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Brian Behlendorf 6442f3cfe3 Retire zio_bulk_flags
Long ago the zio_bulk_flags module parameter was introduced to
facilitate debugging and profiling the zio_buf_caches.  Today
this code works well and there's no compelling reason to keep
this functionality.  In fact it's preferable to revert this so
the code is more consistent with other ZFS implementations.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Issue #3063
2015-02-10 16:08:49 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 3018bffa9b Refine slab cache sizing
This change is designed to improve the memory utilization of
slabs by more carefully setting their size.  The way the code
currently works is problematic for slabs which contain large
objects (>1MB).  This is due to slabs being unconditionally
rounded up to a power of two which may result in unused space
at the end of the slab.

The reason the existing code rounds up every slab is because it
assumes it will backed by the buddy allocator.  Since the buddy
allocator can only performs power of two allocations this is
desirable because it avoids wasting any space.  However, this
logic breaks down if slab is backed by vmalloc() which operates
at a page level granularity.  In this case, the optimal thing to
do is calculate the minimum required slab size given certain
constraints (object size, alignment, objects/slab, etc).

Therefore, this patch reworks the spl_slab_size() function so
that it sizes KMC_KMEM slabs differently than KMC_VMEM slabs.
KMC_KMEM slabs are rounded up to the nearest power of two, and
KMC_VMEM slabs are allowed to be the minimum required size.

This change also reduces the default number of objects per slab.
This reduces how much memory a single cache object can pin, which
can result in significant memory saving for highly fragmented
caches.  But depending on the workload it may result in slabs
being allocated and freed more frequently.  In practice, this
has been shown to be a better default for most workloads.

Also the maximum slab size has been reduced to 4MB on 32-bit
systems.  Due to the limited virtual address space it's critical
the we be as frugal as possible.  A limit of 4M still lets us
reasonably comfortably allocate a limited number of 1MB objects.

Finally, the kmem:slab_small and kmem:slab_large SPLAT tests
were extended to provide better test coverage of various object
sizes and alignments.  Caches are created with random parameters
and their basic functionality is verified by allocating several
slabs worth of objects.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf b1c3ae48a7 Update spl-module-parameters(5) man page
The spl-module-parameters(5) was not kept up to date.  Refresh
the man page so that it lists all the possible module options,
describes what the do, and justify why the default values are
set they way the are.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 1a20496834 Make slab reclaim more aggressive
Many people have noticed that the kmem cache implementation is slow
to release its memory.  This patch makes the reclaim behavior more
aggressive by immediately freeing a slab once it is empty.  Unused
objects which are cached in the magazines will still prevent a slab
from being freed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf c3eabc75b1 Refactor generic memory allocation interfaces
This patch achieves the following goals:

1. It replaces the preprocessor kmem flag to gfp flag mapping with
   proper translation logic. This eliminates the potential for
   surprises that were previously possible where kmem flags were
   mapped to gfp flags.

2. It maps vmem_alloc() allocations to kmem_alloc() for allocations
   sized less than or equal to the newly-added spl_kmem_alloc_max
   parameter.  This ensures that small allocations will not contend
   on a single global lock, large allocations can still be handled,
   and potentially limited virtual address space will not be squandered.
   This behavior is entirely different than under Illumos due to
   different memory management strategies employed by the respective
   kernels.  However, this functionally provides the semantics required.

3. The --disable-debug-kmem, --enable-debug-kmem (default), and
   --enable-debug-kmem-tracking allocators have been unified in to
   a single spl_kmem_alloc_impl() allocation function.  This was
   done to simplify the code and make it more maintainable.

4. Improve portability by exposing an implementation of the memory
   allocations functions that can be safely used in the same way
   they are used on Illumos.   Specifically, callers may safely
   use KM_SLEEP in contexts which perform filesystem IO.  This
   allows us to eliminate an entire class of Linux specific changes
   which were previously required to avoid deadlocking the system.

This change will be largely transparent to existing callers but there
are a few caveats:

1. Because the headers were refactored and extraneous includes removed
   callers may find they need to explicitly add additional #includes.
   In particular, kmem_cache.h must now be explicitly includes to
   access the SPL's kmem cache implementation.  This behavior is
   different from Illumos but it was done to avoid always masking
   the Linux slab functions when kmem.h is included.

2. Callers, like Lustre, which made assumptions about the definitions
   of KM_SLEEP, KM_NOSLEEP, and KM_PUSHPAGE will need to be updated.
   Other callers such as ZFS which did not will not require changes.

3. KM_PUSHPAGE is no longer overloaded to imply GFP_NOIO.  It retains
   its original meaning of allowing allocations to access reserved
   memory.  KM_PUSHPAGE callers can be converted back to KM_SLEEP.

