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Gvozden Neskovic ae25d22235 Add RAID-Z routines for SSE2 instruction set, in x86_64 mode.
The patch covers low-end and older x86 CPUs.  Parity generation is
equivalent to SSSE3 implementation, but reconstruction is somewhat
slower.  Previous 'sse' implementation is renamed to 'ssse3' to
indicate highest instruction set used.

Benchmark results:
scalar_rec_p                    4    720476442
scalar_rec_q                    4    187462804
scalar_rec_r                    4    138996096
scalar_rec_pq                   4    140834951
scalar_rec_pr                   4    129332035
scalar_rec_qr                   4    81619194
scalar_rec_pqr                  4    53376668

sse2_rec_p                      4    2427757064
sse2_rec_q                      4    747120861
sse2_rec_r                      4    499871637
sse2_rec_pq                     4    522403710
sse2_rec_pr                     4    464632780
sse2_rec_qr                     4    319124434
sse2_rec_pqr                    4    205794190

ssse3_rec_p                     4    2519939444
ssse3_rec_q                     4    1003019289
ssse3_rec_r                     4    616428767
ssse3_rec_pq                    4    706326396
ssse3_rec_pr                    4    570493618
ssse3_rec_qr                    4    400185250
ssse3_rec_pqr                   4    377541245

original_rec_p                  4    691658568
original_rec_q                  4    195510948
original_rec_r                  4    26075538
original_rec_pq                 4    103087368
original_rec_pr                 4    15767058
original_rec_qr                 4    15513175
original_rec_pqr                4    10746357

Signed-off-by: Gvozden Neskovic <neskovic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4783
2016-07-13 10:24:55 -07:00
Gvozden Neskovic ab9f4b0b82 SIMD implementation of vdev_raidz generate and reconstruct routines
This is a new implementation of RAIDZ1/2/3 routines using x86_64
scalar, SSE, and AVX2 instruction sets. Included are 3 parity
generation routines (P, PQ, and PQR) and 7 reconstruction routines,
for all RAIDZ level. On module load, a quick benchmark of supported
routines will select the fastest for each operation and they will
be used at runtime. Original implementation is still present and
can be selected via module parameter.

Patch contains:
- specialized gen/rec routines for all RAIDZ levels,
- new scalar raidz implementation (unrolled),
- two x86_64 SIMD implementations (SSE and AVX2 instructions sets),
- fastest routines selected on module load (benchmark).
- cmd/raidz_test - verify and benchmark all implementations
- added raidz_test to the ZFS Test Suite

New zfs module parameters:
- zfs_vdev_raidz_impl (str): selects the implementation to use. On
  module load, the parameter will only accept first 3 options, and
  the other implementations can be set once module is finished
  loading. Possible values for this option are:
    "fastest" - use the fastest math available
    "original" - use the original raidz code
    "scalar" - new scalar impl
    "sse" - new SSE impl if available
    "avx2" - new AVX2 impl if available

See contents of `/sys/module/zfs/parameters/zfs_vdev_raidz_impl` to
get the list of supported values. If an implementation is not supported
on the system, it will not be shown. Currently selected option is
enclosed in `[]`.

Signed-off-by: Gvozden Neskovic <neskovic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4328
2016-06-21 09:27:26 -07:00
Jinshan Xiong 1eeb4562a7 Implementation of AVX2 optimized Fletcher-4
New functionality:
- Preserves existing scalar implementation.
- Adds AVX2 optimized Fletcher-4 computation.
- Fastest routines selected on module load (benchmark).
- Test case for Fletcher-4 added to ztest.

New zcommon module parameters:
-  zfs_fletcher_4_impl (str): selects the implementation to use.
    "fastest" - use the fastest version available
    "cycle"   - cycle trough all available impl for ztest
    "scalar"  - use the original version
    "avx2"    - new AVX2 implementation if available

Performance comparison (Intel i7 CPU, 1MB data buffers):
- Scalar:  4216 MB/s
- AVX2:   14499 MB/s

See contents of `/sys/module/zcommon/parameters/zfs_fletcher_4_impl`
to get list of supported values. If an implementation is not supported
on the system, it will not be shown. Currently selected option is
enclosed in `[]`.

