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Setting the TASKQ_DYNAMIC flag will create a taskq with dynamic semantics. Initially only a single worker thread will be created to service tasks dispatched to the queue. As additional threads are needed they will be dynamically spawned up to the max number specified by 'nthreads'. When the threads are no longer needed, because the taskq is empty, they will automatically terminate. Due to the low cost of creating and destroying threads under Linux by default new threads and spawned and terminated aggressively. There are two modules options which can be tuned to adjust this behavior if needed. * spl_taskq_thread_sequential - The number of sequential tasks, without interruption, which needed to be handled by a worker thread before a new worker thread is spawned. Default 4. * spl_taskq_thread_dynamic - Provides the ability to completely disable the use of dynamic taskqs on the system. This is provided for the purposes of debugging and troubleshooting. Default 1 (enabled). This behavior is fundamentally consistent with the dynamic taskq implementation found in both illumos and FreeBSD. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com> Closes #458 |
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README.markdown
The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Solaris development closely and do not want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives.
To build packages for your distribution:
$ ./configure
$ make pkg
If you are building directly from the git tree and not an officially released tarball you will need to generate the configure script. This can be done by executing the autogen.sh script after installing the GNU autotools for your distribution.
To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin compilation:
$ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
$ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...
The SPL comes with an automated test suite called SPLAT. The test suite is implemented in two parts. There is a kernel module which contains the tests and a user space utility which controls which tests are run. To run the full test suite:
$ sudo insmod ./module/splat/splat.ko
$ sudo ./cmd/splat --all
Full documentation for building, configuring, testing, and using the SPL can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org