objsetid is not unique across pool, so using it solely as key would cause
panic when automounting two snapshot on different pools with the same
objsetid. We fix this by adding spa pointer as additional key.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Issue #3948
Issue #3786
Issue #3887
The ->journal_info pointer in the task_struct is reserved for use by
filesystems and because the kernel can have multiple file systems on the
same stack due to direct reclaim, each filesystem that touches
->journal_info in a callback function will save the value at the start
of its frame and restore it at the end of its frame. This allows us to
safely use ->journal_info to store a pointer to the taskq's struct in
taskq threads so that ZFS code paths can detect the presence of a taskq.
This could break if the ZFS code were to use taskq_member from the
context of direct reclaim. However, there are no such uses of it in that
manner, so this is safe.
This eliminates an O(N) list traversal under a spinlock with an O(1)
unlocked pointer comparison.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: tuxoko <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes#500
While stack size will vary by architecture it has historically defaulted to
8K on x86_64 systems. However, as of Linux 3.15 the default thread stack
size was increased to 16K. These kernels are now the default in most non-
enterprise distributions which means we no longer need to assume 8K stacks.
This patch takes advantage of that fact by appropriately reverting stack
conservation changes which were made to ensure stability. Changes which
may have had a negative impact on performance for certain workloads. This
also has the side effect of bringing the code slightly more in line with
upstream.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Closes#4059
Provide a generic interface to prefetch ZAP entries by name. This
functionality is being added for external consumers such as Lustre.
It is based of the existing zap_prefetch_uint64() version which is
used by the deduplication code.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Closes#4061
If a vnode is released asynchronously through areleasef(), it is
possible for the user process to reuse the file descriptor before
areleasef is called. When this happens, getf() will return a stale
reference, any operations in the kernel on that file descriptor will
fail (as it is closed) and the operations meant for that fd will
never occur from userspace's perspective.
We correct this by detecting this condition in getf(), doing a putf
on the old file handle, updating the file descriptor and proceeding
as if everything was fine. When the areleasef() is done, it will
harmlessly decrement the reference counter on the Illumos file handle.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#492
This was originally in fe0ed8f910, but somehow
was changed and not working anymore. And it will cause the following error:
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:506 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/4.2.0-18-generic/modules.builtin.bin'
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#4027
This was originally in e80cd06b8e, but somehow
was changed and not working anymore. And it will cause the following error:
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:506 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/4.2.0-18-generic/modules.builtin.bin'
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#501
This is needed for architectures that do not have a builtin prefetchw()
Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#502
The xattr_hander->{list,get,set} were changed to take a xattr_handler,
and handler_flags argument was removed and should be accessed by
handler->flags.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #4021
As part of block polling support in Linux 4.4, make_request_fn should
return a cookie value of type blk_qc_t. For now, we make zvol_request
always return BLK_QC_T_NONE until we assess whether and how we want
to support block polling.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #4021
On 32 bit, the calculation of zfs_dirty_data_max from phymem will overflow,
causing it to be smaller than zfs_dirty_data_sync, and will cause txg being
delayed while no one write to disk. The end result is horrendous write speed.
On 4G ram 32-bit VM, before this patch, simple dd results in ~7MB/s. Now it
can reach speed on par with 64-bit VM.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#3973
On 32 bit system, zio_buf_cache is limit to 1M. Larger than that is all NULL.
So we need to avoid reaping them.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3973
When concurrent threads accessing the snapdir, one will succeed the user
helper mount while others will get EBUSY. However, the original code treats
those EBUSY threads as success and goes on to do zfsctl_snapshot_add, which
causes repeated avl_add and thus panic.
Also, if the snapshot is already mounted somewhere else, a thread accessing
the snapdir will also get EBUSY from user helper mount. And it will cause
strange things as doing follow_down_one will fail and then follow_up will jump
up to the mountpoint of the filesystem and confuse the hell out of VFS.
The patch fix both behavior by returning 0 immediately for the EBUSY threads.