4. The KM_NODEBUG flags has been retired and the default warning
   threshold increased to 32k.

5. The kmem_virt() functions has been removed.  For callers which
   need to distinguish between a physical and virtual address use
   is_vmalloc_addr().

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Ned Bass 33b6dbbc51 Document zfs_flags module parameter
Add a table describing the debugging flags that can be set in the zfs_flags
module parameter.  Also change the module_param type to 'uint' so users aren't
shown a negative value. The updated man page text is reproduced below for
convenience.

zfs_flags (int)
            Set  additional debugging flags. The following flags may be
            bitwise-or'd together.

            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            |Value   Symbolic Name                                  |
            |        Description                                    |
            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            |    1   ZFS_DEBUG_DPRINTF                              |
            |        Enable dprintf entries in the debug log.       |
            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            |    2   ZFS_DEBUG_DBUF_VERIFY *                        |
            |        Enable extra dbuf verifications.               |
            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            |    4   ZFS_DEBUG_DNODE_VERIFY *                       |
            |        Enable extra dnode verifications.              |
            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            |    8   ZFS_DEBUG_SNAPNAMES                            |
            |        Enable snapshot name verification.             |
            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            |   16   ZFS_DEBUG_MODIFY                               |
            |        Check for illegally modified ARC buffers.      |
            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            |   32   ZFS_DEBUG_SPA                                  |
            |        Enable spa_dbgmsg entries in the debug log.    |
            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            |   64   ZFS_DEBUG_ZIO_FREE                             |
            |        Enable verification of block frees.            |
            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            |  128   ZFS_DEBUG_HISTOGRAM_VERIFY                     |
            |        Enable extra spacemap histogram verifications. |
            +-------------------------------------------------------+
            * Requires debug build.

            Default value: 0.

Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2988
2015-01-07 15:50:49 -08:00
Daniil Lunev 62bdd5eb7a Illumos 4924 - LZ4 Compression for metadata
Reviewed by Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml@gmail.com>
Approved by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>

References:
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/b8289d2
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3756

Porting notes:

The static function zfs_prop_activate_feature() was removed because
this change removes the only caller.  The function was not removed
from Illumos but instead left as dead code.  However, to keep gcc
happy it was removed from Linux and may be easily restored if needed.

Ported by: DHE <git@dehacked.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1540
2014-10-20 16:17:49 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf a80d69caf0 Remove adaptive mutex implementation
Since the Linux 2.6.29 kernel all mutexes have been adaptive mutexs.
There is no longer any point in keeping this code so it is being
removed to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2014-10-17 15:07:28 -07:00
Max Grossman 36283ca233 Illumos 5138 - add tunable for maximum number of blocks freed in one txg
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <adam.leventhal@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Mattew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Reviewed by: Richard Elling <richard.elling@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/5138
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/af3465d

Porting notes:

Because support for exposing a uint64_t parameter wasn't added
until v3.17-rc1 the zfs_free_max_blocks variable has been declared
as a unsigned long.  This is already far larger than required and
it allows us to avoid additional autoconf compatibility code.

The default value has been set to 100,000 on Linux instead of
ULONG_MAX which is used on Illumos.  This was done to limit the
number of outstanding IOs in the system when snapshots are destroyed.
This helps ensure individual TXG sync times are kept reasonable and
memory isn't wasted managing a huge backlog of outstanding IOs.

Ported by: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2675
Closes #2581
2014-09-23 14:26:34 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens b8bcca18f7 Illumos 5161 - add tunable for number of metaslabs per vdev
5161 add tunable for number of metaslabs per vdev
Reviewed by: Alex Reece <alex.reece@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Paul Dagnelie <paul.dagnelie@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Elling <richard.elling@gmail.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/5161
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/bf3e216

Ported by: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2698
2014-09-23 10:00:02 -07:00
Alexey Smirnoff 0dfc732416 Change the default 'zfs_dedup_prefetch' value to '0'
This gives a huge performance improvement in operations with deduped
datasets especially when the bottleneck is the amount of ram
available for zfs.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2639
2014-09-04 09:50:45 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens dea377c0d9 Illumos 4970-4974 - extreme rewind enhancements
4970 need controls on i/o issued by zpool import -XF
4971 zpool import -T should accept hex values
4972 zpool import -T implies extreme rewind, and thus a scrub
4973 spa_load_retry retries the same txg
4974 spa_load_verify() reads all data twice
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4970
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4971
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4972
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4973
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4974
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/e42d205

Notes:
    This set of patches adds a set of tunable parameters for the
    "extreme rewind" mode of pool import which allows control over
    the traversal performed during such an import.

