OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
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Use big transactions for small recordsize writes.
When ZFS appends files in chunks bigger than recordsize, it borrows
buffer from ARC and fills it before opening transaction.  This
supposed to help in case of page faults to not hold transaction open
indefinitely.  The problem appears when recordsize is set lower than
default 128KB. Since each block is committed in separate transaction,
per-transaction overhead becomes significant, and what is even worse,
active use of of per-dataset and per-pool locks to protect space use
accounting for each transaction badly hurts the code SMP scalability.
The same transaction size limitation applies in case of file rewrite,
but without even excuse of buffer borrowing.

To address the issue, disable the borrowing mechanism if recordsize
is smaller than default and the write request is 4x bigger than it.
In such case writes up to 32MB are executed in single transaction,
that dramatically reduces overhead and lock contention.  Since the
borrowing mechanism is not used for file rewrites, and it was never
used by zvols, which seem to work fine, I don't think this change
should create significant problems, partially because in addition to
the borrowing mechanism there are also used pre-faults.

My tests with 4/8 threads writing several files same time on datasets
with 32KB recordsize in 1MB requests show reduction of CPU usage by
the user threads by 25-35%.  I would measure it in GB/s, but at that
block size we are now limited by the lock contention of single write
issue taskqueue, which is a separate problem we are going to work on.

Reviewed-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by:	Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.
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OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community. This repository contains the code for running OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD.

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Official Resources

Installation

Full documentation for installing OpenZFS on your favorite operating system can be found at the Getting Started Page.

Contribute & Develop

We have a separate document with contribution guidelines.

We have a Code of Conduct.

Release

OpenZFS is released under a CDDL license. For more details see the NOTICE, LICENSE and COPYRIGHT files; UCRL-CODE-235197

Supported Kernels

  • The META file contains the officially recognized supported Linux kernel versions.
  • Supported FreeBSD versions are any supported branches and releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE.