Improve caching for dbuf prefetches

To avoid read errors with transaction open dmu_tx_check_ioerr()
is used to read everything required in advance.  But there seems
to be a chance for the buffer to evicted from dbuf cache in
between, which result in immediate eviction from ARC, which may
require additional disk read later in a place where error handling
is problematic.

To partially workaround this introduce a new flag DMU_IS_PREFETCH,
relayed to ARC as ARC_FLAG_PREFETCH | ARC_FLAG_PRESCIENT_PREFETCH,
making ARC delay eviction by at least several seconds, or till the
actual read inside the transaction, that will promote it to demand
access.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Motin <alexander.motin@TrueNAS.com>
Closes #18160
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Alexander Motin
2026-02-04 13:12:32 -05:00
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@@ -573,6 +573,7 @@ typedef enum dmu_flags {
DMU_PARTIAL_FIRST = 1 << 7, /* First partial access. */
DMU_PARTIAL_MORE = 1 << 8, /* Following partial access. */
DMU_KEEP_CACHING = 1 << 9, /* Don't affect caching. */
DMU_IS_PREFETCH = 1 << 10, /* This read is a prefetch. */
} dmu_flags_t;
/*