'\" te .\" .\" Copyright 2013 Turbo Fredriksson . All rights reserved. .\" .TH SPL-MODULE-PARAMETERS 5 "Nov 18, 2013" .SH NAME spl\-module\-parameters \- SPL module parameters .SH DESCRIPTION .sp .LP Description of the different parameters to the SPL module. .SS "Module parameters" .sp .LP .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_debug_subsys\fR (ulong) .ad .RS 12n Subsystem debugging level mask. .sp Default value: \fB~0\fR. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_debug_mask\fR (ulong) .ad .RS 12n Debugging level mask. .sp Default value: \fB8 | 10 | 4 | 20\fR (SD_ERROR | SD_EMERG | SD_WARNING | SD_CONSOLE). .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_debug_printk\fR (ulong) .ad .RS 12n Console printk level mask. .sp Default value: \fB8 | 10 | 4 | 20\fR (SD_ERROR | SD_EMERG | SD_WARNING | SD_CONSOLE). .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_debug_mb\fR (int) .ad .RS 12n Total debug buffer size. .sp Default value: \fB-1\fR. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_debug_panic_on_bug\fR (int) .ad .RS 12n Panic on BUG .sp Use \fB1\fR for yes and \fB0\fR for no (default). .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_kmem_cache_expire\fR (uint) .ad .RS 12n By age (0x1) or low memory (0x2) .sp Default value: \fB0\fR. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_kmem_alloc_warn\fR (uint) .ad .RS 12n As a general rule kmem_alloc() allocations should be small, preferably just a few pages since they must by physically contiguous. Therefore, a rate limited warning will be printed to the console for any kmem_alloc() which exceeds a reasonable threshold. The default warning threshold is set to eight pages but capped at 32K to accommodate systems using large pages. This value was selected to be small enough to ensure the largest allocations are quickly noticed and fixed. But large enough to avoid logging any warnings when a allocation size is larger than optimal but not a serious concern. Since this value is tunable, developers are encouraged to set it lower when testing so any new largish allocations are quickly caught. These warnings may be disabled by setting the threshold to zero. .sp Default value: \fB32K\fR. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_kmem_alloc_max\fR (uint) .ad .RS 12n Large kmem_alloc() allocations will fail if they exceed KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE. Allocations which are marginally smaller than this limit may succeed but should still be avoided due to the expense of locating a contiguous range of free pages. Therefore, a maximum kmem size with reasonable safely margin of 4x is set. Kmem_alloc() allocations larger than this maximum will quickly fail. Vmem_alloc() allocations less than or equal to this value will use kmalloc(), but shift to vmalloc() when exceeding this value. .sp Default value: \fBKMALLOC_MAX_SIZE/4\fR. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_kmem_cache_magazine_size\fR (uint) .ad .RS 12n Cache magazines are an optimization designed to minimize the cost of allocating memory. They do this by keeping a per-cpu cache of recently freed objects, which can then be reallocated without taking a lock. This can improve performance on highly contended caches. However, because objects in magazines will prevent otherwise empty slabs from being immediately released this may not be ideal for low memory machines. .sp For this reason \fBspl_kmem_cache_magazine_size\fR can be used to set a maximum magazine size. When this value is set to 0 the magazine size will be automatically determined based on the object size. Otherwise magazines will be limited to 2-256 objects per magazine (i.e per cpu). Magazines may never be entirely disabled in this implementation. .sp Default value: \fB0\fR. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_hostid\fR (ulong) .ad .RS 12n The system hostid. .sp Default value: \fB0xFFFFFFFF\fR (an invalid hostid!) .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_hostid_path\fR (charp) .ad .RS 12n The system hostid file .sp Default value: \fB/etc/hostid\fR. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fBspl_taskq_thread_bind\fR (int) .ad .RS 12n Bind taskq thread to CPU .sp Default value: \fB0\fR. .RE