This reverts commit a5c20e2a0a which
accidentally introduced a regression for real 4k sector devices.
See issue #1065 for details.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1065
The following warning was originally added to provide visibility
in to how often a dio gets heavily fragmented in to over 16 bios.
This can happen due to constraints imposed by the block device
and may have a negitive impact on performance but is otherwise
harmless. To prevent needless confusion and worry the message
has been removed.
kernel: WARNING: Resized bio's/dio to 32
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
When automounting a snapshot in the .zfs/snapshot directory
make sure to quote both the dataset name and the mount point.
This ensures that if either component contains spaces, which
are allowed, they get handled correctly.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1027
In the current code, logbias=throughput implies the following:
1) All synchronous writes are logged in indirect mode.
2) The slog is not used.
(1) makes sense because it avoids writing the data twice, which is
obviously a good thing when the user wants maximum pool throughput.
(2), however, is a surprising decision. Considering all writes are
indirect, the log record doesn't contain the actual data, only pointers
to DMU blocks. As a result, log records written in logbias=throughput
mode are quite small, and as such, it doesn't make any sense to write
them to the main pool since slogs are usually optimized for small
synchronous writes.
In fact, the current behavior is actually harmful for performance,
because log blocks and data blocks from dmu_sync() seldom have the same
allocation size and as a result are usually allocated from different
metaslabs. This means that if a spindle has to write both log blocks and
DMU blocks (which is likely to happen under heavy load), it will have to
seek between the two. Allocating the log blocks from the slog pool
instead of the main pool avoids these unnecessary seeks.
This commit makes ZFS use the slog on datasets with logbias=throughput.
Real-life performance testing shows a 50% synchronous write performance
increase with some large commit sizes, and no negative effect in other
cases.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1013
Currently, ZIL blocks are spread over vdevs using hint block pointers
managed by the ZIL commit code and passed to metaslab_alloc(). Spreading
log blocks accross vdevs is important for performance: indeed, using
mutliple disks in parallel decreases the ZIL commit latency, which is
the main performance metric for synchronous writes. However, the current
implementation suffers from the following issues:
1) It would be best if the ZIL module was not aware of such low-level
details. They should be handled by the ZIO and metaslab modules;
2) Because the hint block pointer is managed per log, simultaneous
commits from multiple logs might use the same vdevs at the same time,
which is inefficient;
3) Because dmu_write() does not honor the block pointer hint, indirect
writes are not spread.
The naive solution of rotating the metaslab rotor each time a block is
allocated for the ZIL or dmu_sync() doesn't work in practice because the
first ZIL block to be written is actually allocated during the previous
commit. Consequently, when metaslab_alloc() decides the vdev for this
block, it will do so while a bunch of other allocations are happening at
the same time (from dmu_sync() and other ZILs). This means the vdev for
this block is chosen more or less at random. When the next commit
happens, there is a high chance (especially when the number of blocks
per commit is slightly less than the number of the disks) that one disk
will have to write two blocks (with a potential seek) while other disks
are sitting idle, which defeats spreading and increases the commit
latency.
This commit introduces a new concept in the metaslab allocator:
fastwrites. Basically, each top-level vdev maintains a counter
indicating the number of synchronous writes (from dmu_sync() and the
ZIL) which have been allocated but not yet completed. When the metaslab
is called with the FASTWRITE flag, it will choose the vdev with the
least amount of pending synchronous writes. If there are multiple vdevs
with the same value, the first matching vdev (starting from the rotor)
is used. Once metaslab_alloc() has decided which vdev the block is
allocated to, it updates the fastwrite counter for this vdev.
The rationale goes like this: when an allocation is done with
FASTWRITE, it "reserves" the vdev until the data is written. Until then,
all future allocations will naturally avoid this vdev, even after a full
rotation of the rotor. As a result, pending synchronous writes at a
given point in time will be nicely spread over all vdevs. This contrasts
with the previous algorithm, which is based on the implicit assumption
that blocks are written instantaneously after they're allocated.
metaslab_fastwrite_mark() and metaslab_fastwrite_unmark() are used to
manually increase or decrease fastwrite counters, respectively. They
should be used with caution, as there is no per-BP tracking of fastwrite
information, so leaks and "double-unmarks" are possible. There is,
however, an assert in the vdev teardown code which will fire if the
fastwrite counters are not zero when the pool is exported or the vdev
removed. Note that as stated above, marking is also done implictly by
metaslab_alloc().
