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Olaf Faaland
379ca9cf2b Multi-modifier protection (MMP)
Add multihost=on|off pool property to control MMP.  When enabled
a new thread writes uberblocks to the last slot in each label, at a
set frequency, to indicate to other hosts the pool is actively imported.
These uberblocks are the last synced uberblock with an updated
timestamp.  Property defaults to off.

During tryimport, find the "best" uberblock (newest txg and timestamp)
repeatedly, checking for change in the found uberblock.  Include the
results of the activity test in the config returned by tryimport.
These results are reported to user in "zpool import".

Allow the user to control the period between MMP writes, and the
duration of the activity test on import, via a new module parameter
zfs_multihost_interval.  The period is specified in milliseconds.  The
activity test duration is calculated from this value, and from the
mmp_delay in the "best" uberblock found initially.

Add a kstat interface to export statistics about Multiple Modifier
Protection (MMP) updates. Include the last synced txg number, the
timestamp, the delay since the last MMP update, the VDEV GUID, the VDEV
label that received the last MMP update, and the VDEV path.  Abbreviated
output below.

$ cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/mypool/multihost
31 0 0x01 10 880 105092382393521 105144180101111
txg   timestamp  mmp_delay   vdev_guid   vdev_label vdev_path
20468    261337  250274925   68396651780       3    /dev/sda
20468    261339  252023374   6267402363293     1    /dev/sdc
20468    261340  252000858   6698080955233     1    /dev/sdx
20468    261341  251980635   783892869810      2    /dev/sdy
20468    261342  253385953   8923255792467     3    /dev/sdd
20468    261344  253336622   042125143176      0    /dev/sdab
20468    261345  253310522   1200778101278     2    /dev/sde
20468    261346  253286429   0950576198362     2    /dev/sdt
20468    261347  253261545   96209817917       3    /dev/sds
20468    261349  253238188   8555725937673     3    /dev/sdb

Add a new tunable zfs_multihost_history to specify the number of MMP
updates to store history for. By default it is set to zero meaning that
no MMP statistics are stored.

When using ztest to generate activity, for automated tests of the MMP
function, some test functions interfere with the test.  For example, the
pool is exported to run zdb and then imported again.  Add a new ztest
function, "-M", to alter ztest behavior to prevent this.

Add new tests to verify the new functionality.  Tests provided by
Giuseppe Di Natale.

Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <dinatale2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Olaf Faaland <faaland1@llnl.gov>
Closes #745
Closes #6279
2017-07-13 13:54:00 -04:00
Matthew Ahrens
64fc776208 OpenZFS 7968 - multi-threaded spa_sync()
Reviewed by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Brad Lewis <brad.lewis@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Saso Kiselkov <saso.kiselkov@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Ported-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>

spa_sync() iterates over all the dirty dnodes and processes each of them
by calling dnode_sync(). If there are many dirty dnodes (e.g. because we
created or removed a lot of files), the single thread of spa_sync()
calling dnode_sync() can become a bottleneck. Additionally, if many
dnodes are dirtied concurrently in open context (e.g. due to concurrent
file creation), the os_lock will experience lock contention via
dnode_setdirty().

The solution is to track dirty dnodes on a multilist_t, and for
spa_sync() to use separate threads to process each of the sublists in
the multilist.

OpenZFS-issue: https://www.illumos.org/issues/7968
OpenZFS-commit: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/commit/4a2a54c
Closes #5752
2017-03-20 18:36:00 -07:00
George Melikov
539d33c791 OpenZFS 6569 - large file delete can starve out write ops
Authored by: Alek Pinchuk <alek@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Sanjay Nadkarni <sanjay.nadkarni@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Ported-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Tested-by: kernelOfTruth <kerneloftruth@gmail.com>

OpenZFS-issue: https://www.illumos.org/issues/6569
OpenZFS-commit: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/commit/1bf4b6f2
Closes #5706
2017-01-31 14:44:03 -08:00
Arne Jansen
5e8cd5d17f Illumos 5981 - Deadlock in dmu_objset_find_dp
5981 Deadlock in dmu_objset_find_dp
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/5981
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/1d3f896

Ported-by: kernelOfTruth kerneloftruth@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3553
2015-07-06 09:31:35 -07:00
Arne Jansen
9c43027b3f Illumos 5269 - zpool import slow
5269 zpool import slow
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/5269
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/12380e1e

Ported-by: DHE <git@dehacked.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #3396
2015-06-09 13:48:02 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
fbeddd60b7 Illumos 4390 - I/O errors can corrupt space map when deleting fs/vol
4390 i/o errors when deleting filesystem/zvol can lead to space map corruption
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Reviewed by: Saso Kiselkov <saso.kiselkov@nexenta.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4390
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/7fd05ac

Porting notes:

Previous stack-reduction efforts in traverse_visitb() caused a fair
number of un-mergable pieces of code.  This patch should reduce its
stack footprint a bit more.