Ported by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2598
2014-08-26 16:29:57 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens 49ddb31506 Illumos 5034 - ARC's buf_hash_table is too small
5034 ARC's buf_hash_table is too small

Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Elling <richard.elling@gmail.com>
Approved by: Gordon Ross <gwr@nexenta.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/5034
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/63e911b

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2615
2014-08-26 16:14:49 -07:00
George Wilson f3a7f6610f Illumos 4976-4984 - metaslab improvements
4976 zfs should only avoid writing to a failing non-redundant top-level vdev
4978 ztest fails in get_metaslab_refcount()
4979 extend free space histogram to device and pool
4980 metaslabs should have a fragmentation metric
4981 remove fragmented ops vector from block allocator
4982 space_map object should proactively upgrade when feature is enabled
4983 need to collect metaslab information via mdb
4984 device selection should use fragmentation metric
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <adam.leventhal@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4976
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4978
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4979
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4980
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4981
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4982
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4983
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4984
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/2e4c998

Notes:
    The "zdb -M" option has been re-tasked to display the new metaslab
    fragmentation metric and the new "zdb -I" option is used to control
    the maximum number of in-flight I/Os.

    The new fragmentation metric is derived from the space map histogram
    which has been rolled up to the vdev and pool level and is presented
    to the user via "zpool list".

    Add a number of module parameters related to the new metaslab weighting
    logic.

Ported by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2595
2014-08-18 08:40:49 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens fbeddd60b7 Illumos 4390 - I/O errors can corrupt space map when deleting fs/vol
4390 i/o errors when deleting filesystem/zvol can lead to space map corruption
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Reviewed by: Saso Kiselkov <saso.kiselkov@nexenta.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4390
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/7fd05ac

Porting notes:

Previous stack-reduction efforts in traverse_visitb() caused a fair
number of un-mergable pieces of code.  This patch should reduce its
stack footprint a bit more.

The new local bptree_entry_phys_t in bptree_add() is dynamically-allocated
using kmem_zalloc() for the purpose of stack reduction.

The new global zfs_free_leak_on_eio has been defined as an integer
rather than a boolean_t as was the case with the related zfs_recover
global.  Also, zfs_free_leak_on_eio's definition has been inserted into
zfs_debug.c for consistency with the existing definition of zfs_recover.
Illumos placed it in spa_misc.c.

Ported by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2545
2014-08-04 11:50:52 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens 9b67f60560 Illumos 4757, 4913
4757 ZFS embedded-data block pointers ("zero block compression")
4913 zfs release should not be subject to space checks

Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Max Grossman <max.grossman@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4757
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4913
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/5d7b4d4

Porting notes:

For compatibility with the fastpath code the zio_done() function
needed to be updated.  Because embedded-data block pointers do
not require DVAs to be allocated the associated vdevs will not
be marked and therefore should not be unmarked.

Ported by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2544
2014-08-01 14:28:05 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens da536844d5 Illumos 4368, 4369.
4369 implement zfs bookmarks
4368 zfs send filesystems from readonly pools
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4369
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4368
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/78f1710

Ported by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2530
2014-07-29 10:55:29 -07:00
Max Grossman b0bc7a84d9 Illumos 4370, 4371
4370 avoid transmitting holes during zfs send
4371 DMU code clean up

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: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>a

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4370
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4371
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/43466aa

Ported by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2529
2014-07-28 14:29:58 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens fa86b5dbb6 Illumos 4171, 4172
4171 clean up spa_feature_*() interfaces
4172 implement extensible_dataset feature for use by other zpool features

Reviewed by: Max Grossman <max.grossman@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Jerry Jelinek <jerry.jelinek@joyent.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>a

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4171
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4172
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/2acef22

Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2528
2014-07-25 16:40:07 -07:00
Turbo Fredriksson a60e668bd2 Initial attempt to document events and payloads.
In no way complete - most have been trial and error and some
deducing what they could mean. It needs more information from
someone that knows the code better. But this is a start and
it lays the basic structure for adding this additional detail.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2357
2014-07-25 11:58:36 -07:00
George Wilson 93cf20764a Illumos #4101, #4102, #4103, #4105, #4106
4101 metaslab_debug should allow for fine-grained control
4102 space_maps should store more information about themselves
4103 space map object blocksize should be increased
4105 removing a mirrored log device results in a leaked object
4106 asynchronously load metaslab
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Sebastien Roy <seb@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

Prior to this patch, space_maps were preferred solely based on the
amount of free space left in each. Unfortunately, this heuristic didn't
contain any information about the make-up of that free space, which
meant we could keep preferring and loading a highly fragmented space map
that wouldn't actually have enough contiguous space to satisfy the
allocation; then unloading that space_map and repeating the process.

This change modifies the space_map's to store additional information
about the contiguous space in the space_map, so that we can use this
information to make a better decision about which space_map to load.
This requires reallocating all space_map objects to increase their
bonus buffer size sizes enough to fit the new metadata.