Signed-off-by: Jinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4330
2016-06-02 14:30:51 -07:00
DHE 8342673502 Improve zfs-module-parameters(5)
Various rewrites to the descriptions of module parameters. Corrects
spelling mistakes, makes descriptions them more user-friendly and
describes some ZFS quirks which should be understood before changing
parameter values.

Signed-off-by: DHE <git@dehacked.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4671
2016-05-23 11:08:45 -07:00
Richard Laager 1c0120832c Correct typo in spa_load_verify_metadata docs
Signed-off-by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4471
2016-03-29 18:33:16 -07:00
smh 9f500936c8 FreeBSD r256956: Improve ZFS N-way mirror read performance by using load and locality information.
The existing algorithm selects a preferred leaf vdev based on offset of the zio
request modulo the number of members in the mirror. It assumes the devices are
of equal performance and that spreading the requests randomly over both drives
will be sufficient to saturate them. In practice this results in the leaf vdevs
being under utilized.

The new algorithm takes into the following additional factors:
* Load of the vdevs (number outstanding I/O requests)
* The locality of last queued I/O vs the new I/O request.

Within the locality calculation additional knowledge about the underlying vdev
is considered such as; is the device backing the vdev a rotating media device.

This results in performance increases across the board as well as significant
increases for predominantly streaming loads and for configurations which don't
have evenly performing devices.

The following are results from a setup with 3 Way Mirror with 2 x HD's and
1 x SSD from a basic test running multiple parrallel dd's.

With pre-fetch disabled (vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1):

== Stripe Balanced (default) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 161 seconds @ 95 MB/s
== Load Balanced (zfslinux) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 297 seconds @ 51 MB/s
== Load Balanced (locality freebsd) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 54 seconds @ 284 MB/s

With pre-fetch enabled (vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0):

== Stripe Balanced (default) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 91 seconds @ 168 MB/s
== Load Balanced (zfslinux) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 108 seconds @ 142 MB/s
== Load Balanced (locality freebsd) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 48 seconds @ 320 MB/s

In addition to the performance changes the code was also restructured, with
the help of Justin Gibbs, to provide a more logical flow which also ensures
vdevs loads are only calculated from the set of valid candidates.

The following additional sysctls where added to allow the administrator
to tune the behaviour of the load algorithm:
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.rotating_inc
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.rotating_seek_inc
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.rotating_seek_offset
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.non_rotating_inc
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.non_rotating_seek_inc

These changes where based on work started by the zfsonlinux developers:
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/1487

Reviewed by:	gibbs, mav, will
MFC after:	2 weeks
Sponsored by:	Multiplay

References:
  https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd@5c7a6f5d
  https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd@31b7f68d
  https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd@e186f564

Performance Testing:
  https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/4334#issuecomment-189057141

Porting notes:
- The tunables were adjusted to have ZoL-style names.
- The code was modified to use ZoL's vd_nonrot.
- Fixes were done to make cstyle.pl happy
- Merge conflicts were handled manually
- freebsd/freebsd@e186f564bc by my
  collegue Andriy Gapon has been included. It applied perfectly, but
  added a cstyle regression.
- This replaces 556011dbec entirely.
- A typo "IO'a" has been corrected to say "IO's"
- Descriptions of new tunables were added to man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5.

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4334
2016-02-26 11:24:35 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 8a09d5fd46 Add l2arc_max_block_size tunable
Set a limit for the largest compressed block which can be written
to an L2ARC device.  By default this limit is set to 16M so there
is no change in behavior.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Elling <Richard.Elling@RichardElling.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes #4323
2016-02-25 09:44:00 -08:00
kernelOfTruth a966c5640e Reintroduce zfs_remove() synchronous deletes
Reintroduce a slightly adapted version of the Illumos logic for
synchronous unlinks.  The basic idea here is that only files
smaller than zfs_delete_blocks (20480) blocks should be deleted
synchronously.  Unlinking larger files should be handled
asynchronously to minimize impact to the caller.