Note, this will have a side effect for the second case where the VFS will
retry several times before returning ELOOP.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#4018
Because errors during module load are so rare it went unnoticed that
it was possible that a positive errno was returned. This would result
in the module being loaded, nothing being initialized, and a system
panic shortly thereafter. This is what was causing the hard failures
in the automated testing.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Limit the maximum object size to 1/128 of total system memory for
the kmem cache tests. Large values can result in out of memory errors
for systems with less the 512M of memory. Additionally, use the
known number of objects per-slab for calculating the number of
objects to use for a test.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
When decreasing the maximum ARC size preserve the 3/4 default
ratio for the arc_meta_limit. Otherwise, the arc_meta_limit
may be set the same as arc_max.
Signed-off-by: AndCycle <andcycle@andcycle.idv.tw>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#4001
Currently taskq_dispatch() will spawn new task with a condition that the caller
is also a member of the taskq. However, under this condition, it will still
cause deadlock where a task on tq1 is waiting another thread, who is trying to
dispatch a task on tq1. So this patch removes the check.
For example when you do:
zfs send pp/fs0@001 | zfs recv pp/fs0_copy
This will easily deadlock before this patch.
Also, move the seq_task check from taskq_thread_spawn() to taskq_thread()
because it's not used by the caller from taskq_dispatch().
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#496
Linux slab will automatically free empty slab when number of partial slab is
over min_partial, so we don't need to explicitly shrink it. In fact, calling
kmem_cache_shrink from shrinker will cause heavy contention on
kmem_cache_node->list_lock, to the point that it might cause __slab_free to
livelock (see zfsonlinux/zfs#3936)
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closeszfsonlinux/zfs#3936Closes#487
When sa_bulk_lookup() fails, unlock_new_inode() will spit out a WARNING. It
will also recursive deadlock on ZFS_OBJ_HOLD_ENTER in zfs_zinactive().
Since we never call insert_inode_locked in fail path, I_NEW is never set, the
inode is never hashed. So unlock_new_inode() can be safely remove it.
We set z_sa_hdl to NULL in fail path so that iput path will stop at
zfs_inactive() without entering zfs_zinactive(). This way we can avoid the
deadlock and prevent double sa_handle_destroy().
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3899
Currently, vdev_disk_physio_completion will try to wake up an waiter without
first checking the existence. This creates a race window in which complete is
called after dr is freed.
We add dr_wait in dio_request to indicate the existence of waiter. Also,
remove dr_rw since no one is using it, and reorder dr_ref to make the struct
more compact in 64bit.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3917
Issue #3880
Allocate a kmem cache magazine for every possible CPU which might
be added to the system. This ensures that when one of these CPUs
is enabled it can be safely used immediately.
For many systems the number of online CPUs is identical to the
number of present CPUs so this does imply an increased memory
footprint. In fact, dynamically allocating the array of magazine
pointers instead of using the worst case NR_CPUS can end up
decreasing our memory footprint.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Closes#482
Strictly enforce keeping 'arc_c >= arc_c_min'. The ASSERTs are
left in place to catch this in a debug build but logic has been
added to gracefully handle in a production build.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3904
We should never block when holding a spin lock, but zfs_inode_update can
block in the critical section of a spin lock in zfs_inode_update:
zfs_inode_update -> dmu_object_size_from_db -> zrl_add -> mutex_enter
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3858
All users of zv_lock were removed by 37f9dac, but we forgot to remove
it. Lets remove it as clean up.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3858
When doing uioskip to skip an iovec to the very end, the current loop
condition will falsely check pass the end of iovec. We fix this checking
uio_iovcnt first.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#3806Closes#3850
Support grsecurity/PaX kernel configurations where
CONFIG_PAX_USERCOPY_SLABS are enabled. When this kernel option
is enabled slabs which are used to copy between user and kernel
space must be created with SLAB_USERCOPY.
Stock Linux kernels do not have a SLAB_USERCOPY definition so
this causes no change in behavior for non-PAX-enabled kernels.