The above feature can be enabled via a new feature flag introduced by
this change: com.delphix:spacemap_histogram

In addition to the above, this patch allows the space_map block size to
be increase. Currently the block size is set to be 4K in size, which has
certain implications including the following:

    * 4K sector devices will not see any compression benefit
    * large space_maps require more metadata on-disk
    * large space_maps require more time to load (typically random reads)

Now the space_map block size can adjust as needed up to the maximum size
set via the space_map_max_blksz variable.

A bug was fixed which resulted in potentially leaking an object when
removing a mirrored log device. The previous logic for vdev_remove() did
not deal with removing top-level vdevs that are interior vdevs (i.e.
mirror) correctly. The problem would occur when removing a mirrored log
device, and result in the DTL space map object being leaked; because
top-level vdevs don't have DTL space map objects associated with them.

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4101
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4102
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4103
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4105
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4106
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/0713e23

Porting notes:

A handful of kmem_alloc() calls were converted to kmem_zalloc(). Also,
the KM_PUSHPAGE and TQ_PUSHPAGE flags were used as necessary.

Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2488
2014-07-22 09:39:16 -07:00
Tim Chase f4a4046bd6 Convert zfs_mg_noalloc_threshold to a module parameter and document
The parameter was added as illumos issue 4081 which was committed to
zfsonlinux in ac72fac3ea.  This patch
documents the parameter and allows for it to be set as a module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2483
2014-07-16 16:49:25 -07:00
Tim Chase 27b293be8a Expand the description of scan-related and other parameters.
Document that the scan-related parameters are, in fact, applicable only
to scrub and/or resilver operations as appropriate.

Expand a few of the prefetch-related descriptions.

Add clarification to other module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2361
2014-06-06 13:04:43 -07:00
George Wilson aa7d06a98a Illumos #4101 finer-grained control of metaslab_debug
Today the metaslab_debug logic performs two tasks:

- load all metaslabs on import/open
- don't unload metaslabs at the end of spa_sync

This change provides knobs for each of these independently.

References:
  https://illumos.org/issues/4101
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/0713e23

Notes:

1) This is a small piece of the metaslab improvement patch from
Illumos. It was worth bringing over before the rest, since it's
low risk and it can be useful on fragmented pools (e.g. Lustre
MDTs). metaslab_debug_unload would give the performance benefit
of the old metaslab_debug option without causing unwanted delay
during pool import.

Ported-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2227
2014-05-06 09:46:04 -07:00
Andrey Vesnovaty 703371d8c7 Evenly distribute the taskq threads across available CPUs
The problem is described in commit aeeb4e0c0a.
However, instead of disabling the binding to CPU altogether we just keep the
last CPU index across calls to taskq_create() and thus achieve even
distribution of the taskq threads across all available CPUs.

The implementation based on assumption that task queues initialization
performed in serial manner.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vesnovaty <andrey.vesnovaty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vesnovaty <andreyv@infinidat.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #336
2014-04-25 15:29:18 -07:00
Prakash Surya 624227854e Disable arc_p adapt dampener by default
It's unclear why adjustments to arc_p need to be dampened as they are in
arc_adjust. With that said, it's removal significantly improves the arc's
ability to "warm up" to a given workload. Thus, I'm disabling by default
until its usefulness is better understood.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #2110
2014-02-21 16:10:49 -08:00
Prakash Surya f521ce1b9c Allow "arc_p" to drop to zero or grow to "arc_c"
Setting a limit on the minimum value of "arc_p" has been shown to have
detrimental effects on the arc hit rate for certain "metadata" intensive
workloads. Specifically, this has been exhibited with a workload that
constantly dirties new "metadata" but also frequently touches a "small"
amount of mfu data (e.g. mkdir's).

What is seen is that the new anon data throttles the mfu list to a
negligible size (because arc_p > anon + mru in arc_get_data_buf), even
though the mfu ghost list receives a constant stream of hits. To remedy
this, arc_p is now allowed to drop to zero if the algorithm deems it
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #2110
2014-02-21 16:10:27 -08:00
Prakash Surya 89c8cac493 Disable aggressive arc_p growth by default
For specific workloads consisting mainly of mfu data and new anon data
buffers, the aggressive growth of arc_p found in the arc_get_data_buf()
function can have detrimental effects on the mfu list size and ghost
list hit rate.

Running a workload consisting of two processes:

    * Process 1 is creating many small files
    * Process 2 is tar'ing a directory consisting of many small files

I've seen arc_p and the mru grow to their maximum size, while the mru
ghost list receives 100K times fewer hits than the mfu ghost list.

Ideally, as the mfu ghost list receives hits, arc_p should be driven
down and the size of the mfu should increase. Given the specific
workload I was testing with, the mfu list size should grow to a point
where almost no mfu ghost list hits would occur. Unfortunately, this
does not happen because the newly dirtied anon buffers constancy drive
arc_p to its maximum value and keep it there (effectively prioritizing
the mru list and starving the mfu list down to a negligible size).