The new local bptree_entry_phys_t in bptree_add() is dynamically-allocated
using kmem_zalloc() for the purpose of stack reduction.

The new global zfs_free_leak_on_eio has been defined as an integer
rather than a boolean_t as was the case with the related zfs_recover
global.  Also, zfs_free_leak_on_eio's definition has been inserted into
zfs_debug.c for consistency with the existing definition of zfs_recover.
Illumos placed it in spa_misc.c.

Ported by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2545
2014-08-04 11:50:52 -07:00
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
Will Andrews
d3cc8b152e Illumos #3742
3742 zfs comments need cleaner, more consistent style
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
Approved by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3742
  illumos/illumos-gate@f717074149

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775

Porting notes:

1. The change to zfs_vfsops.c was dropped because it involves
   zfs_mount_label_policy, which does not exist in the Linux port.
2013-11-04 10:55:25 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
76463d4026 Revert "Add txgs-<pool> kstat file"
This reverts commit e95853a331.
2013-10-25 13:57:25 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
98ab38d109 Revert "Add new kstat for monitoring time in dmu_tx_assign"
This reverts commit 92334b14ec.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-10-25 13:57:25 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
13fe019870 Illumos #3464
3464 zfs synctask code needs restructuring
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3464
  illumos/illumos-gate@3b2aab1880

Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1495
2013-09-04 16:01:24 -07:00
Prakash Surya
92334b14ec Add new kstat for monitoring time in dmu_tx_assign
This change adds a new kstat to gain some visibility into the amount of
time spent in each call to dmu_tx_assign. A histogram is exported via
a new dmu_tx_assign_histogram-$POOLNAME file. The information contained
in this histogram is the frequency dmu_tx_assign took to complete given
an interval range. For example, given the below histogram file:

    $ cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dmu_tx_assign_histogram-tank
    12 1 0x01 32 1536 19792068076691 20516481514522
    name                            type data
    1 us                            4    859
    2 us                            4    252
    4 us                            4    171
    8 us                            4    2
    16 us                           4    0
    32 us                           4    2
    64 us                           4    0
    128 us                          4    0
    256 us                          4    0
    512 us                          4    0
    1024 us                         4    0
    2048 us                         4    0
    4096 us                         4    0
    8192 us                         4    0
    16384 us                        4    0
    32768 us                        4    1
    65536 us                        4    1
    131072 us                       4    1
    262144 us                       4    4
    524288 us                       4    0
    1048576 us                      4    0
    2097152 us                      4    0
    4194304 us                      4    0
    8388608 us                      4    0
    16777216 us                     4    0
    33554432 us                     4    0
    67108864 us                     4    0
    134217728 us                    4    0
    268435456 us                    4    0
    536870912 us                    4    0
    1073741824 us                   4    0
    2147483648 us                   4    0

one can see most calls to dmu_tx_assign completed in 32us or less, but a
few outliers did not. Specifically, 4 of the calls took between 262144us
and 131072us. This information is difficult, if not impossible, to gather
without this change.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1584
2013-07-11 13:53:44 -07:00
George Wilson
294f68063b Illumos #3498 panic in arc_read()
3498 panic in arc_read(): !refcount_is_zero(&pbuf->b_hdr->b_refcnt)
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@1b912ec710
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3498

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1249
2013-07-02 13:34:31 -07:00
George.Wilson
cc92e9d0c3 3246 ZFS I/O deadman thread
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <matthew.ahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

NOTES: This patch has been reworked from the original in the
following ways to accomidate Linux ZFS implementation

*) Usage of the cyclic interface was replaced by the delayed taskq
   interface.  This avoids the need to implement new compatibility
   code and allows us to rely on the existing taskq implementation.

*) An extern for zfs_txg_synctime_ms was added to sys/dsl_pool.h
   because declaring externs in source files as was done in the
   original patch is just plain wrong.