To accomplish this iput() which is responsible for calling
zfs_znode_delete() on Linux is only called in the delete_now
path.  Otherwise zfs_async_iput() is used which allows the
last reference to be dropped by a taskq thread effectively
making the removal asynchronous.

Porting notes:
- Add zfs_delete_blocks module option for performance analysis.
  The default value is DMU_MAX_DELETEBLKCNT which is the same
  as upstream.  Reducing this value means that smaller files
  will be unlinked asynchronously like large files.
- All occurrences of zfsvfs changes to zsb.

Ported-by: KernelOfTruth kerneloftruth@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2016-01-26 15:26:02 -08:00
George Wilson ba5ad9a48d Illumos 6251 - add tunable to disable free_bpobj processing
6251 - add tunable to disable free_bpobj processing
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Prakash Surya <prakash.surya@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Simon Klinkert <simon.klinkert@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Elling <Richard.Elling@RichardElling.com>
Reviewed by: Albert Lee <trisk@omniti.com>
Reviewed by: Xin Li <delphij@freebsd.org>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/6251
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/139510f

Porting notes:
- Added as module option declaration.
- Added to zfs-module-parameters.5 man page.

Ported-by: Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2016-01-25 13:15:17 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens 7f60329a26 Illumos 5987 - zfs prefetch code needs work
5987 zfs prefetch code needs work
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Paul Dagnelie <pcd@delphix.com>
Approved by: Gordon Ross <gordon.ross@nexenta.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/5987 zfs prefetch code needs work
  illumos/illumos-gate@cf6106c 5987 zfs prefetch code needs work

Porting notes:
- [module/zfs/dbuf.c]
  - 5f6d0b6 Handle block pointers with a corrupt logical size
- [module/zfs/dmu_zfetch.c]
  - c65aa5b Fix gcc missing parenthesis warnings
  - 428870f Update core ZFS code from build 121 to build 141.
  - 79c76d5 Change KM_PUSHPAGE -> KM_SLEEP
  - b8d06fc Switch KM_SLEEP to KM_PUSHPAGE
  - Account for ISO C90 - mixed declarations and code - warnings
  - Module parameters (new/changed):
    - Replaced zfetch_block_cap with zfetch_max_distance
      (Max bytes to prefetch per stream (default 8MB; 8 * 1024 * 1024))
    - Preserved zfs_prefetch_disable as 'int' for consistency with
      existing Linux module options.
- [include/sys/trace_arc.h]
  - Added new tracepoints
    - DEFINE_ARC_BUF_HDR_EVENT(zfs_arc__sync__wait__for__async);
    - DEFINE_ARC_BUF_HDR_EVENT(zfs_arc__demand__hit__predictive__prefetch);
- [man/man5/zfs-module-parameters.5]
  - Updated man page

Ported-by: kernelOfTruth kerneloftruth@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2016-01-12 09:02:33 -08:00
DHE dcb6bed1df Make zio_taskq_batch_pct user configurable
Adds zio_taskq_batch_pct as an exported module parameter,
allowing users to modify it at module load time.

Signed-off-by: DHE <git@dehacked.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4110
2015-12-18 13:46:23 -08:00
Ned Bass 6b4e21c60e Man page white space and spelling corrections
Correct some misspelled words and grammatical errors, and remove
trailing white space in the man pages.

Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4115
2015-12-18 13:33:37 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 9965059ab9 Prefetch start and end of volumes
When adding a zvol to the system prefetch zvol_prefetch_bytes from the
start and end of the volume.  Prefetching these regions of the volume is
desirable because they are likely to be accessed immediately by blkid(8),
the kernel scanning for a partition table, or another task which probes
the devices.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3659
2015-09-09 14:38:29 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 3b36f8319d Add dbgmsg kstat
Internally ZFS keeps a small log to facilitate debugging.  By default
the log is disabled, to enable it set zfs_dbgmsg_enable=1.  The contents
of the log can be accessed by reading the /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dbgmsg file.
Writing 0 to this proc file clears the log.