The logic to increment arc_p from within the arc_get_data_buf() function
was introduced many years ago in this upstream commit:

    commit 641fbdae3a027d12b3c3dcd18927ccafae6d58bc
    Author: maybee <none@none>
    Date:   Wed Dec 20 15:46:12 2006 -0800

        6505658 target MRU size (arc.p) needs to be adjusted more aggressively

and since I don't fully understand the motivation for the change, I am
reluctant to completely remove it.

As a way to test out how it's removal might affect performance, I've
disabled that code by default, but left it tunable via a module option.
Thus, if its removal is found to be grossly detrimental for certain
workloads, it can be re-enabled on the fly, without a code change.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #2110
2014-02-21 14:53:28 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 4c995417bc Remove incorrect use of EXTRA_DIST for man pages
Setting the 'dist_' prefix is the correct way to instruct Automake
to include these files in the distribution.  The EXTRA_DIST variable
is reserved for files which are not covered by the automatic rules.

  http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Basics

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2014-01-17 11:54:22 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 3566d5c7c3 Remove incorrect use of EXTRA_DIST for man pages
Setting the 'dist_' prefix is the correct way to instruct Automake
to include these files in the distribution.  The EXTRA_DIST variable
is reserved for files which are not covered by the automatic rules.

  http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Basics

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2014-01-17 11:50:08 -08:00
Ned Bass 09d0b30fd1 vdev_id: support per-channel slot mappings
The vdev_id udev helper currently applies slot renumbering rules to
every channel (JBOD) in the system.  This is too inflexible for systems
with non-homogeneous storage topologies.  The "slot" keyword now takes
an optional third parameter which names a channel to which the mapping
will apply.  If the third parameter is omitted then the rule applies to
all channels.  The first-specified rule that can match a slot takes
precedence.  Therefore a channel-specific rule for a given slot should
generally appear before a generic rule for the same slot number.  In
this way a custom slot mapping can be applied to a particular channel
and a default mapping applied to the rest.

Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2056
2014-01-17 11:17:54 -08:00
Turbo Fredriksson fd8febbd1e Add zfs_send_corrupt_data module option
Tuning setting to ignore read/checksum errors when sending data.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1982
Issue #1897
2013-12-18 16:46:35 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens e8b96c6007 Illumos #4045 write throttle & i/o scheduler performance work
4045 zfs write throttle & i/o scheduler performance work

1. The ZFS i/o scheduler (vdev_queue.c) now divides i/os into 5 classes: sync
read, sync write, async read, async write, and scrub/resilver.  The scheduler
issues a number of concurrent i/os from each class to the device.  Once a class
has been selected, an i/o is selected from this class using either an elevator
algorithem (async, scrub classes) or FIFO (sync classes).  The number of
concurrent async write i/os is tuned dynamically based on i/o load, to achieve
good sync i/o latency when there is not a high load of writes, and good write
throughput when there is.  See the block comment in vdev_queue.c (reproduced
below) for more details.

2. The write throttle (dsl_pool_tempreserve_space() and
txg_constrain_throughput()) is rewritten to produce much more consistent delays
when under constant load.  The new write throttle is based on the amount of
dirty data, rather than guesses about future performance of the system.  When
there is a lot of dirty data, each transaction (e.g. write() syscall) will be
delayed by the same small amount.  This eliminates the "brick wall of wait"
that the old write throttle could hit, causing all transactions to wait several
seconds until the next txg opens.  One of the keys to the new write throttle is
decrementing the amount of dirty data as i/o completes, rather than at the end
of spa_sync().  Note that the write throttle is only applied once the i/o
scheduler is issuing the maximum number of outstanding async writes.  See the
block comments in dsl_pool.c and above dmu_tx_delay() (reproduced below) for
more details.

This diff has several other effects, including:

 * the commonly-tuned global variable zfs_vdev_max_pending has been removed;
use per-class zfs_vdev_*_max_active values or zfs_vdev_max_active instead.

 * the size of each txg (meaning the amount of dirty data written, and thus the
time it takes to write out) is now controlled differently.  There is no longer
an explicit time goal; the primary determinant is amount of dirty data.
Systems that are under light or medium load will now often see that a txg is
always syncing, but the impact to performance (e.g. read latency) is minimal.
Tune zfs_dirty_data_max and zfs_dirty_data_sync to control this.

 * zio_taskq_batch_pct = 75 -- Only use 75% of all CPUs for compression,
checksum, etc.  This improves latency by not allowing these CPU-intensive tasks
to consume all CPU (on machines with at least 4 CPU's; the percentage is
rounded up).

--matt

APPENDIX: problems with the current i/o scheduler

The current ZFS i/o scheduler (vdev_queue.c) is deadline based.  The problem
with this is that if there are always i/os pending, then certain classes of
i/os can see very long delays.