ZIO also got a new FASTWRITE flag; when it is used, ZIO will pass it to
the metaslab when allocating (assuming ZIO does the allocation, which is
only true in the case of dmu_sync). This flag will also trigger an
unmark when zio_done() fires.
A side-effect of the new algorithm is that when a ZIL stops being used,
its last block can stay in the pending state (allocated but not yet
written) for a long time, polluting the fastwrite counters. To avoid
that, I've implemented a somewhat crude but working solution which
unmarks these pending blocks in zil_sync(), thus guaranteeing that
linguering fastwrites will get pruned at each sync event.
The best performance improvements are observed with pools using a large
number of top-level vdevs and heavy synchronous write workflows
(especially indirect writes and concurrent writes from multiple ZILs).
Real-life testing shows a 200% to 300% performance increase with
indirect writes and various commit sizes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1013
The following incorrect usage of cv_broadcast() was caught by
code inspection. The cv_broadcast() function must be called
under the associated mutex to preventing racing with cv_wait().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The following incorrect usage of cv_signal and cv_broadcast()
was caught by code inspection. The cv_signal and cv_broadcast()
functions must be called under the associated mutex to preventing
racing with cv_wait().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The following incorrect usage of cv_broadcast() was caught by
code inspection. The cv_broadcast() function must be called
under the associated mutex to preventing racing with cv_wait().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
In this particular instance the allocation occurred in the context
of sys_msync()->...->zpl_putpage() where we must be careful not to
initiate additional I/O.
Signed-off-by: Massimo Maggi <massimo@mmmm.it>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1038
Prevent users from setting the zfs_vdev_aggregation_limit tuning
larger than SPA_MAXBLOCKSIZE.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#520
Otherwise it will cause zpl_shares_lookup() to return a invalid
pointer when an error occurs.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
Closes#626#885#947#977
As of Linux commit ebfc3b49a7ac25920cb5be5445f602e51d2ea559 the
struct nameidata is no longer passed to iops->create. Instead
only the result of (inamedata->flags & LOOKUP_EXCL) is passed.
ZFS like almost all Linux fileystems never made use of this so
only the prototype needs to be wrapped for compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #873
As of Linux commit 00cd8dd3bf95f2cc8435b4cac01d9995635c6d0b the
struct nameidata is no longer passed to iops->lookup. Instead
only the inamedata->flags are passed.
ZFS like almost all Linux fileystems never made use of this so
only the prototype needs to be wrapped for compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #873
As of Linux commit 9249e17fe094d853d1ef7475dd559a2cc7e23d42 the
mount flags are now passed to sget() so they can be used when
initializing a new superblock.
ZFS never uses sget() in this fashion so we can simply pass a
zero and add a zpl_sget() compatibility wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #873
The .write_super callback was removed the the super_operations
structure by Linux commit f0cd2dbb6cf387c11f87265462e370bb5469299e.
All file systems are now expected to self manage writing any dirty
state assoicated with their super block.
ZFS never made use of this callback so it can simply be removed
from the super_operations structure.
Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #873
Currently, the size of read and write requests on vdevs is aligned
according to the vdev's ashift, allocating a new ZIO buffer and padding
if need be.
This makes sense for write requests to prevent read/modify/write if the
write happens to be smaller than the device's internal block size.
For reads however, the rationale is less clear. It seems that the
original code aligns reads because, on Solaris, device drivers will
outright refuse unaligned requests.
We don't have that issue on Linux. Indeed, Linux block devices are able
to accept requests of any size, and take care of alignment issues
themselves.
As a result, there's no point in enforcing alignment for read requests
on Linux. This is a nice optimization opportunity for two reasons:
- We remove a memory allocation in a heavily-used code path;
- The request gets aligned in the lowest layer possible, which shrinks
the path that the additional, useless padding data has to travel.
For example, when using 4k-sector drives that lie about their sector
size, using 512b read requests instead of 4k means that there will
be less data traveling down the ATA/SCSI interface, even though the
drive actually reads 4k from the platter.
The only exception is raidz, because raidz needs to read the whole
allocated block for parity.