Verified-by: Wuffleton <null@wuffleton.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #2977
Issue #3796
Userspace can trigger an assertion by passing a zero-length segment
when assertions are enabled:
[27961.614792] VERIFY3(skip < iov->iov_len) failed (0 < 0)
[27961.614795] PANIC at zfs_uio.c:187:uio_prefaultpages()
[27961.614805] Call Trace:
[27961.614811] dump_stack+0x45/0x57
[27961.614830] spl_dumpstack+0x44/0x50 [spl]
[27961.614834] spl_panic+0xbb/0x100 [spl]
[27961.614908] uio_prefaultpages+0x134/0x140 [zcommon]
[27961.614930] zfs_write+0x1fd/0xe80 [zfs]
[27961.615014] zpl_write_common_iovec+0x7f/0x110 [zfs]
[27961.615035] zpl_iter_write+0xa0/0xd0 [zfs]
[27961.615037] do_iter_readv_writev+0x59/0x80
[27961.615063] do_readv_writev+0x11b/0x260
[27961.615098] vfs_writev+0x39/0x50
[27961.615100] SyS_writev+0x4a/0xe0
[27961.615103] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x6e
The solution is to delete the assertion. This could potentially
occur in uiomove as well, which contains analogous assertions
that appear similarly unnecessary, so we remove those as well.
Reported-by: Jonathan Vasquez <jvasquez1011@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Issue #3792
Commit b39c22b set the READ_SYNC and WRITE_SYNC flags for a bio
based on the ZIO_PRIORITY_* flag passed in. This had the unnoticed
side-effect of making the vdev_disk_io_start() synchronous for
certain I/Os.
This in turn resulted in vdev_disk_io_start() being able to
re-dispatch zio's which would result in a RCU stalls when a disk
was removed from the system. Additionally, this could negatively
impact performance and explains the performance regressions reported
in both #3829 and #3780.
This patch resolves the issue by making the blocking behavior
dependent on a 'wait' flag being passed rather than overloading
the passed bio flags.
Finally, the WRITE_SYNC and READ_SYNC behavior is restricted to
non-rotational devices where there is no benefit to queuing to
aggregate the I/O.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3652
Issue #3780
Issue #3785
Issue #3817
Issue #3821
Issue #3829
Issue #3832
Issue #3870
As described in the comment above arc_reclaim_thread() it's critical
that the reclaim thread be careful about blocking. Just like it must
never wait on a hash lock, it must never wait on a task which can in
turn wait on the CV in arc_get_data_buf(). This will deadlock, see
issue #3822 for full backtraces showing the problem.
To resolve this issue arc_kmem_reap_now() has been updated to use the
asynchronous arc prune function. This means that arc_prune_async()
may now be called while there are still outstanding arc_prune_tasks.
However, this isn't a problem because arc_prune_async() already
keeps a reference count preventing multiple outstanding tasks per
registered consumer. Functionally, this behavior is the same as
the counterpart illumos function dnlc_reduce_cache().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issue #3808
Issue #3834
Issue #3822
The zpl_nr_cached_objects() function has been disabled because in the
current code it doesn't provide any critical functionality and it may
result in a deadlock under certain circumstances. However, because
we expect to need these hooks in the future this code has not been
entirely removed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3719
Accessing a snapshot via NFS should cause an auto-unmount of that
snapshot to be deferred until such as time as the snapshot is idle.
This is analogous to the zpl_revalidate logic employed by locally
mounted snapshots.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3794
Commit torvalds/linux@4246a0b63b
("block: add a bi_error field to struct bio") dropped the error
argument from bio_endio in favor of newly introduced bio->bi_error.
This also replaces bio->bi_flags value BIO_UPTODATE.
bio_endio was a 3 argument function until Linux 2.6.24, which made it
a 2 argument function, and now the prototype has changed yet again to
a 1 argument function. Support for pre 2.6.24 kernels was already
dropped with 37f9dac592 ("zvol processing should use struct bio")
which assumed the 2 argument version in zvol_request(). Remaining code
to support the 3 argument version is hereby removed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Issue #3799
As part of the large block support effort, it makes sense to add
support for large blocks to **zpios(1)**. The specifying of a zfs
block size for zpios is optional and will default to 128K if the
block size is not specified.