$ echo 1 >/sys/module/zfs/parameters/zfs_dbgmsg_enable
$ echo 0 >/proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dbgmsg
$ zpool import tank
$ cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dbgmsg
1 0 0x01 -1 0 2492357525542 2525836565501
timestamp    message
1441141408   spa=tank async request task=1
1441141408   txg 70 open pool version 5000; software version 5000/5; ...
1441141409   spa=tank async request task=32
1441141409   txg 72 import pool version 5000; software version 5000/5; ...
1441141414   command: lt-zpool import tank

Note the zfs_dbgmsg() and dprintf() functions are both now mapped to
the same log.  As mentioned above the kernel debug log can be accessed
though the /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dbgmsg kstat.  For user space consumers
log messages are immediately written to stdout after applying the
ZFS_DEBUG environment variable.

$ ZFS_DEBUG=on ./cmd/ztest/ztest -V

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Closes #3728
2015-09-04 16:08:14 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 0500e835af Support accessing .zfs/snapshot via NFS
This patch is based on the previous work done by @andrey-ve and
@yshui.  It triggers the automount by using kern_path() to traverse
to the known snapshout mount point.  Once the snapshot is mounted
NFS can access the contents of the snapshot.

Allowing NFS clients to access to the .zfs/snapshot directory would
normally mean that a root user on a client mounting an export with
'no_root_squash' would be able to use mkdir/rmdir/mv to manipulate
snapshots on the server.  To prevent configuration mistakes a
zfs_admin_snapshot module option was added which disables the
mkdir/rmdir/mv functionally.  System administators desiring this
functionally must explicitly enable it.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2797
Closes #1655
Closes #616
2015-09-04 13:23:53 -07:00
Richard Yao 37f9dac592 zvol processing should use struct bio
Internally, zvols are files exposed through the block device API. This
is intended to reduce overhead when things require block devices.
However, the ZoL zvol code emulates a traditional block device in that
it has a top half and a bottom half. This is an unnecessary source of
overhead that does not exist on any other OpenZFS platform does this.
This patch removes it. Early users of this patch reported double digit
performance gains in IOPS on zvols in the range of 50% to 80%.

Comments in the code suggest that the current implementation was done to
obtain IO merging from Linux's IO elevator. However, the DMU already
does write merging while arc_read() should implicitly merge read IOs
because only 1 thread is permitted to fetch the buffer into ARC. In
addition, commercial ZFSOnLinux distributions report that regular files
are more performant than zvols under the current implementation, and the
main consumers of zvols are VMs and iSCSI targets, which have their own
elevators to merge IOs.

Some minor refactoring allows us to register zfs_request() as our
->make_request() handler in place of the generic_make_request()
function. This eliminates the layer of code that broke IO requests on
zvols into a top half and a bottom half. This has several benefits:

1. No per zvol spinlocks.
2. No redundant IO elevator processing.
3. Interrupts are disabled only when actually necessary.
4. No redispatching of IOs when all taskq threads are busy.
5. Linux's page out routines will properly block.
6. Many autotools checks become obsolete.

An unfortunate consequence of eliminating the layer that
generic_make_request() is that we no longer calls the instrumentation
hooks for block IO accounting. Those hooks are GPL-exported, so we
cannot call them ourselves and consequently, we lose the ability to do
IO monitoring via iostat.  Since zvols are internally files mapped as
block devices, this should be okay. Anyone who is willing to accept the
performance penalty for the block IO layer's accounting could use the
loop device in between the zvol and its consumer. Alternatively, perf
and ftrace likely could be used. Also, tools like latencytop will still
work. Tools such as latencytop sometimes provide a better view of
performance bottlenecks than the traditional block IO accounting tools
do.

