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Chunwei Chen 64c259c509 Batch free zpl_posix_acl_release
Currently every calls to zpl_posix_acl_release will schedule a delayed task,
and each delayed task will add a timer. This used to be fine except for
possibly bad performance impact.

However, in Linux 4.8, a new timer wheel implementation[1] is introduced. In
this new implementation, the larger the delay, the less accuracy the timer is.
So when we have a flood of timer from zpl_posix_acl_release, they will expire
at the same time. Couple with the fact that task_expire will do linear search
with lock held. This causes an extreme amount of contention inside interrupt
and would actually lockup the system.

We fix this by doing batch free to prevent a flood of delayed task. Every call
to zpl_posix_acl_release will put the posix_acl to be freed on a lockless
list. Every batch window, 1 sec, the zpl_posix_acl_free will fire up and free
every posix_acl that passed the grace period on the list. This way, we only
have one delayed task every second.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/646950/

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
2017-02-03 10:24:45 -08:00
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config Fix lookup_bdev() on Ubuntu 2017-02-03 10:24:34 -08:00
contrib Init script fixes 2015-09-29 15:27:14 -07:00
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lib Fix uninitialized variable snapprops_nvlist in zfs_receive_one 2017-02-03 10:24:30 -08:00
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rpm Process all systemd services through the systemd scriptlets 2017-02-03 10:24:41 -08:00
scripts Add support for asynchronous zvol minor operations 2016-03-22 18:08:04 -07:00
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README.markdown

Native ZFS for Linux!

ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the Illumos community.

ZFS on Linux, which is also known as ZoL, is currently feature complete. It includes fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, ZVOL, and ZPL layers.

Full documentation for installing ZoL on your favorite Linux distribution can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org