6 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Prakash Surya	624227854e	Disable arc_p adapt dampener by default ... It's unclear why adjustments to arc_p need to be dampened as they are in arc_adjust. With that said, it's removal significantly improves the arc's ability to "warm up" to a given workload. Thus, I'm disabling by default until its usefulness is better understood. Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Issue #2110	2014-02-21 16:10:49 -08:00
Prakash Surya	f521ce1b9c	Allow "arc_p" to drop to zero or grow to "arc_c" ... Setting a limit on the minimum value of "arc_p" has been shown to have detrimental effects on the arc hit rate for certain "metadata" intensive workloads. Specifically, this has been exhibited with a workload that constantly dirties new "metadata" but also frequently touches a "small" amount of mfu data (e.g. mkdir's). What is seen is that the new anon data throttles the mfu list to a negligible size (because arc_p > anon + mru in arc_get_data_buf), even though the mfu ghost list receives a constant stream of hits. To remedy this, arc_p is now allowed to drop to zero if the algorithm deems it necessary. Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Issue #2110	2014-02-21 16:10:27 -08:00
Prakash Surya	89c8cac493	Disable aggressive arc_p growth by default ... For specific workloads consisting mainly of mfu data and new anon data buffers, the aggressive growth of arc_p found in the arc_get_data_buf() function can have detrimental effects on the mfu list size and ghost list hit rate. Running a workload consisting of two processes: * Process 1 is creating many small files * Process 2 is tar'ing a directory consisting of many small files I've seen arc_p and the mru grow to their maximum size, while the mru ghost list receives 100K times fewer hits than the mfu ghost list. Ideally, as the mfu ghost list receives hits, arc_p should be driven down and the size of the mfu should increase. Given the specific workload I was testing with, the mfu list size should grow to a point where almost no mfu ghost list hits would occur. Unfortunately, this does not happen because the newly dirtied anon buffers constancy drive arc_p to its maximum value and keep it there (effectively prioritizing the mru list and starving the mfu list down to a negligible size). The logic to increment arc_p from within the arc_get_data_buf() function was introduced many years ago in this upstream commit: commit 641fbdae3a027d12b3c3dcd18927ccafae6d58bc Author: maybee <none@none> Date: Wed Dec 20 15:46:12 2006 -0800 6505658 target MRU size (arc.p) needs to be adjusted more aggressively and since I don't fully understand the motivation for the change, I am reluctant to completely remove it. As a way to test out how it's removal might affect performance, I've disabled that code by default, but left it tunable via a module option. Thus, if its removal is found to be grossly detrimental for certain workloads, it can be re-enabled on the fly, without a code change. Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Issue #2110	2014-02-21 14:53:28 -08:00
Turbo Fredriksson	fd8febbd1e	Add zfs_send_corrupt_data module option ... Tuning setting to ignore read/checksum errors when sending data. Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes #1982 Issue #1897	2013-12-18 16:46:35 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens	e8b96c6007	Illumos #4045 write throttle & i/o scheduler performance work ... 4045 zfs write throttle & i/o scheduler performance work 1. The ZFS i/o scheduler (vdev_queue.c) now divides i/os into 5 classes: sync read, sync write, async read, async write, and scrub/resilver. The scheduler issues a number of concurrent i/os from each class to the device. Once a class has been selected, an i/o is selected from this class using either an elevator algorithem (async, scrub classes) or FIFO (sync classes). The number of concurrent async write i/os is tuned dynamically based on i/o load, to achieve good sync i/o latency when there is not a high load of writes, and good write throughput when there is. See the block comment in vdev_queue.c (reproduced below) for more details. 2. The write throttle (dsl_pool_tempreserve_space() and txg_constrain_throughput()) is rewritten to produce much more consistent delays when under constant load. The new write throttle is based on the amount of dirty data, rather than guesses about future performance of the system. When there is a lot of dirty data, each transaction (e.g. write() syscall) will be delayed by the same small amount. This eliminates the "brick wall of wait" that the old write throttle could hit, causing all transactions to wait several seconds until the next txg opens. One of the keys to the new write throttle is decrementing the amount of dirty data as i/o completes, rather than at the end of spa_sync(). Note that the write throttle is only applied once the i/o scheduler is issuing the maximum number of outstanding async writes. See the block comments in dsl_pool.c and above dmu_tx_delay() (reproduced below) for more details. This diff has several other effects, including: * the commonly-tuned global variable zfs_vdev_max_pending has been removed; use per-class zfs_vdev_*_max_active values or zfs_vdev_max_active instead. * the size of each txg (meaning the amount of dirty data written, and thus the time it takes to write out) is now controlled differently. There is no longer an explicit time goal; the primary determinant is amount of dirty data. Systems that are under light or medium load will now often see that a txg is always syncing, but the impact to performance (e.g. read latency) is minimal. Tune zfs_dirty_data_max and zfs_dirty_data_sync to control this. * zio_taskq_batch_pct = 75 -- Only use 75% of all CPUs for compression, checksum, etc. This improves latency