`zpios ... -S size | --blocksize size ...`
This will use *size* ZFS blocks for each test, specified as a comma
delimited list with an optional unit suffix. The supported range is
powers of two from 128K through 16M. A range of block sizes can be
tested as follows: `-S 128K,256K,512K,1M`
Example run below
(non realistic results from a VM and output abbreviated for space)
```
--regioncount=750 --regionsize=8M --chunksize=1M --offset=4K
--threaddelay=0 --cleanup --human-readable --verbose --cleanup
--blocksize=128K,256K,512K,1M
th-cnt rg-cnt rg-sz ch-sz blksz wr-data wr-bw rd-data rd-bw
---------------------------------------------------------------------
4 750 8m 1m 128k 5g 90.06m 5g 93.37m
4 750 8m 1m 256k 5g 79.71m 5g 99.81m
4 750 8m 1m 512k 5g 42.20m 5g 93.14m
4 750 8m 1m 1m 5g 35.51m 5g 89.36m
8 750 8m 1m 128k 5g 85.49m 5g 90.81m
8 750 8m 1m 256k 5g 61.42m 5g 99.24m
8 750 8m 1m 512k 5g 49.09m 5g 108.78m
16 750 8m 1m 128k 5g 86.28m 5g 88.73m
16 750 8m 1m 256k 5g 64.34m 5g 93.47m
16 750 8m 1m 512k 5g 68.84m 5g 124.47m
16 750 8m 1m 1m 5g 53.97m 5g 97.20m
---------------------------------------------------------------------
```
Signed-off-by: Don Brady <don.brady@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#3795Closes#2071
ZFS incorrectly uses directory-based extended attributes even when
xattr=sa is specified as a dataset property or mount option. Support to
honor temporary mount options including "xattr" was added in commit
0282c4137e. There are two issues with the
mount option handling:
* Libzfs has historically included "xattr" in its list of default mount
options. This overrides the dataset property, so the dataset is always
configured to use directory-based xattrs even when the xattr dataset
property is set to off or sa. Address this by removing "xattr" from
the set of default mount options in libzfs.
* There was no way to enable system attribute-based extended attributes
using temporary mount options. Add the mount options "saxattr" and
"dirxattr" which enable the xattr behavior their names suggest. This
approach has the advantages of mirroring the valid xattr dataset
property values and following existing conventions for mount option
names.
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#3787
Passing NULL for the mount data should not result in EINVAL. It
should be treated as if an empty string were passed and succeed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Closes#3771
37f9dac592 replaced the end-start
calculation with a cached value, but neglected to update it on discard
operations. This can cause us to discard data not requested, causing
data loss on zvols.
Reported-by: Richard Connon <richard.connon@zynstra.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#3798
When adding a zvol to the system prefetch zvol_prefetch_bytes from the
start and end of the volume. Prefetching these regions of the volume is
desirable because they are likely to be accessed immediately by blkid(8),
the kernel scanning for a partition table, or another task which probes
the devices.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #3659
Illumos does not have direct reclaim and code run inside taskq worker
threads is not designed to deal with it. Allowing direct reclaim inside
a worker thread can therefore deadlock. We set PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO through
memalloc_noio_save() to indicate to the kernel's reclaim code that we
are inside a context where memory allocations cannot be allowed to block
on filesystem activity.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#1274
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#2390Closes#474
zfsonlinux/zfs@e20cd6f7a8 caused us to
lose IO accounting on zvols. When I originally wrote that last year, the
symbols we needed to maintain IO accounting were GPL exported, but
torvalds/linux@394ffa503b provided
suitable symbols for restoring this functionality 4 months later. We
can call them to restore the IO accounting on Linux 3.19 and later as
well as any older kernels where that patch is backported.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#3741
Internally ZFS keeps a small log to facilitate debugging. By default
the log is disabled, to enable it set zfs_dbgmsg_enable=1. The contents
of the log can be accessed by reading the /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dbgmsg file.
Writing 0 to this proc file clears the log.