For example, if there are always synchronous reads outstanding, then no async
writes will be serviced until they become "past due".  One symptom of this
situation is that each pass of the txg sync takes at least several seconds
(typically 3 seconds).

If many i/os become "past due" (their deadline is in the past), then we must
service all of these overdue i/os before any new i/os.  This happens when we
enqueue a batch of async writes for the txg sync, with deadlines 2.5 seconds in
the future.  If we can't complete all the i/os in 2.5 seconds (e.g. because
there were always reads pending), then these i/os will become past due.  Now we
must service all the "async" writes (which could be hundreds of megabytes)
before we service any reads, introducing considerable latency to synchronous
i/os (reads or ZIL writes).

Notes on porting to ZFS on Linux:

- zio_t gained new members io_physdone and io_phys_children.  Because
  object caches in the Linux port call the constructor only once at
  allocation time, objects may contain residual data when retrieved
  from the cache. Therefore zio_create() was updated to zero out the two
  new fields.

- vdev_mirror_pending() relied on the depth of the per-vdev pending queue
  (vq->vq_pending_tree) to select the least-busy leaf vdev to read from.
  This tree has been replaced by vq->vq_active_tree which is now used
  for the same purpose.

- vdev_queue_init() used the value of zfs_vdev_max_pending to determine
  the number of vdev I/O buffers to pre-allocate.  That global no longer
  exists, so we instead use the sum of the *_max_active values for each of
  the five I/O classes described above.

- The Illumos implementation of dmu_tx_delay() delays a transaction by
  sleeping in condition variable embedded in the thread
  (curthread->t_delay_cv).  We do not have an equivalent CV to use in
  Linux, so this change replaced the delay logic with a wrapper called
  zfs_sleep_until(). This wrapper could be adopted upstream and in other
  downstream ports to abstract away operating system-specific delay logic.

- These tunables are added as module parameters, and descriptions added
  to the zfs-module-parameters.5 man page.

  spa_asize_inflation
  zfs_deadman_synctime_ms
  zfs_vdev_max_active
  zfs_vdev_async_write_active_min_dirty_percent
  zfs_vdev_async_write_active_max_dirty_percent
  zfs_vdev_async_read_max_active
  zfs_vdev_async_read_min_active
  zfs_vdev_async_write_max_active
  zfs_vdev_async_write_min_active
  zfs_vdev_scrub_max_active
  zfs_vdev_scrub_min_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_read_max_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_read_min_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_write_max_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_write_min_active
  zfs_dirty_data_max_percent
  zfs_delay_min_dirty_percent
  zfs_dirty_data_max_max_percent
  zfs_dirty_data_max
  zfs_dirty_data_max_max
  zfs_dirty_data_sync
  zfs_delay_scale

  The latter four have type unsigned long, whereas they are uint64_t in
  Illumos.  This accommodates Linux's module_param() supported types, but
  means they may overflow on 32-bit architectures.

  The values zfs_dirty_data_max and zfs_dirty_data_max_max are the most
  likely to overflow on 32-bit systems, since they express physical RAM
  sizes in bytes.  In fact, Illumos initializes zfs_dirty_data_max_max to
  2^32 which does overflow. To resolve that, this port instead initializes
  it in arc_init() to 25% of physical RAM, and adds the tunable
  zfs_dirty_data_max_max_percent to override that percentage.  While this
  solution doesn't completely avoid the overflow issue, it should be a
  reasonable default for most systems, and the minority of affected
  systems can work around the issue by overriding the defaults.

- Fixed reversed logic in comment above zfs_delay_scale declaration.

- Clarified comments in vdev_queue.c regarding when per-queue minimums take
  effect.

- Replaced dmu_tx_write_limit in the dmu_tx kstat file
  with dmu_tx_dirty_delay and dmu_tx_dirty_over_max.  The first counts
  how many times a transaction has been delayed because the pool dirty
  data has exceeded zfs_delay_min_dirty_percent.  The latter counts how
  many times the pool dirty data has exceeded zfs_dirty_data_max (which
  we expect to never happen).

- The original patch would have regressed the bug fixed in
  zfsonlinux/zfs@c418410, which prevented users from setting the
  zfs_vdev_aggregation_limit tuning larger than SPA_MAXBLOCKSIZE.
  A similar fix is added to vdev_queue_aggregate().

- In vdev_queue_io_to_issue(), dynamically allocate 'zio_t search' on the
  heap instead of the stack.  In Linux we can't afford such large
  structures on the stack.

Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Reviewed by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.gregg@joyent.com>
Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>

References:
  http://www.illumos.org/issues/4045
  illumos/illumos-gate@69962b5647

Ported-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1913
2013-12-06 09:32:43 -08:00
Turbo Fredriksson 30607d9b7b Document SPL module parameters.
This is a first draft of a spl-module-parameters(5) man page. I have
just extracted the parameter name and its description with modinfo,
then checked the source what type it is and its default value.

