true for regular file and symlinks. A
compatibility function called fstat64_blk(2) was added
which can be used when the Solaris behavior is required.
This flaw was never noticed because the only time we would
need to use the device size is when the first two labels
are damaged. I noticed this issue while adding the
zpool_clear_label() function which is similar in design
and does require us to write all the labels.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The FreeBSD implementation of zfs adds the 'zpool labelclear'
command. Since this functionality is helpful and straight
forward to add it is being included in ZoL.
References:
freebsd/freebsd@119a041dc9
Ported-by: Dmitry Khasanov <pik4ez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1126
This patch restores the zpool_clear_label() function from
OpenSolaris. This was removed by commit d603ed6 because
it wasn't clear we had a use for it in ZoL. However, this
functionality is a prerequisite for adding the 'zpool labelclear'
command from FreeBSD.
As part of bringing this change in the zpool_clear_label()
function was changed to use fstat64_blk(2) for compatibility
with Linux.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1126
If the znode has SA xattrs, display them following the other
standard attributes. The format used is similar to that used
when listing the contents of a ZAP. It is as follows:
$ zdb -vvv <pool>/<dataset> <object>
...
SA xattrs: <size> bytes, <number> entries
<name1> = <value1>
<name2> = <value2>
...
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1581
Make sure that buffer is aligned to 512 bytes on linux so that
pread call combined with O_DIRECT does not return EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1570
When we remove references of arc bufs in the arc_anon state we
needn't take its header's hash_lock, so postpone it to where we
really need it to avoid unnecessary invocations of function buf_hash.
Signed-off-by: Ying Zhu <casualfisher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1557
There are times when it is desirable for zfs to not automatically
populate the spa namespace at module load time using the pools
in the /etc/zfs/zpool.cache file. The zfs_autoimport_disable
module option has been added to control this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #330
For "zpool events -f" flush stdout to ensure the last zevent
is always printed immediately.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1568
Linux kernel commit torvalds/linux@db2a144 changed the return type
of block_device_operations->release() to void. Detect the expected
prototype and defined our callout accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1494
Unconditionally exit with zero to avoid returning failures
from the scriptlets. This should have been part of the
previous ba661a6 commit.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1376
Prior to adopting the kmod style packaging the zfs packages
would conditionally invoke /sbin/chkconfig to create the
proper links for the init script. This is done conditionally
because many distributions are moving away from SysV style
init scripts and we don't want to cause errors on those.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1376
Remove from the zfs package the depenencies on the zfs-dracut and
zfs-test subpackages. Neither of these packages are required for
normal operation and they bring in many unnecessary dependencies
during installation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1395
One of the side effects of calling zvol_create_minors() in
zvol_init() is that all pools listed in the cache file will
be opened. Depending on the state and contents of your pool
this operation can take a considerable length of time.
Doing this at load time is undesirable because the kernel
is holding a global module lock. This prevents other modules
from loading and can serialize an otherwise parallel boot
process. Doing this after module inititialization also
reduces the chances of accidentally introducing a race
during module init.
To ensure that /dev/zvol/<pool>/<dataset> devices are
still automatically created after the module load completes
a udev rules has been added. When udev notices that the
/dev/zfs device has been create the 'zpool list' command
will be run. This then will cause all the pools listed
in the zpool.cache file to be opened.
Because this process in now driven asynchronously by udev
there is the risk of problems in downstream distributions.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #756
Issue #1020
Issue #1234
The following error will occur on some (possibly all) kernels
because blk_init_queue() will try to take the spinlock before
we initialize it.
BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, zpool/4054
lock: 0xffff88021a73de60, .magic: 00000000,
.owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
Pid: 4054, comm: zpool Not tainted 3.9.3 #11
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81478ef8>] spin_dump+0x8c/0x91
[<ffffffff81478f1e>] spin_bug+0x21/0x26
[<ffffffff812da097>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x127/0x130
[<ffffffff8147d851>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x21/0x30
[<ffffffff812c2c1e>] cfq_init_queue+0x1fe/0x350
[<ffffffff812aacb8>] elevator_init+0x78/0x140
[<ffffffff812b2677>] blk_init_allocated_queue+0x87/0xb0
[<ffffffff812b26d5>] blk_init_queue_node+0x35/0x70
[<ffffffff812b271e>] blk_init_queue+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8125211b>] __zvol_create_minor+0x24b/0x620
[<ffffffff81253264>] zvol_create_minors_cb+0x24/0x30
[<ffffffff811bd9ca>] dmu_objset_find_spa+0xea/0x510
[<ffffffff811bda71>] dmu_objset_find_spa+0x191/0x510
[<ffffffff81253ea2>] zvol_create_minors+0x92/0x180
[<ffffffff811f8d80>] spa_open_common+0x250/0x380
[<ffffffff811f8ece>] spa_open+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8122817e>] pool_status_check.part.22+0x1e/0x80
[<ffffffff81228a55>] zfsdev_ioctl+0x155/0x190
[<ffffffff8116a695>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x325/0x5a0
[<ffffffff8116a950>] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x80
[<ffffffff814812c9>] ? do_page_fault+0x9/0x10
[<ffffffff81483929>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
zd0: unknown partition table
We fix this by calling spin_lock_init before blk_init_queue.
The manner in which zvol_init() initializes structures is
suspectible to a race between initialization and a probe on
a zvol. We reorganize zvol_init() to prevent that.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
There is an extremely odd bug that causes zvols to fail to appear on
some systems, but not others. Recently, I was able to consistently
reproduce this issue over a period of 1 month. The issue disappeared
after I applied this change from FreeBSD.
This is from FreeBSD's pool version 28 import, which occurred in
revision 219089.
Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #441
Issue #599
A mount failure was accidentally introduced by commit 0c1171d
which reworked the parse_dataset() function to read pool names
from devices. The error case where a label is read from the
device but the pool name/value pair doesn't exist was not
handled properly. In this case we should fall back to the
previous behavior.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1560
3122 zfs destroy filesystem should prefetch blocks
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
References:
illumos/illumos-gate@b4709335aahttps://www.illumos.org/issues/3122
Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1565
This silences a GCC 4.8.0 warning by fixing a programming error
caught by static analysis:
../../cmd/ztest/ztest.c: In function ‘ztest_vdev_aux_add_remove’:
../../cmd/ztest/ztest.c:2584:33: error: argument to ‘sizeof’
in ‘snprintf’ call is the same expression as the destination;
did you mean to provide an explicit length?
[-Werror=sizeof-pointer-memaccess]
(void) snprintf(path, sizeof (path), ztest_aux_template,
^
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1480
Commit 55d85d5a8c (backport of
the upstream changes) replaced three hardcoded constants:
#define SYNC_PASS_DEFERRED_FREE 2 /* defer frees after this pass */
#define SYNC_PASS_DONT_COMPRESS 4 /* don't compress after this pass */
#define SYNC_PASS_REWRITE 1 /* rewrite new bps after this pass */
with a tunable parameters:
int zfs_sync_pass_deferred_free = 2; /* defer frees starting in this pass */
int zfs_sync_pass_dont_compress = 5; /* don't compress starting in this pass */
int zfs_sync_pass_rewrite = 2; /* rewrite new bps starting in this pass */
This commit makes these tunables available as module parameters
in Linux. They should only be used for performance analysis
because changing them can result in subtle and pathological
performance problems.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1562
The approach taken was the rework zfs_holey() as little as
possible and then just wrap the code as needed to ensure
correct locking and error handling.
Tested with xfstests 285 and 286. All tests pass except for
7-9 of 285 which try to reserve blocks first via fallocate(2)
and fail because fallocate(2) is not yet supported.
Note that the filp->f_lock spinlock did not exist prior to
Linux 2.6.30, but we avoid the need for autotools check by
virtue of the fact that SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support was not
added until Linux 3.1.