This patch removes alignment enforcement for read requests, except on
raidz. Note that we also remove an assertion that checks that we're
aligning a top-level vdev I/O, because that's not the case anymore for
repair writes that results from failed reads.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1022
There are currently three vmem_size() consumers all of which are
part of the ARC implemention. However, since the expected behavior
of the Linux and Solaris virtual memory subsystems are so different
the behavior in each of these instances needs to be reevaluated.
* arc_evict_needed() - This is actually dead code. Arena support
was never added to the SPL and zio_arena is always NULL. This
support isn't needed so we simply remove this dead code.
* arc_memory_throttle() - On Solaris where virtual memory constitutes
almost all of the address space we can reasonably expect there to be
a fairly large amount free. However, on Linux by default we only
have about 100MB total and that's heavily used by the ARC. So the
expectation on Linux is that this will usually be a small value.
Therefore we remove the vmem_size() check for i386 systems because
the expectation is that it will be less than the zfs_write_limit_max.
* arc_init() - Here vmem_size() is used to initially size the ARC.
Since the ARC is currently backed by the virtual address space it
makes sense to use this as a limit on the ARC for 32-bit systems.
This code can be removed when the ARC is backed by the page cache.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#831
Allow the zfs_txg_timeout variable to be dynamically tuned at run
time. By pulling it down out of the variable declaration it will
be evaluted each time through the loop.
The zfs_txg_timeout variable is now declared extern in a the common
sys/txg.h header rather than locally in dsl_scan.c. This prevents
potential type mismatches if the global variable needs to be used
elsewhere.
Move the module_param() code in to the same source file where
zfs_txg_timeout is declared. This is the most logical location.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Commit c409e4647f introduced a
number of module parameters. This required several types to be
changed to accomidate the required module parameters Linux macros.
Unfortunately, arc.c contained its own extern definition of the
zfs_write_limit_max variable and its type was not updated to be
consistent with its dsl_pool.c counterpart. If the variable had
been properly marked extern in a common header, then gcc would
have generated a warning and this would not have slipped through.
The result of this was that the ARC unconditionally expected
zfs_write_limit_max to be 64-bit. Unfortunately, the largest size
integer module parameter that Linux supports is unsigned long, which
varies in size depending on the host system's native word size. The
effect was that on 32-bit systems, ARC incorrectly performed 64-bit
operations on a 32-bit value by reading the neighboring 32 bits as
the upper 32 bits of the 64-bit value.
We correct that by changing the extern declaration to use the unsigned
long type and move these extern definitions in to the common arc.h
header. This should make ARC correctly treat zfs_write_limit_max as a
32-bit value on 32-bit systems.
Reported-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#749
zfs_immediate_write_sz variable is a tunable, but lacks proper
module_param() instrumentation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1032
Term 'transaction group' is commonly abbreviated as txg in ZFS sources.
There are some places (Linux specific MODULE_PARAM_DESC() macros)
where it is incorrectly spelled as 'tgx'.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1030
It doesn't make sense for a zvol to use the default system I/O
scheduler because it is a virtual device. Therefore, we change
the default scheduler to 'noop' for zvols provided that the
elevator_change() function is available. This interface has
been available since Linux 2.6.36 and appears in the RHEL 6.x
kernels.
We deliberately do not implement the method for older kernels
because it was racy and could result in system crashes. It's
better to simply manually tune the scheduler for these kernels.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1017
Currently, when processing DISCARD requests, zvol_discard() calls
dmu_free_long_range() with the precise offset and size of the request.
Unfortunately, this is not optimal for requests that are not aligned to
the zvol block boundaries. Indeed, in the case of an unaligned range,
dnode_free_range() will zero out the unaligned parts. Not only is this
useless since we are not freeing any space by doing so, it is also slow
because it translates to a read-modify-write operation.
This patch fixes the issue by rounding up the discard start offset to
the next volume block boundary, and rounding down the discard end
offset to the previous volume block boundary.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1010
This warning indicates the incorrect use of KM_SLEEP in a call
path which must use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid deadlocking in direct
reclaim. See commit b8d06fc for additional details.
SPL: Fixing allocation for task txg_sync (6093) which
used GFP flags 0x297bda7c with PF_NOFS set
Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#1002
illumos/illumos-gate@2e2c135528
Illumos changeset: 13780:6da32a929222
3100 zvol rename fails with EBUSY when dirty
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam H. Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
Ported-by: Etienne Dechamps <etienne.dechamps@ovh.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#995
As of Linux 2.6.36 an elevator_change() interface was added.