$ echo 1 >/sys/module/zfs/parameters/zfs_dbgmsg_enable
$ echo 0 >/proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dbgmsg
$ zpool import tank
$ cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dbgmsg
1 0 0x01 -1 0 2492357525542 2525836565501
timestamp message
1441141408 spa=tank async request task=1
1441141408 txg 70 open pool version 5000; software version 5000/5; ...
1441141409 spa=tank async request task=32
1441141409 txg 72 import pool version 5000; software version 5000/5; ...
1441141414 command: lt-zpool import tank
Note the zfs_dbgmsg() and dprintf() functions are both now mapped to
the same log. As mentioned above the kernel debug log can be accessed
though the /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dbgmsg kstat. For user space consumers
log messages are immediately written to stdout after applying the
ZFS_DEBUG environment variable.
$ ZFS_DEBUG=on ./cmd/ztest/ztest -V
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Closes#3728
This patch is based on the previous work done by @andrey-ve and
@yshui. It triggers the automount by using kern_path() to traverse
to the known snapshout mount point. Once the snapshot is mounted
NFS can access the contents of the snapshot.
Allowing NFS clients to access to the .zfs/snapshot directory would
normally mean that a root user on a client mounting an export with
'no_root_squash' would be able to use mkdir/rmdir/mv to manipulate
snapshots on the server. To prevent configuration mistakes a
zfs_admin_snapshot module option was added which disables the
mkdir/rmdir/mv functionally. System administators desiring this
functionally must explicitly enable it.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#2797Closes#1655Closes#616
Prevents NFS client from detection of different fileids of snapshot root dentry
before & after snapshot mount.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vesnovaty <andrey.vesnovaty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Linux 2.6.36 introduced REQ_SECURE to indicate when discards *must* be
processed, such that we cannot do optimizations like block alignment.
Consequently, the discard semantics prior to 2.6.36 require us to always
process unaligned discards. Previously, we would do this optimization
regardless. This patch changes things to correctly restrict this
optimization to situations where REQ_SECURE exists, but is not included
in the flags.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Internally, zvols are files exposed through the block device API. This
is intended to reduce overhead when things require block devices.
However, the ZoL zvol code emulates a traditional block device in that
it has a top half and a bottom half. This is an unnecessary source of
overhead that does not exist on any other OpenZFS platform does this.
This patch removes it. Early users of this patch reported double digit
performance gains in IOPS on zvols in the range of 50% to 80%.
Comments in the code suggest that the current implementation was done to
obtain IO merging from Linux's IO elevator. However, the DMU already
does write merging while arc_read() should implicitly merge read IOs
because only 1 thread is permitted to fetch the buffer into ARC. In
addition, commercial ZFSOnLinux distributions report that regular files
are more performant than zvols under the current implementation, and the
main consumers of zvols are VMs and iSCSI targets, which have their own
elevators to merge IOs.
Some minor refactoring allows us to register zfs_request() as our
->make_request() handler in place of the generic_make_request()
function. This eliminates the layer of code that broke IO requests on
zvols into a top half and a bottom half. This has several benefits:
1. No per zvol spinlocks.
2. No redundant IO elevator processing.
3. Interrupts are disabled only when actually necessary.
4. No redispatching of IOs when all taskq threads are busy.
5. Linux's page out routines will properly block.
6. Many autotools checks become obsolete.
An unfortunate consequence of eliminating the layer that
generic_make_request() is that we no longer calls the instrumentation
hooks for block IO accounting. Those hooks are GPL-exported, so we
cannot call them ourselves and consequently, we lose the ability to do
IO monitoring via iostat. Since zvols are internally files mapped as
block devices, this should be okay. Anyone who is willing to accept the
performance penalty for the block IO layer's accounting could use the
loop device in between the zvol and its consumer. Alternatively, perf
and ftrace likely could be used. Also, tools like latencytop will still
work. Tools such as latencytop sometimes provide a better view of
performance bottlenecks than the traditional block IO accounting tools
do.
Lastly, if direct reclaim occurs during spacemap loading and swap is on
a zvol, this code will deadlock. That deadlock could already occur with
sync=always on zvols. Given that swap on zvols is not yet production
ready, this is not a blocker.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Chunwei Chen