An autoconf check was added for lseek_execute() which is
currently a private function but the expectation is that it
will be exported perhaps as early as Linux 3.11.
Reviewed-by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1384
This patch restores the zfs_holey() function from OpenSolaris.
This was removed by commit 3558fd7 because it wasn't clear we
had a use for it in ZoL. However, this functionality is a
prerequisite for adding SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support to the ZPL.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Issue #1384
By definitition these allocations will never fail. For
consistency with the rest of the code remove this dead error
handling code.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1558
Fix a pair of conditions in which a concurrent umount can cause
NULL pointer dereferences:
* zfs_sb_teardown - prevent a NULL dereference by not calling
dmu_objset_pool with a null z_os.
* zfs_resume_fs - don't try to unmount with a null z_os. This
change makes the ZoL code more consistent
with both Illumos and FreeBSD.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1543
When using zdb with non-default SPA config file it is not convenient
to add -U <non-default-config-file-path> all the time. This commit
introduces support for setting/overriding SPA config location via
environment variable 'SPA_CONFIG_PATH'.
If -U flag is specified in the command line it will override any other
value as usual.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1545
The zpool command should not silently fail when the /etc/mtab
file does not exist. This can occur in an initramfs environment
when the /etc/mtab file hasn't yet been generated.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1541
Previous commit 7ef5e54e2e caused
module probe failure on 32-bit systems, dmesg showed
Unknown symbol __moddi3
This was caused by the modulo operation 'gethrtime() % tqs->stqs_count'
in the committed code. Instead of implementing __moddi3 for all 32-bit
systems, Behlendorf advised we can just cast the return value of
gethrtime() into a uint64_t, since gethrtime does not return negative
value on all circumstances we need not care about the potential overflow.
Signed-off-by: Ying Zhu <casualfisher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1551
Until these hooks are fully implemented return the expected
-EOPNOTSUPP error to indicate they are not functional. This
allows test suites such as xfstests to cleanly skip testing
this functionality until it's implemented.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #229
To simplify integration with the xfstests test suite the
mount.zfs helper has been extended. When passed a block
device (/dev/sdX) to mount, instead of a pool/dataset,
the pool name will be read from any existing zfs label
and used. This allows you to mount the root dataset of
a zfs filesystem by specifing any of the member vdevs.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
This adds ability to set the location of spl via defines when
building from the spec files. This is useful for build systems
that build spl and zfs together without installing the actual rpms.
Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Clark <Nathaniel.Clark@misrule.us>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1486
The non-blocking allocation handlers in nvlist_alloc() would be
mistakenly assigned if any flags other than KM_SLEEP were passed.
This meant that nvlists allocated with KM_PUSHPUSH or other KM_*
debug flags were effectively always using atomic allocations.
While these failures were unlikely it could lead to assertions
because KM_PUSHPAGE allocations in particular are guaranteed to
succeed or block. They must never fail.
Since the existing API does not allow us to pass allocation
flags to the private allocators the cleanest thing to do is to
add a KM_PUSHPAGE allocator.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closeszfsonlinux/spl#249
3805 arc shouldn't cache freed blocks
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Elling <richard.elling@dey-sys.com>
Reviewed by: Will Andrews <will@firepipe.net>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@nexenta.com>
References:
illumos/illumos-gate@6e6d5868f5https://www.illumos.org/issues/3805
ZFS should proactively evict freed blocks from the cache.
On dcenter, we saw that we were caching ~256GB of metadata, while the
pool only had <4GB of metadata on disk. We were wasting about half the
system's RAM (252GB) on blocks that have been freed.
Even though these freed blocks will never be used again, and thus will
eventually be evicted, this causes us to use memory inefficiently for 2
reasons:
1. A block that is freed has no chance of being accessed again, but will
be kept in memory preferentially to a block that was accessed before it
(and is thus older) but has not been freed and thus has at least some
chance of being accessed again.
2. We partition the ARC into several buckets:
user data that has been accessed only once (MRU)
metadata that has been accessed only once (MRU)
user data that has been accessed more than once (MFU)
metadata that has been accessed more than once (MFU)
The user data vs metadata split is somewhat arbitrary, and the primary
control on how much memory is used to cache data vs metadata is to
simply try to keep the proportion the same as it has been in the past
(each bucket "evicts against" itself). The secondary control is to
evict data before evicting metadata.
Because of this bucketing, we may end up with one bucket mostly
containing freed blocks that are very old, while another bucket has more
recently accessed, still-allocated blocks. Data in the useful bucket
(with still-allocated blocks) may be evicted in preference to data in
the useless bucket (with old, freed blocks).
On dcenter, we saw that the MFU metadata bucket was 230MB, while the MFU
data bucket was 27GB and the MRU metadata bucket was 256GB. However,
the vast majority of data in the MRU metadata bucket (256GB) was freed
blocks, and thus useless. Meanwhile, the MFU metadata bucket (230MB)
was constantly evicting useful blocks that will be soon needed.
The problem of cache segmentation is a larger problem that needs more
investigation. However, if we stop caching freed blocks, it should
reduce the impact of this more fundamental issue.
Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1503
The definition of zfs_vdev_holder casts VDEV_HOLDER into a function pointer
passing to linux kernel's block layer function blkdev_get_by_path.
However current VDEV_HOLDER is defined to be wider than 32 bits and the compiler
warns about potential overflows. Instead of specifying different values for 32-bit and
64-bit systems using ifdefs, choose the common factor 32-bit addresses.
Redefine VDEV_HOLDER to 0x2401de7("zholder") here.
Signed-off-by: Ying Zhu <casualfisher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1520
3552 condensing one space map burns 3 seconds of CPU in spa_sync() thread
3564 spa_sync() spends 5-10% of its time in metaslab_sync() (when not condensing)
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
References:
illumos/illumos-gate@16a4a80742https://www.illumos.org/issues/3552https://www.illumos.org/issues/3564
Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1513
3006 VERIFY[S,U,P] and ASSERT[S,U,P] frequently check if first
argument is zero
Reviewed by Matt Ahrens <matthew.ahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
References:
illumos/illumos-gate@fb09f5aad4https://illumos.org/issues/3006
Requires:
zfsonlinux/spl@1c6d149feb
Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1509
The current zfs OpenRC script's dependencies cause OpenRC to attempt to
unmount ZFS filesystems at shutdown while things were still using them,
which would fail. This is a cosmetic issue, but it should still be
addressed. It probably does not affect systems where the rootfs is a
legacy filesystem, but any system with the rootfs on ZFS needs to run
the ZFS init script after the system is ready to shutdown filesystems.
OpenRC's shutdown process occurs in the reverse order of the startup
process. Therefore running the ZFS shutdown procedure after filesystems
are ready to be unmounted requires running the startup procedure before
fstab. This patch changes the dependencies of the script to expliclty
run before fstab at boot when the rootfs is ZFS and to run after fstab
at boot whenever the rootfs is not ZFS. This should cover most use
cases.
The only cases not covered well by this are systems with legacy
root filesystems where people want to configure fstab to mount a non-ZFS
filesystem off a zvol and possibly also systems whose pools are stored
on network block devices. The former requires that the ZFS script run
before fstab, which could cause ZFS datasets to mount too early and
appear under the fstab mount points. The latter requires that the ZFS
script run after networking starts, which precludes the ability to store
any system information on ZFS. An additional OpenRC script could be
written to handle non-root pools on network block devices, but that will
depend on user demand and developer time.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1479
* Modified kstat_update() to read arcstats from proc.
* Fix shebang.
* Added Makefile.am entries for arcstat.py
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1506
When calling mount(), care must be taken to avoid passing in flags
that are used only by the user space utilities. Otherwise we may
stomp on flags that are reserved for other purposes in the kernel.