This commit updates vdev_elevator_switch() to use this interface
when available, otherwise it falls back to the usermodehelper
method.
Original-patch-by: foobarz <sysop@xeon.(none)>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#906
In order to implement synchronous NFS metadata semantics ZFS
needs to provide the .commit_metadata hook. All it takes there
is to make sure changes are committed to ZIL. Fortunately
zfs_fsync() does just that, so simply calling it from
zpl_commit_metadata() does the trick.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#969
Previously we returned ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) which the rest of the kernel
doesn't expect and as such we can oops.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#949Closes#931Closes#789Closes#743Closes#730
This warning indicates the incorrect use of KM_SLEEP in a call
path which must use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid deadlocking in direct
reclaim. See commit b8d06fca08
for additional details.
SPL: Fixing allocation for task txg_sync (6093) which
used GFP flags 0x297bda7c with PF_NOFS set
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #973
This warning indicates the incorrect use of KM_SLEEP in a call
path which must use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid deadlocking in direct
reclaim. See commit b8d06fca08
for additional details.
SPL: Fixing allocation for task txg_sync (6093) which
used GFP flags 0x297bda7c with PF_NOFS set
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #917
When zfs_replay_write() replays TX_WRITE records from ZIL
it calls zpl_write_common() to perform the actual write.
zpl_write_common() returns the number of bytes written
(similar to write() system call) or an (negative) error.
However, the code expects the positive return value to be
a residual counter. Thus when zpl_write_common() successfully
completes it is mistakenly considered to be a partial write and
the error code delivered further. At this point the ZIL processing
is aborted with famous "ZFS replay transaction error 5" error
message given to the message buffer.
The fix is to compare the zpl_write_commmon() return value with
the buffer size and flag error only when they disagree.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko@mountall.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#933
Commit 2b2861362f accidentally
introduced this issue by only conditionally registering the
commit callback in the async case.
The error handing code for the dmu_tx_assign() failure case
relied on there always being a registered commit callback to
clear the PG_writeback bit. Since that is no longer strictly
true for the synchronous case we must explicitly invoke the
callback.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#961
When replaying an unlink/remove operation via zfs_rmdir() the object
being removed will be instantiated by a call to zfs_dirent_lock().
This means that there is a single reference protecting the object.
Right before the call to zfs_inode_update() this reference is dropped
which may cause the object to be destroyed. This will result in a
NULL dereference as shown by the stack trace is issue #782.
This likely isn't an issue during normal operation because there is
always an additional reference held on the object by the VFS.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#782
The 'zfs destroy' changes in 330d06f disrupted how zvol devices
get removed on ZoL. However, it basically boils down to the
fact that we are no longer reliably calling zvol_remove_minor()
via zfs_ioc_destroy_snaps().
Therefore we add the missing call and handle things similarly
to the existing zfs_unmount_snap() case. Ideally we would check
if this is of type DMU_OST_ZFS or DMU_OST_ZVOL and just do the
right thing as in zfs_ioc_destroy(). However, it looks like
it would be fairly expensive to get the type, and it's harmless
to simply attempt the umount and minor removal.
This is also an issue in the latest FreeBSD and Illumos code.
It was being tracked under the following issue, and we may want
to refresh our code when they settle on what they want to do
about it upstream.
https://www.illumos.org/issues/3170
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #903
Use ZFS dataset fsid guid as a unique file system id, similar to what is
done on Illumos/OpenSolaris.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko@mountall.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#888
Buffers for the ARC are normally backed by the SPL virtual slab.
However, if memory is low, AND no slab objects are available,
AND a new slab cannot be quickly constructed a new emergency
object will be directly allocated.
These objects can be as large as order 5 on a system with 4k
pages. And because they are allocated with KM_PUSHPAGE, to
avoid a potential deadlock, they are not allowed to initiate I/O
to satisfy the allocation. This can result in the occasional
allocation failure.
However, since these allocations are allowed to block and
perform operations such as memory compaction they will eventually
succeed. Since this is not unexpected (just unlikely) behavior
this patch disables the warning for the allocation failure.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #465
This warning indicates the incorrect use of KM_SLEEP in a call
path which must use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid deadlocking in direct
reclaim. See commit b8d06fca08
for additional details.
SPL: Fixing allocation for task txg_sync (6093) which
used GFP flags 0x297bda7c with PF_NOFS set
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #917
This warning indicates the incorrect use of KM_SLEEP in a call
path which must use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid deadlocking in direct
reclaim. See commit b8d06fca08
for additional details.