Lastly, if direct reclaim occurs during spacemap loading and swap is on
a zvol, this code will deadlock. That deadlock could already occur with
sync=always on zvols. Given that swap on zvols is not yet production
ready, this is not a blocker.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
2015-09-04 15:30:24 -04:00
Brian Behlendorf 6cde64351e Add spa_slop_shift module option
Allow for easy turning of a pools reserved free space.  Previous
versions of ZFS (v0.6.4 and earlier) held 1/64 of the pools capacity
in reserve.  Commits 3d45fdd and 0c60cc3 increased this to 1/32.
Setting spa_slop_shift=6 will restore the previous default setting.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3724
2015-09-02 09:30:18 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 7e8bddd019 Update arc_memory_throttle() to check pageout
This brings the behavior of arc_memory_throttle() back in sync with
illumos.  The updated memory throttling policy roughly goes like this:

* Never throttle if more than 10% of memory is free.  This threshold
  is configurable with the zfs_arc_lotsfree_percent module option.

* Minimize any throttling of kswapd even when free memory is below
  the set threshold.  Allow it to write out pages as quickly as
  possible to help alleviate the memory pressure.

* Delay all other threads when free memory is below the set threshold
  in order to avoid compounding the memory pressure.  Buffers will be
  evicted from the ARC to reduce the issue.

The Linux specific zfs_arc_memory_throttle_disable module option has
been removed in favor of the existing zfs_arc_lotsfree_percent tuning.
Setting zfs_arc_lotsfree_percent=0 will have the same effect as
zfs_arc_memory_throttle_disable and it was therefore redundant.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3637
2015-07-30 11:52:12 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 11f552fa90 Update arc_available_memory() to check freemem
While Linux doesn't provide detailed information about the state of
the VM it does provide us total free pages.  This information should
be incorporated in to the arc_available_memory() calculation rather
than solely relying on a signal from direct reclaim.  Conceptually
this brings arc_available_memory() back in sync with illumos.

It is also desirable that the target amount of free memory be tunable
on a system.  While the default values are expected to work well
for most workloads there may be cases where custom values are needed.
The zfs_arc_sys_free module option was added for this purpose.

zfs_arc_sys_free - The target number of bytes the ARC should leave
                   as free memory on the system.  This value can
                   checked in /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats and
                   setting this module option will override the
                   default value.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3637
2015-07-30 11:50:22 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 6339c1b9dc Bound zvol_threads module option
The zvol_threads module option should be bounded to a reasonable
range.  The taskq must have at least 1 thread and shouldn't have
more than 1,024 at most.  The default value of 32 is a reasonable
default.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3614
2015-07-29 07:42:11 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 728d6ae91e Reinstate zfs_arc_p_min_shift
Commit f521ce1 removed the minimum value for "arc_p" allowing it to
drop to zero or grow to "arc_c".  This was done to improve specific
workload which constantly dirties new "metadata" but also frequently
touches a "small" amount of mfu data (e.g. mkdir's).

This change may still be desirable but it needs to be re-investigated.
in the context of the recent ARC changes from upstream.  Therefore
this code is being restored to facilitate benchmarking.  By setting
"zfs_arc_p_min_shift=64" we easily compare the performance.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3533
2015-07-23 09:42:32 -07:00
Colin Ian King 8f3439733f man: fix spelling mistakes in manual
A few minor mistakes than should be fixed:

zpool:
  compatability -> compatibility

zfs:
  accessable -> accessible
  availible  -> available

zfs-events:
  availible -> available

zfs-module-parameters:
  proceding -> proceeding

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3544
2015-07-01 10:58:31 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps 99b14de421 Make metaslab_aliquot a module parameter.
This seems generally useful. metaslab_aliquot is the ZFS allocation
granularity, which is roughly equivalent to what is called the stripe
size in traditional RAID arrays. It seems relevant to performance
tuning.

Signed-off-by: Etienne Dechamps <etienne@edechamps.fr>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-06-22 14:19:38 -07:00
Prakash Surya ca0bf58d65 Illumos 5497 - lock contention on arcs_mtx
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Elling <richard.elling@richardelling.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>

Porting notes and other significant code changes:

The illumos 5368 patch (ARC should cache more metadata), which
was never picked up by ZoL, is mostly reverted by this patch.