In particular, openSUSE 12.3 kernels have added a new MS_RICHACL
super-block flag whose value conflicts with our MS_COMMENT flag. This
causes incorrect behavior such as the umask being ignored. The
MS_COMMENT flag essentially serves as a placeholder in the option_map
data structure of zfs_mount.c, but its value is never used. Therefore
we can avoid the conflict by defining it to 0.
The MS_USERS, MS_OWNER, and MS_GROUP flags also conflict with reserved
flags in the kernel. While this is not known to have caused any
problems, it is nevertheless incorrect. For the purposes of the
mount.zfs helper, the "users", "owner", and "group" options just serve
as hints to set additional implied options. Therefore we now define
their associated mount flags in terms of the options that they imply
rather than giving them unique values.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1457
Adds zpool split documentation to the zpool man page. I only documented
the options that I could get to work. While it is documented on some
sun blogs that devices can be specified for split, I was not able to get
that to work during my testing.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1456
When SA xattrs are enabled only fallback to checking the directory
xattrs when the name is not found as a SA xattr. Otherwise, the SA
error which should be returned to the caller is overwritten by the
directory xattr errors. Positive return values indicating success
will also be immediately returned.
In the case of #1437 the ERANGE error was being correctly returned
by zpl_xattr_get_sa() only to be overridden with ENOENT which was
returned by the subsequent unnessisary call to zpl_xattr_get_dir().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1437
As a part of scrub/resilver tuning zfs_scrub_limit fell out of use,
but the definition of the variable remained in place.
Moreover various guides still (misleadingly) mention it as a way
to influence resilver/scrub behavior.
This commit removes its finally.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko@mountall.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1444
The assertions in ddt_phys_decref and ddt_sync_entry cast ddp->ddp_refcnt
from uint64_t to int64_t, with a reference count bigger than 2^63, e.g. the
reference count of zero blocks commonly available in spare files, we may
mistakenly hit these assertations, so drop the type conversions here.
Signed-off-by: Ying Zhu <casualfisher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1436
The vn_rdwr() function performs I/O by calling the vfs_write() or
vfs_read() functions. These functions reside just below the system
call layer and the expectation is they have almost the entire 8k of
stack space to work with. In fact, certain layered configurations
such as ext+lvm+md+multipath require the majority of this stack to
avoid stack overflows.
To avoid this posibility the vn_rdwr() call in dump_bytes() has been
moved to the ZIO_TYPE_FREE, taskq. This ensures that all I/O will be
performed with the majority of the stack space available. This ends
up being very similiar to as if the I/O were issued via sys_write()
or sys_read().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1399Closes#1423
3581 spa_zio_taskq[ZIO_TYPE_FREE][ZIO_TASKQ_ISSUE]->tq_lock is piping hot
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Gordon Ross <gordon.ross@nexenta.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
References:
illumos/illumos-gate@ec94d32https://illumos.org/issues/3581
Notes for Linux port:
Earlier commit 08d08eb reduced contention on this taskq lock by simply
reducing the number of z_fr_iss threads from 100 to one-per-CPU. We
also optimized the taskq implementation in zfsonlinux/spl@3c6ed54.
These changes significantly improved unlink performance to acceptable
levels.
This patch further reduces time spent spinning on this lock by
randomly dispatching the work items over multiple independent task
queues. The Illumos ZFS developers stated that this lock contention
only arose after "3329 spa_sync() spends 10-20% of its time in
spa_free_sync_cb()" was landed. It's not clear if 3329 affects the
Linux port or not. I didn't see spa_free_sync_cb() show up in
oprofile sessions while unlinking large files, but I may just not
have used the right test case.
I tested unlinking a 1 TB of data with and without the patch and
didn't observe a meaningful difference in elapsed time. However,
oprofile showed that the percent time spent in taskq_thread() was
reduced from about 16% to about 5%. Aside from a possible slight
performance benefit this may be worth landing if only for the sake of
maintaining consistency with upstream.
Ported-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Closes#1327
Brian Behlendorf