To make better predictions on parallel workloads dmu_zfetch() should
be called as early as possible to reduce possible request reordering.
In particular, it should be called before dmu_buf_hold_array_by_dnode()
calls dbuf_hold(), which may sleep waiting for indirect blocks, waking
up multiple threads same time on completion, that can significantly
reorder the requests, making the stream look like random. But we
should not issue prefetch requests before the on-demand ones, since
they may get to the disks first despite the I/O scheduler, increasing
on-demand request latency.
This patch splits dmu_zfetch() into two functions: dmu_zfetch_prepare()
and dmu_zfetch_run(). The first can be executed as early as needed.
It only updates statistics and makes predictions without issuing any
I/Os. The I/O issuance is handled by dmu_zfetch_run(), which can be
called later when all on-demand I/Os are already issued. It even
tracks the activity of other concurrent threads, issuing the prefetch
only when _all_ on-demand requests are issued.
For many years it was a big problem for storage servers, handling
deeper request queues from their clients, having to either serialize
consequential reads to make ZFS prefetcher usable, or execute the
incoming requests as-is and get almost no prefetch from ZFS, relying
only on deep enough prefetch by the clients. Benefits of those ways
varied, but neither was perfect. With this patch deeper queue
sequential read benchmarks with CrystalDiskMark from Windows via
iSCSI to FreeBSD target show me much better throughput with almost
100% prefetcher hit rate, comparing to almost zero before.
While there, I also removed per-stream zs_lock as useless, completely
covered by parent zf_lock. Also I reused zs_blocks refcount to track
zf_stream linkage of the stream, since I believe previous zs_fetch ==
NULL check in dmu_zfetch_stream_done() was racy.
Delete prefetch streams when they reach ends of files. It saves up
to 1KB of RAM per file, plus reduces searches through the stream list.
Block data prefetch (speculation and indirect block prefetch is still
done since they are cheaper) if all dbufs of the stream are already
in DMU cache. First cache miss immediately fires all the prefetch
that would be done for the stream by that time. It saves some CPU
time if same files within DMU cache capacity are read over and over.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Adam Moss <c@yotes.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored-By: iXsystems, Inc.
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