*) Instead of panicing the system when the deadman triggers a
   zevent describing the blocked vdev and the first pending I/O
   is posted.  If the panic behavior is desired Linux provides
   other generic methods to panic the system when threads are
   observed to hang.

*) For reference, to delay zios by 30 seconds for testing you can
   use zinject as follows: 'zinject -d <vdev> -D30 <pool>'

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@283b84606b
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3246

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1396
2013-05-01 17:05:52 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
753c38392d Illumos #3104: eliminate empty bpobjs
3104 eliminate empty bpobjs
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@f174573681
  illumos changeset: 13782:8f78aae28a63
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3104

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-08 10:35:43 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens
29809a6cba Illumos #3086: unnecessarily setting DS_FLAG_INCONSISTENT on async
3086 unnecessarily setting DS_FLAG_INCONSISTENT on async
destroyed datasets
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <Eric.Schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@ce636f8b38
  illumos changeset: 13776:cd512c80fd75
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3086

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-08 10:35:43 -08:00
Christopher Siden
9ae529ec5d Illumos #2619 and #2747
2619 asynchronous destruction of ZFS file systems
2747 SPA versioning with zfs feature flags
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <gwilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Reviewed by: Dan Kruchinin <dan.kruchinin@gmail.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <Eric.Schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@53089ab7c8
  illumos/illumos-gate@ad135b5d64
  illumos changeset: 13700:2889e2596bd6
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2619
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2747

NOTE: The grub specific changes were not ported.  This change
must be made to the Linux grub packages.

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-08 10:35:35 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
e95853a331 Add txgs-<pool> kstat file
Create a kstat file which contains useful statistics about the
last N txgs processed.  This can be helpful when analyzing pool
performance.  The new KSTAT_TYPE_TXG type was added for this
purpose and it tracks the following statistics per-txg.

  txg          - Unique txg number
  state        - State (O)pen/(Q)uiescing/(S)yncing/(C)ommitted
  birth;       - Creation time
  nread        - Bytes read
  nwritten;    - Bytes written
  reads        - IOPs read
  writes       - IOPs write
  open_time;   - Length in nanoseconds the txg was open
  quiesce_time - Length in nanoseconds the txg was quiescing
  sync_time;   - Length in nanoseconds the txg was syncing

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-11-02 15:45:56 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
3558fd73b5 Prototype/structure update for Linux
I appologize in advance why to many things ended up in this commit.
When it could be seperated in to a whole series of commits teasing
that all apart now would take considerable time and I'm not sure
there's much merrit in it.  As such I'll just summerize the intent
of the changes which are all (or partly) in this commit.  Broadly
the intent is to remove as much Solaris specific code as possible
and replace it with native Linux equivilants.  More specifically:

1) Replace all instances of zfsvfs_t with zfs_sb_t.  While the
type is largely the same calling it private super block data
rather than a zfsvfs is more consistent with how Linux names
this.  While non critical it makes the code easier to read when
your thinking in Linux friendly VFS terms.

2) Replace vnode_t with struct inode.  The Linux VFS doesn't have
the notion of a vnode and there's absolutely no good reason to
create one.  There are in fact several good reasons to remove it.
It just adds overhead on Linux if we were to manage one, it
conplicates the code, and it likely will lead to bugs so there's
a good change it will be out of date.  The code has been updated
to remove all need for this type.

3) Replace all vtype_t's with umode types.  Along with this shift
all uses of types to mode bits.  The Solaris code would pass a
vtype which is redundant with the Linux mode.  Just update all the
code to use the Linux mode macros and remove this redundancy.

4) Remove using of vn_* helpers and replace where needed with
inode helpers.  The big example here is creating iput_aync to
replace vn_rele_async.  Other vn helpers will be addressed as
needed but they should be be emulated.  They are a Solaris VFS'ism
and should simply be replaced with Linux equivilants.

5) Update znode alloc/free code.  Under Linux it's common to
embed the inode specific data with the inode itself.  This removes
the need for an extra memory allocation.  In zfs this information
is called a znode and it now embeds the inode with it.  Allocators
have been updated accordingly.

6) Minimal integration with the vfs flags for setting up the
super block and handling mount options has been added this
code will need to be refined but functionally it's all there.

This will be the first and last of these to large to review commits.
2011-02-10 09:27:21 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
6283f55ea1 Support custom build directories and move includes
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.
2010-09-08 12:38:56 -07:00