SPL: Fixing allocation for task txg_sync (6093) which
used GFP flags 0x297bda7c with PF_NOFS set
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #917
This warning indicates the incorrect use of KM_SLEEP in a call
path which must use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid deadlocking in direct
reclaim. See commit b8d06fca08
for additional details.
SPL: Fixing allocation for task txg_sync (6093) which
used GFP flags 0x297bda7c with PF_NOFS set
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #917
This warning indicates the incorrect use of KM_SLEEP in a call
path which must use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid deadlocking in direct
reclaim. See commit b8d06fca08
for additional details.
SPL: Fixing allocation for task txg_sync (6093) which
used GFP flags 0x297bda7c with PF_NOFS set
Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #917
This warning indicates the incorrect use of KM_SLEEP in a call
path which must use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid deadlocking in direct
reclaim. See commit b8d06fca08
for additional details.
SPL: Fixing allocation for task txg_sync (6093) which
used GFP flags 0x297bda7c with PF_NOFS set
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #917
When writing via ->writepage() the writeback bit was always cleared
as part of the txg commit callback. However, when the I/O is also
being written synchronsously to the zil we can immediately clear this
bit. There is no need to wait for the subsequent TXG sync since the
data is already safe on stable storage.
This has been observed to reduce the msync(2) delay from up to 5
seconds down 10s of miliseconds. One workload which is expected
to benefit from this are the intermittent samba hands described
in issue #700.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#700Closes#907
Differences between how paging is done on Solaris and Linux can cause
deadlocks if KM_SLEEP is used in any the following contexts.
* The txg_sync thread
* The zvol write/discard threads
* The zpl_putpage() VFS callback
This is because KM_SLEEP will allow for direct reclaim which may result
in the VM calling back in to the filesystem or block layer to write out
pages. If a lock is held over this operation the potential exists to
deadlock the system. To ensure forward progress all memory allocations
in these contexts must us KM_PUSHPAGE which disables performing any I/O
to accomplish the memory allocation.
Previously, this behavior was acheived by setting PF_MEMALLOC on the
thread. However, that resulted in unexpected side effects such as the
exhaustion of pages in ZONE_DMA. This approach touchs more of the zfs
code, but it is more consistent with the right way to handle these cases
under Linux.
This is patch lays the ground work for being able to safely revert the
following commits which used PF_MEMALLOC:
21ade34 Disable direct reclaim for z_wr_* threads
cfc9a5c Fix zpl_writepage() deadlock
eec8164 Fix ASSERTION(!dsl_pool_sync_context(tx->tx_pool))
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #726
These allocations in mzap_update() used to be kmem_alloc() but
were changed to vmem_alloc() due to the size of the allocation.
However, since it turns out this function may be called in the
context of the txg_sync thread they must be changed back to use
a kmem_alloc() to ensure the KM_PUSHPAGE flag is honored.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The txg_sync(), zfs_putpage(), zvol_write(), and zvol_discard()
call paths must only use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid potential deadlocks
during direct reclaim.
This patch annotates these call paths so any accidental use of
KM_SLEEP will be quickly detected. In the interest of stability
if debugging is disabled the offending allocation will have its
GFP flags automatically corrected. When debugging is enabled
any misuse will be treated as a fatal error.
This patch is entirely for debugging. We should be careful to
NOT become dependant on it fixing up the incorrect allocations.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The vdev queue layer may require a small number of buffers
when attempting to create aggregate I/O requests. Rather than
attempting to allocate them from the global zio buffers, which
is slow under memory pressure, it makes sense to pre-allocate
them because...
1) These buffers are short lived. They are only required for
the life of a single I/O at which point they can be used by
the next I/O.
2) The maximum number of concurrent buffers needed by a vdev is
small. It's roughly limited by the zfs_vdev_max_pending tunable
which defaults to 10.
By keeping a small list of these buffer per-vdev we can ensure
one is always available when we need it. This significantly
reduces contention on the vq->vq_lock, because we no longer
need to perform a slow allocation under this lock. This is
particularly important when memory is already low on the system.
It would probably be wise to extend the use of these buffers beyond
aggregate I/O and in to the raidz implementation. The inability
to quickly allocate buffer for the parity stripes could result in
similiar problems.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>