Since ZoL relies on the kernel asynchronously calling the shrinker to
actually reap memory, the shrinker wakes up arc_reclaim_waiters_cv every
time it runs.

The arc_adapt_thread() function no longer calls arc_do_user_evicts()
since the newly-added arc_user_evicts_thread() calls it periodically.

Notable conflicting ZoL commits which conflicted with this patch or
whose effects are either duplicated or un-done by this patch:

    302f753 - Integrate ARC more tightly with Linux
    39e055c - Adjust arc_p based on "bytes" in arc_shrink
    f521ce1 - Allow "arc_p" to drop to zero or grow to "arc_c"
    77765b5 - Remove "arc_meta_used" from arc_adjust calculation
    94520ca - Prune metadata from ghost lists in arc_adjust_meta

Trace support for multilist_insert() and multilist_remove() has been
added and produces the following output:

    fio-12498 [077] .... 112936.448324: zfs_multilist__insert: ml { offset 240 numsublists 80 sublistidx 63 }
    fio-12498 [077] .... 112936.448347: zfs_multilist__remove: ml { offset 240 numsublists 80 sublistidx 29 }

The following arcstats have been removed:

    recycle_miss - Used by arcstat.py and arc_summary.py, both of which
    have been updated appropriately.

    l2_writes_hdr_miss

The following arcstats have been added:

    evict_not_enough - Number of times arc_evict_state() was unable to
    evict enough buffers to reach its target amount.

    evict_l2_skip - Number of times arc_evict_hdr() skipped eviction
    because it was being written to the l2arc.

    l2_writes_lock_retry - Replaces l2_writes_hdr_miss.  Number of times
    l2arc_write_done() failed to acquire hash_lock (and re-tries).

    arc_meta_min - Shows the value of the zfs_arc_meta_min module
    parameter (see below).

The "index" column of the "dbuf" kstat has been removed since it doesn't
have a direct analog in the new multilist scheme.  Additional multilist-
related stats could be added in the future but would likely require
extensions to the mulilist API.

The following module parameters have been added:

    zfs_arc_evict_batch_limit - Number of ARC headers to free per sub-list
    before moving on to the next sub-list.

    zfs_arc_meta_min - Enforce a floor on the amount of metadata in
    the ARC.

    zfs_arc_num_sublists_per_state - Number of multilist sub-lists per
    ARC state.

    zfs_arc_overflow_shift - Controls amount by which the ARC must exceed
    the target size to be considered "overflowing".

Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov
2015-06-11 10:27:25 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens f1512ee61e Illumos 5027 - zfs large block support
5027 zfs large block support
Reviewed by: Alek Pinchuk <pinchuk.alek@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <josef.sipek@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Elling <richard.elling@richardelling.com>
Reviewed by: Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/5027
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/b515258

Porting Notes:

* Included in this patch is a tiny ISP2() cleanup in zio_init() from
Illumos 5255.

* Unlike the upstream Illumos commit this patch does not impose an
arbitrary 128K block size limit on volumes.  Volumes, like filesystems,
are limited by the zfs_max_recordsize=1M module option.

* By default the maximum record size is limited to 1M by the module
option zfs_max_recordsize.  This value may be safely increased up to
16M which is the largest block size supported by the on-disk format.
At the moment, 1M blocks clearly offer a significant performance
improvement but the benefits of going beyond this for the majority
of workloads are less clear.

* The illumos version of this patch increased DMU_MAX_ACCESS to 32M.
This was determined not to be large enough when using 16M blocks
because the zfs_make_xattrdir() function will fail (EFBIG) when
assigning a TX.  This was immediately observed under Linux because
all newly created files must have a security xattr created and
that was failing.  Therefore, we've set DMU_MAX_ACCESS to 64M.

* On 32-bit platforms a hard limit of 1M is set for blocks due
to the limited virtual address space.  We should be able to relax
this one the ABD patches are merged.

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #354
2015-05-11 12:23:16 -07:00
cburroughs 7008109646 align zfs_autoimport_disable manpage with reality
The default was changed in #2820.