This will need more work, preferably someone that actually know these
values and what to use them for.  Similar to zfsonlinux/zfs#1856, but
for the spl.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#1856
2013-11-21 12:32:41 -08:00
Turbo Fredriksson 29714574fa Document ZFS module parameters.
This is a first draft of a zfs-module-parameters(5) man page. I have
just extracted the parameter name and its description with modinfo,
then checked the source what type it is and its default value.

This will need more work, preferably someone that actually know these
values and what to use them for.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1856
2013-11-20 16:00:33 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf a31770283a Fix 1M references in zpool-features.5
The zpool-features(5) man page should reference the Linux zfs(8)
and zpool(8) man pages.  The 1M convention isn't used on Linux.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1184
2013-02-04 12:37:06 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 3795ae5ed7 Add zpool-features(5) man page
The zpool-features(5) man page was accidentally omitted from the
build target when feature flags was merged.  As a result it doesn't
get installed as part of 'make install' so none of the packages
include this man page.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1262
2013-02-04 12:10:11 -08:00
Eric Dillmann 9759c60f1a Illumos #3035 LZ4 compression support in ZFS and GRUB
3035 LZ4 compression support in ZFS and GRUB

Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by: Christopher Siden <csiden@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@a6f561b4ae
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3035
  http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/LZ4+Compression+In+ZFS

This patch has been slightly modified from the upstream Illumos
version to be compatible with Linux.  Due to the very limited
stack space in the kernel a lz4 workspace kmem cache is used.
Since we are using gcc we are also able to take advantage of the
gcc optimized __builtin_ctz functions.

Support for GRUB has been dropped from this patch.  That code
is available but those changes will need to made to the upstream
GRUB package.

Lastly, several hunks of dead code were dropped for clarity.  They
include the functions real_LZ4_uncompress(), LZ4_compressBound()
and the Visual Studio specific hunks wrapped in _MSC_VER.

Ported-by: Eric Dillmann <eric@jave.fr>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1217
2013-01-29 09:28:20 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens 753c38392d Illumos #3104: eliminate empty bpobjs
3104 eliminate empty bpobjs
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@f174573681
  illumos changeset: 13782:8f78aae28a63
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3104

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-08 10:35:43 -08:00
Christopher Siden b9b24bb4ca Illumos #2762: zpool command should have better support for feature flags
2762 zpool command should have better support for feature flags
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <Eric.Schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@57221772c3
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2762

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-08 10:35:43 -08:00
Christopher Siden 9ae529ec5d Illumos #2619 and #2747
2619 asynchronous destruction of ZFS file systems
2747 SPA versioning with zfs feature flags
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <gwilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Reviewed by: Dan Kruchinin <dan.kruchinin@gmail.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <Eric.Schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@53089ab7c8
  illumos/illumos-gate@ad135b5d64
  illumos changeset: 13700:2889e2596bd6
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2619
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2747

NOTE: The grub specific changes were not ported.  This change
must be made to the Linux grub packages.

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-08 10:35:35 -08:00
Ned Bass 2957f38d78 vdev_id support for device link aliases
Add a vdev_id feature to map device names based on already defined
udev device links.  To increase the odds that vdev_id will run after
the rules it depends on, increase the vdev.rules rule number from 60
to 69.  With this change, vdev_id now provides functionality analogous
to zpool_id and zpool_layout, paving the way to retire those tools.

A defined alias takes precedence over a topology-derived name, but the
two naming methods can otherwise coexist. For example, one might name
drives in a JBOD with the sas_direct topology while naming an internal
L2ARC device with an alias.

For example, the following lines in vdev_id.conf will result in the
creation of links /dev/disk/by-vdev/{d1,d2}, each pointing to the same
target as the device link specified in the third field.

  #     by-vdev
  #     name     fully qualified or base name of device link
  alias d1       /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000c5002de3b9ca
  alias d2       wwn-0x5000c5002def789e

Also perform some minor vdev_id cleanup, such as removal of the unused
-s command line option.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #981
2012-12-03 14:04:47 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf ca8b5af89d Remove autotools products
Remove all of the generated autotools products from the repository
and update the .gitignore files accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #718
2012-08-27 11:47:44 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps ee5fd0bb80 Set zvol discard_granularity to the volblocksize.
Currently, zvols have a discard granularity set to 0, which suggests to
the upper layer that discard requests of arbirarily small size and
alignment can be made efficiently.

In practice however, ZFS does not handle unaligned discard requests
efficiently: indeed, it is unable to free a part of a block. It will
write zeros to the specified range instead, which is both useless and
inefficient (see dnode_free_range).

