Previously the primarycache property was handled only in the dbuf
layer. Since the speculative prefetcher is implemented in the ARC,
it had to be disabled for uncacheable buffers.
This change gives the ARC knowledge about uncacheable buffers
via arc_read() and arc_write(). So when remove_reference() drops
the last reference on the ARC header, it can either immediately destroy
it, or if it is marked as prefetch, put it into a new arc_uncached state.
That state is scanned every second, evicting stale buffers that were
not demand read.
This change also tracks dbufs that were read from the beginning,
but not to the end. It is assumed that such buffers may receive further
reads, and so they are stored in dbuf cache. If a following
reads reaches the end of the buffer, it is immediately evicted.
Otherwise it will follow regular dbuf cache eviction. Since the dbuf
layer does not know actual file sizes, this logic is not applied to
the final buffer of a dnode.
Since uncacheable buffers should no longer stay in the ARC for long,
this patch also tries to optimize I/O by allocating ARC physical
buffers as linear to allow buffer sharing.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Closes#14243
ARC code was many times significantly modified over the years, that
created significant amount of tangled and potentially broken code.
This should make arc_access()/arc_read() code some more readable.
- Decouple prefetch status tracking from b_refcnt. It made sense
originally, but became highly cryptic over the years. Move all the
logic into arc_access(). While there, clean up and comment state
transitions in arc_access(). Some transitions were weird IMO.
- Unify arc_access() calls to arc_read() instead of sometimes calling
it from arc_read_done(). To avoid extra state changes and checks add
one more b_refcnt for ARC_FLAG_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
- Reimplement ARC_FLAG_WAIT in case of ARC_FLAG_IO_IN_PROGRESS with
the same callback mechanism to not falsely account them as hits. Count
those as "iohits", an intermediate between "hits" and "misses". While
there, call read callbacks in original request order, that should be
good for fairness and random speculations/allocations/aggregations.
- Introduce additional statistic counters for prefetch, accounting
predictive vs prescient and hits vs iohits vs misses.
- Remove hash_lock argument from functions not needing it.
- Remove ARC_FLAG_PREDICTIVE_PREFETCH, since it should be opposite
to ARC_FLAG_PRESCIENT_PREFETCH if ARC_FLAG_PREFETCH is set. We may
wish to add ARC_FLAG_PRESCIENT_PREFETCH to few more places.
- Fix few false positive tests found in the process.
Reviewed-by: George Wilson <gwilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Richard Yao <richard.yao@alumni.stonybrook.edu>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Closes#14123
69 CSTYLED BEGINs remain, appx. 30 of which can be removed if cstyle(1)
had a useful policy regarding
CALL(ARG1,
ARG2,
ARG3);
above 2 lines. As it stands, it spits out *both*
sysctl_os.c: 385: continuation line should be indented by 4 spaces
sysctl_os.c: 385: indent by spaces instead of tabs
which is very cool
Another >10 could be fixed by removing "ulong" &al. handling.
I don't foresee anyone actually using it intentionally
(does it even exist in modern headers? why did it in the first place?).
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Closes#12993
Instead of clearing stats inside arc_buf_alloc_impl() do it inside
arc_hdr_alloc() and arc_release(). It fixes statistics being wiped
every time a new dbuf is filled from the ARC.
Remove b_l1hdr.b_l2_hits. L2ARC hits are accounted at b_l2hdr.b_hits.
Since the hits are accounted under hash lock, replace atomics with
simple increments.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored-By: iXsystems, Inc.
Closes#12422
3442c2a02d added new `arc_wait_for_eviction` tracepoint, which fails to
compile, when tracepoints are enabled.
The tracepoint definition begins with `DEFINE_ARC_WAIT_FOR_EVICTION_EVENT`
and is a multi-line definition, so this fixes the backslash
and parenthesis accordingly.
Reviewed-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Snajdr <snajpa@snajpa.net>
Closes#10669
The ARC shrinker callback `arc_shrinker_count/_scan()` is invoked by the
kernel's shrinker mechanism when the system is running low on free
pages. This happens via 2 code paths:
1. "direct reclaim": The system is attempting to allocate a page, but we
are low on memory. The ARC shrinker callback is invoked from the
page-allocation code path.
2. "indirect reclaim": kswapd notices that there aren't many free pages,
so it invokes the ARC shrinker callback.
In both cases, the kernel's shrinker code requests that the ARC shrinker
callback release some of its cache, and then it measures how many pages
were released. However, it's measurement of released pages does not
include pages that are freed via `__free_pages()`, which is how the ARC
releases memory (via `abd_free_chunks()`). Rather, the kernel shrinker
code is looking for pages to be placed on the lists of reclaimable pages
(which is separate from actually-free pages).
Because the kernel shrinker code doesn't detect that the ARC has
released pages, it may call the ARC shrinker callback many times,
resulting in the ARC "collapsing" down to `arc_c_min`. This has several
negative impacts:
1. ZFS doesn't use RAM to cache data effectively.
2. In the direct reclaim case, a single page allocation may wait a long
time (e.g. more than a minute) while we evict the entire ARC.
3. Even with the improvements made in 67c0f0dedc ("ARC shrinking blocks
reads/writes"), occasionally `arc_size` may stay above `arc_c` for the
entire time of the ARC collapse, thus blocking ZFS read/write operations
in `arc_get_data_impl()`.
To address these issues, this commit limits the ways that the ARC
shrinker callback can be used by the kernel shrinker code, and mitigates
the impact of arc_is_overflowing() on ZFS read/write operations.
With this commit:
1. We limit the amount of data that can be reclaimed from the ARC via
the "direct reclaim" shrinker. This limits the amount of time it takes
to allocate a single page.
2. We do not allow the ARC to shrink via kswapd (indirect reclaim).
Instead we rely on `arc_evict_zthr` to monitor free memory and reduce
the ARC target size to keep sufficient free memory in the system. Note
that we can't simply rely on limiting the amount that we reclaim at once
(as for the direct reclaim case), because kswapd's "boosted" logic can
invoke the callback an unlimited number of times (see
`balance_pgdat()`).
3. When `arc_is_overflowing()` and we want to allocate memory,
`arc_get_data_impl()` will wait only for a multiple of the requested
amount of data to be evicted, rather than waiting for the ARC to no
longer be overflowing. This allows ZFS reads/writes to make progress
even while the ARC is overflowing, while also ensuring that the eviction
thread makes progress towards reducing the total amount of memory used
by the ARC.
4. The amount of memory that the ARC always tries to keep free for the
rest of the system, `arc_sys_free` is increased.
5. Now that the shrinker callback is able to provide feedback to the
kernel's shrinker code about our progress, we can safely enable
the kswapd hook. This will allow the arc to receive notifications
when memory pressure is first detected by the kernel. We also
re-enable the appropriate kstats to track these callbacks.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Co-authored-by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Closes#10600
Move Linux specific tracing headers and source to platform directories
and update the build system.
Reviewed-by: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@ixsystems.com>
Reviewed by: Brad Lewis <brad.lewis@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>
Closes#9290
