The ARC caches data in scatter ABD's, which are collections of pages,
which are typically 4K. Therefore, the space used to cache each block
is rounded up to a multiple of 4K. The ABD subsystem tracks this wasted
memory in the `scatter_chunk_waste` kstat. However, the ARC's `size` is
not aware of the memory used by this round-up, it only accounts for the
size that it requested from the ABD subsystem.
Therefore, the ARC is effectively using more memory than it is aware of,
due to the `scatter_chunk_waste`. This impacts observability, e.g.
`arcstat` will show that the ARC is using less memory than it
effectively is. It also impacts how the ARC responds to memory
pressure. As the amount of `scatter_chunk_waste` changes, it appears to
the ARC as memory pressure, so it needs to resize `arc_c`.
If the sector size (`1<<ashift`) is the same as the page size (or
larger), there won't be any waste. If the (compressed) block size is
relatively large compared to the page size, the amount of
`scatter_chunk_waste` will be small, so the problematic effects are
minimal.
However, if using 512B sectors (`ashift=9`), and the (compressed) block
size is small (e.g. `compression=on` with the default `volblocksize=8k`
or a decreased `recordsize`), the amount of `scatter_chunk_waste` can be
very large. On a production system, with `arc_size` at a constant 50%
of memory, `scatter_chunk_waste` has been been observed to be 10-30% of
memory.
This commit adds `scatter_chunk_waste` to `arc_size`, and adds a new
`waste` field to `arcstat`. As a result, the ARC's memory usage is more
observable, and `arc_c` does not need to be adjusted as frequently.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: George Wilson <gwilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Closes#10701
Apparently missed in the initial port integration was
the need to reap the abd_chunk_cache on FreeBSD. This
change addresses that oversight.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>
Closes#10474
For MIPS architectures on Linux the ZERO_PAGE macro references
empty_zero_page, which is exported as a GPL symbol. The call to
ZERO_PAGE in abd_alloc_zero_scatter has been removed and a single
zero'd page is now allocated for each of the pages in abd_zero_scatter
in the kernel ABD code path.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Closes#10428
Adding the gang ABD type, which allows for linear and scatter ABDs to
be chained together into a single ABD.
This can be used to avoid doing memory copies to/from ABDs. An example
of this can be found in vdev_queue.c in the vdev_queue_aggregate()
function.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Brian <bwa@clemson.edu>
Co-authored-by: Mark Maybee <mmaybee@cray.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Closes#10069
Commit fc551d7 introduced the wrappers abd_enter_critical() and
abd_exit_critical() to mark critical sections. On Linux these are
implemented with the local_irq_save() and local_irq_restore() macros
which set the 'flags' argument when saving. By wrapping them with
a function the local variable is no longer set by the macro and is
no longer properly restored.
Convert abd_enter_critical() and abd_exit_critical() to macros to
resolve this issue and ensure the flags are properly restored.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#10332
Reorganizing ABD code base so OS-independent ABD code has been placed
into a common abd.c file. OS-dependent ABD code has been left in each
OS's ABD source files, and these source files have been renamed to
abd_os.
The OS-independent ABD code is now under:
module/zfs/abd.c
With the OS-dependent code in:
module/os/linux/zfs/abd_os.c
module/os/freebsd/zfs/abd_os.c
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Closes#10293
