ZFS works best when it is notified as soon as possible when a device
failure occurs. This allows it to immediately start any recovery
actions which may be needed. In theory Linux supports a flag which
can be set on bio's called FAILFAST which provides this quick
notification by disabling the retry logic in the lower scsi layers.
That's the theory at least. In practice is turns out that while the
flag exists you oddly have to set it with the BIO_RW_AHEAD flag.
And even when it's set it you may get retries in the low level
drivers decides that's the right behavior, or if you don't get the
right error codes reported to the scsi midlayer.
Unfortunately, without additional kernels patchs there's not much
which can be done to improve this. Basically, this just means that
it may take 2-3 minutes before a ZFS is notified properly that a
device has failed. This can be improved and I suspect I'll be
submitting patches upstream to handle this.
One of the neat tricks an autoconf style project is capable of
is allow configurion/building in a directory other than the
source directory. The major advantage to this is that you can
build the project various different ways while making changes
in a single source tree.
For example, this project is designed to work on various different
Linux distributions each of which work slightly differently. This
means that changes need to verified on each of those supported
distributions perferably before the change is committed to the
public git repo.
Using nfs and custom build directories makes this much easier.
I now have a single source tree in nfs mounted on several different
systems each running a supported distribution. When I make a
change to the source base I suspect may break things I can
concurrently build from the same source on all the systems each
in their own subdirectory.
wget -c http://github.com/downloads/behlendorf/zfs/zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
tar -xzf zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd zfs-x-y-z
------------------------- run concurrently ----------------------
<ubuntu system> <fedora system> <debian system> <rhel6 system>
mkdir ubuntu mkdir fedora mkdir debian mkdir rhel6
cd ubuntu cd fedora cd debian cd rhel6
../configure ../configure ../configure ../configure
make make make make
make check make check make check make check
This change also moves many of the include headers from individual
incude/sys directories under the modules directory in to a single
top level include directory. This has the advantage of making
the build rules cleaner and logically it makes a bit more sense.
Add the initial products from autogen.sh. These products will
be updated incrementally after this point as development occurs.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Minor changes to ztest for this environment. These including
updating ztest to run in the local development tree, as well
as relocating some local variables in this function to the heap.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Add autoconf style build infrastructure to the ZFS tree. This
includes autogen.sh, configure.ac, m4 macros, some scripts/*,
and makefiles for all the core ZFS components.
While ztest does run in user space we run it with the same stack
restrictions it would have in kernel space. This ensures that any
stack related issues which would be hit in the kernel can be caught
and debugged in user space instead.
This patch is a first pass to limit the stack usage of every ztest
function to 1024 bytes. Subsequent updates can further reduce this.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
This is a portability change which removes the dependence of the Solaris
thread library. All locations where Solaris thread API was used before
have been replaced with equivilant Solaris kernel style thread calls.
In user space the kernel style threading API is implemented in term of
the portable pthreads library. This includes all threads, mutexs,
condition variables, reader/writer locks, and taskqs.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The upstream commit cb code had a few bugs:
1) The arguments of the list_move_tail() call in txg_dispatch_callbacks()
were reversed by mistake. This caused the commit callbacks to not be
called at all.
2) ztest had a bug in ztest_dmu_commit_callbacks() where "error" was not
initialized correctly. This seems to have caused the test to always take
the simulated error code path, which made ztest unable to detect whether
commit cbs were being called for transactions that successfuly complete.
3) ztest had another bug in ztest_dmu_commit_callbacks() where the commit
cb threshold was not being compared correctly.
4) The commit cb taskq was using 'max_ncpus * 2' as the maxalloc argument
of taskq_create(), which could have caused unnecessary delays in the txg
sync thread.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Resolve issues uncovered by -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, the default redhat
macro's file adds this option to the cflags. This causes warnings
of the following type designed to keep the developer honest:
warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared
with attribute warn_unused_result
The short term fix is to wrap these calls in VERIFY() to check the
return code. The code was already assusing these would never fail.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Fix non-c90 compliant code, for the most part these changes
simply deal with where a particular variable is declared.
Under c90 it must alway be done at the very start of a block.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