Signed-off-by: cburroughs <chris.burroughs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3341
2015-04-24 14:58:38 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 74aa2ba259 Update zfs_pd_bytes_max default in zfs(8)
Commit b738bc5 should have updated the default value of zfs_pd_bytes_max
in the zfs(8) man page.  The correct default value is 50*1024*1024.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-03-31 11:55:28 -07:00
George Wilson b738bc5a0f Illumos 5694 - traverse_prefetcher does not prefetch enough
5694 traverse_prefetcher does not prefetch enough
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Alex Reece <alex@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <josef.sipek@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Bayard Bell <buffer.g.overflow@gmail.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/5694
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/34d7ce05

Ported-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3230
2015-03-27 15:02:50 -07:00
Isaac Huang e89bd69775 zio_injection_enabled should not be a module option
The zio_inject.c keeps zio_injection_enabled as a counter of
fault handlers, so it should not be exported to user space as
a module option.

Several EXPORT_SYMBOLs are moved from zio.c to zio_inject.c,
where the symbols are defined.

Signed-off-by: Isaac Huang <he.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3199
2015-03-24 13:22:03 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf bc88866657 Fix arc_adjust_meta() behavior
The goal of this function is to evict enough meta data buffers from the
ARC in order to enforce the arc_meta_limit.  Achieving this is slightly
more complicated than it appears because it is common for data buffers
to have holds on meta data buffers.  In addition, dnode meta data buffers
will be held by the dnodes in the block preventing them from being freed.
This means we can't simply traverse the ARC and expect to always find
enough unheld meta data buffer to release.

Therefore, this function has been updated to make alternating passes
over the ARC releasing data buffers and then newly unheld meta data
buffers.  This ensures forward progress is maintained and arc_meta_used
will decrease.  Normally this is sufficient, but if required the ARC
will call the registered prune callbacks causing dentry and inodes to
be dropped from the VFS cache.  This will make dnode meta data buffers
available for reclaim.  The number of total restarts in limited by
zfs_arc_meta_adjust_restarts to prevent spinning in the rare case
where all meta data is pinned.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Snajdr <snajpa@snajpa.net>
Issue #3160
2015-03-20 10:35:20 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 2cbb06b561 Restructure per-filesystem reclaim
Originally when the ARC prune callback was introduced the idea was
to register a single callback for the ZPL.  The ARC could invoke this
call back if it needed the ZPL to drop dentries, inodes, or other
cache objects which might be pinning buffers in the ARC.  The ZPL
would iterate over all ZFS super blocks and perform the reclaim.

For the most part this design has worked well but due to limitations
in 2.6.35 and earlier kernels there were some problems.  This patch
is designed to address those issues.

1) iterate_supers_type() is not provided by all kernels which makes
it impossible to safely iterate over all zpl_fs_type filesystems in
a single callback.  The most straight forward and portable way to
resolve this is to register a callback per-filesystem during mount.
The arc_*_prune_callback() functions have always supported multiple
callbacks so this is functionally a very small change.

2) Commit 050d22b removed the non-portable shrink_dcache_memory()
and shrink_icache_memory() functions and didn't replace them with
equivalent functionality.  This meant that for Linux 3.1 and older
kernels the ARC had no mechanism to drop dentries and inodes from
the caches if needed.  This patch adds that missing functionality
by calling shrink_dcache_parent() to release dentries which may be
pinning inodes.  This will result in all unused cache entries being
dropped which is a bit heavy handed but it's the only interface
available for old kernels.

3) A zpl_drop_inode() callback is registered for kernels older than
2.6.35 which do not support the .evict_inode callback.  This ensures
that when the last reference on an inode is dropped it is immediately
removed from the cache.  If this isn't done than inode can end up on
the global unused LRU with no mechanism available to ZFS to drop them.
Since the ARC buffers are not dropped the hottest inodes can still
be recreated without performing disk IO.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Snajdr <snajpa@snajpa.net>
Issue #3160
2015-03-20 10:35:20 -07:00
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
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
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
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
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
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 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