by not allowing these CPU-intensive tasks to consume all CPU (on machines with at least 4 CPU's; the percentage is rounded up). --matt APPENDIX: problems with the current i/o scheduler The current ZFS i/o scheduler (vdev_queue.c) is deadline based. The problem with this is that if there are always i/os pending, then certain classes of i/os can see very long delays. For example, if there are always synchronous reads outstanding, then no async writes will be serviced until they become "past due". One symptom of this situation is that each pass of the txg sync takes at least several seconds (typically 3 seconds). If many i/os become "past due" (their deadline is in the past), then we must service all of these overdue i/os before any new i/os. This happens when we enqueue a batch of async writes for the txg sync, with deadlines 2.5 seconds in the future. If we can't complete all the i/os in 2.5 seconds (e.g. because there were always reads pending), then these i/os will become past due. Now we must service all the "async" writes (which could be hundreds of megabytes) before we service any reads, introducing considerable latency to synchronous i/os (reads or ZIL writes). Notes on porting to ZFS on Linux: - zio_t gained new members io_physdone and io_phys_children. Because object caches in the Linux port call the constructor only once at allocation time, objects may contain residual data when retrieved from the cache. Therefore zio_create() was updated to zero out the two new fields. - vdev_mirror_pending() relied on the depth of the per-vdev pending queue (vq->vq_pending_tree) to select the least-busy leaf vdev to read from. This tree has been replaced by vq->vq_active_tree which is now used for the same purpose. - vdev_queue_init() used the value of zfs_vdev_max_pending to determine the number of vdev I/O buffers to pre-allocate. That global no longer exists, so we instead use the sum of the *_max_active values for each of the five I/O classes described above. - The Illumos implementation of dmu_tx_delay() delays a transaction by sleeping in condition variable embedded in the thread (curthread->t_delay_cv). We do not have an equivalent CV to use in Linux, so this change replaced the delay logic with a wrapper called zfs_sleep_until(). This wrapper could be adopted upstream and in other downstream ports to abstract away operating system-specific delay logic. - These tunables are added as module parameters, and descriptions added to the zfs-module-parameters.5 man page. spa_asize_inflation zfs_deadman_synctime_ms zfs_vdev_max_active zfs_vdev_async_write_active_min_dirty_percent zfs_vdev_async_write_active_max_dirty_percent zfs_vdev_async_read_max_active zfs_vdev_async_read_min_active zfs_vdev_async_write_max_active zfs_vdev_async_write_min_active zfs_vdev_scrub_max_active zfs_vdev_scrub_min_active zfs_vdev_sync_read_max_active zfs_vdev_sync_read_min_active zfs_vdev_sync_write_max_active zfs_vdev_sync_write_min_active zfs_dirty_data_max_percent zfs_delay_min_dirty_percent zfs_dirty_data_max_max_percent zfs_dirty_data_max zfs_dirty_data_max_max zfs_dirty_data_sync zfs_delay_scale The latter four have type unsigned long, whereas they are uint64_t in Illumos. This accommodates Linux's module_param() supported types, but means they may overflow on 32-bit architectures. The values zfs_dirty_data_max and zfs_dirty_data_max_max are the most likely to overflow on 32-bit systems, since they express physical RAM sizes in bytes. In fact, Illumos initializes zfs_dirty_data_max_max to 2^32 which does overflow. To resolve that, this port instead initializes it in arc_init() to 25% of physical RAM, and adds the tunable zfs_dirty_data_max_max_percent to override that percentage. While this solution doesn't completely avoid the overflow issue, it should be a reasonable default for most systems, and the minority of affected systems can work around the issue by overriding the defaults. - Fixed reversed logic in comment above zfs_delay_scale declaration. - Clarified comments in vdev_queue.c regarding when per-queue minimums take effect. - Replaced dmu_tx_write_limit in the dmu_tx kstat file with dmu_tx_dirty_delay and dmu_tx_dirty_over_max. The first counts how many times a transaction has been delayed because the pool dirty data has exceeded zfs_delay_min_dirty_percent. The latter counts how many times the pool dirty data has exceeded zfs_dirty_data_max (which we expect to never happen). - The original patch would have regressed the bug fixed in zfsonlinux/zfs@c418410, which prevented users from setting the zfs_vdev_aggregation_limit tuning larger than SPA_MAXBLOCKSIZE. A similar fix is added to vdev_queue_aggregate(). - In vdev_queue_io_to_issue(), dynamically allocate 'zio_t search' on the heap instead of the stack. In Linux we can't afford such large structures on the stack. Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com> Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com> Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com> Reviewed by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov> Reviewed by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.gregg@joyent.com> Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com> References: http://www.illumos.org/issues/4045 illumos/illumos-gate@69962b5647 Ported-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes #1913	2013-12-06 09:32:43 -08:00
Turbo Fredriksson	29714574fa	Document ZFS module parameters. ... This is a first draft of a zfs-module-parameters(5) man page. I have just extracted the parameter name and its description with modinfo, then checked the source what type it is and its default value. This will need more work, preferably someone that actually know these values and what to use them for. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes #1856	2013-11-20 16:00:33 -08:00