With this patch, zvol block devices expose volblocksize as their discard
granularity, so the upper layer is aware that it's not supposed to send
discard requests smaller than volblocksize.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #862
2012-08-07 14:55:31 -07:00
Richard Yao 739a1a82e0 Linux 3.5 compat, end_writeback() changed to clear_inode()
The end_writeback() function was changed by moving the call to
inode_sync_wait() earlier in to evict().   This effecitvely changes
the ordering of the sync but it does not impact the details of
the zfs implementation.

However, as part of this change end_writeback() was renamed to
clear_inode() to reflect the new semantics.  This change does
impact us and clear_inode() now maps to end_writeback() for
kernels prior to 3.5.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #784
2012-07-23 12:29:36 -07:00
Richard Yao ea1fdf46e2 Linux 3.5 compat, iops->truncate_range() removed
The vmtruncate_range() support has been removed from the kernel in
favor of using the fallocate method in the file_operations table.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #784
2012-07-23 12:29:32 -07:00
Richard Yao 756c3e5a9c Linux 3.5 compat, eops->encode_fh() takes inodes
The export_operations member ->encode_fh() has been updated to
take both the child and parent inodes.  This interface used to
take the child dentry and a bool describing if the parent is needed.

NOTE: While updating this code I noticed that we do not currently
cleanly handle the case where we're passed a connectable parent.
This code should be audited to make sure we're doing the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #784
2012-07-23 12:29:23 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps b5a28807cd Move partition scanning from userspace to module.
Currently, zpool online -e (dynamic vdev expansion) doesn't work on
whole disks because we're invoking ioctl(BLKRRPART) from userspace
while ZFS still has a partition open on the disk, which results in
EBUSY.

This patch moves the BLKRRPART invocation from the zpool utility to the
module. Specifically, this is done just before opening the device in
vdev_disk_open() which is called inside vdev_reopen(). This requires
jumping through some hoops to get to the disk device from the partition
device, and to make sure we can still open the partition after the
BLKRRPART call.

Note that this new code path is triggered on dynamic vdev expansion
only; other actions, like creating a new pool, are unchanged and still
call BLKRRPART from userspace.

This change also depends on API changes which are available in 2.6.37
and latter kernels.  The build system has been updated to detect this,
but there is no compatibility mode for older kernels.  This means that
online expansion will NOT be available in older kernels.  However, it
will still be possible to expand the vdev offline.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #808
2012-07-17 09:17:31 -07:00
Richard Yao 6a0936babc Linux 3.4 compat, d_make_root() replaces d_alloc_root()
torvalds/linux@adc0e91ab1 introduced
introduced d_make_root() as a replacement for d_alloc_root(). Further
commits appear to have removed d_alloc_root() from the Linux source
tree. This causes the following failure:

  error: implicit declaration of function 'd_alloc_root'
  [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

To correct this we update the code to use the current d_make_root()
interface for readability.  Then we introduce an autotools check
to determine if d_make_root() is available.  If it isn't then we
define some compatibility logic which used the older d_alloc_root()
interface.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #776
2012-06-11 10:04:49 -07:00
Ned A. Bass 821b683436 Add vdev_id for JBOD-friendly udev aliases
vdev_id parses the file /etc/zfs/vdev_id.conf to map a physical path
in a storage topology to a channel name.  The channel name is combined
with a disk enclosure slot number to create an alias that reflects the
physical location of the drive.  This is particularly helpful when it
comes to tasks like replacing failed drives.  Slot numbers may also be
re-mapped in case the default numbering is unsatisfactory.  The drive
aliases will be created as symbolic links in /dev/disk/by-vdev.

The only currently supported topologies are sas_direct and sas_switch:

o  sas_direct - a channel is uniquely identified by a PCI slot and a
   HBA port

o  sas_switch - a channel is uniquely identified by a SAS switch port

A multipath mode is supported in which dm-mpath devices are handled by
examining the first running component disk, as reported by 'multipath
-l'.  In multipath mode the configuration file should contain a
channel definition with the same name for each path to a given
enclosure.

vdev_id can replace the existing zpool_id script on systems where the
storage topology conforms to sas_direct or sas_switch.  The script
could be extended to support other topologies as well.  The advantage
of vdev_id is that it is driven by a single static input file that can
be shared across multiple nodes having a common storage toplogy.
zpool_id, on the other hand, requires a unique /etc/zfs/zdev.conf per
node and a separate slot-mapping file.  However, zpool_id provides the
flexibility of using any device names that show up in
/dev/disk/by-path, so it may still be needed on some systems.

vdev_id's functionality subsumes that of the sas_switch_id script, and
it is unlikely that anyone is using it, so sas_switch_id is removed.

Finally, /dev/disk/by-vdev is added to the list of directories that
'zpool import' will scan.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #713
2012-06-01 08:55:14 -07:00