When building SPL support into the kernel, ./copy-builtin will copy
non-toplevel .gitignore files. These files list /Makefile, which causes
git-archive to omit ./module/{spl,splat}/Makefile. The absence of these
files result in build failures when SPL is selected. ZFS is unaffected
because it puts Makefile in the toplevel .gitignore, which is not
copied. We fix SPL by emulating that behavior.
Reported-by: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#152
Export these symbols so they may be used by other ZFS consumers
besides the ZPL.
Remove three stale prototype definites from dbuf.h. The actual
implementations of these functions were removed/renamed long ago.
It would be good in the long term to remove the existing pragmas
we inherited from Solaris and simply use the dbuf_* names.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Currently, zvols have a discard granularity set to 0, which suggests to
the upper layer that discard requests of arbirarily small size and
alignment can be made efficiently.
In practice however, ZFS does not handle unaligned discard requests
efficiently: indeed, it is unable to free a part of a block. It will
write zeros to the specified range instead, which is both useless and
inefficient (see dnode_free_range).
With this patch, zvol block devices expose volblocksize as their discard
granularity, so the upper layer is aware that it's not supposed to send
discard requests smaller than volblocksize.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#862
A preprocessor definition renders this harmless. However, it is a good
idea to change this to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
The end_writeback() function was changed by moving the call to
inode_sync_wait() earlier in to evict(). This effecitvely changes
the ordering of the sync but it does not impact the details of
the zfs implementation.
However, as part of this change end_writeback() was renamed to
clear_inode() to reflect the new semantics. This change does
impact us and clear_inode() now maps to end_writeback() for
kernels prior to 3.5.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#784
The vmtruncate_range() support has been removed from the kernel in
favor of using the fallocate method in the file_operations table.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #784
The export_operations member ->encode_fh() has been updated to
take both the child and parent inodes. This interface used to
take the child dentry and a bool describing if the parent is needed.
NOTE: While updating this code I noticed that we do not currently
cleanly handle the case where we're passed a connectable parent.
This code should be audited to make sure we're doing the right thing.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #784
Gentoo Hardened kernels include the PaX/GRSecurity patches. They use a
dialect of C that relies on a GCC plugin. In particular, struct
file_operations has been marked do_const in the PaX/GRSecurity dialect,
which causes GCC to consider all instances of it as const. This caused
failures in the autotools checks and the ZFS source code.
To address this, we modify the autotools checks to take into account
differences between the PaX C dialect and the regular C dialect. We also
modify struct zfs_acl's z_ops member to be a pointer to a function
pointer table. Lastly, we modify zpl_put_link() to address a PaX change
to the function prototype of nd_get_link(). This avoids compiler errors
in the PaX/GRSecurity dialect.
Note that the change in zpl_put_link() causes a warning that becomes a
build failure when debugging is enabled. Fixing that warning requires
ryao/spl@5ca50ef459.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#484
Currently, zpool online -e (dynamic vdev expansion) doesn't work on
whole disks because we're invoking ioctl(BLKRRPART) from userspace
while ZFS still has a partition open on the disk, which results in
EBUSY.
This patch moves the BLKRRPART invocation from the zpool utility to the
module. Specifically, this is done just before opening the device in
vdev_disk_open() which is called inside vdev_reopen(). This requires
jumping through some hoops to get to the disk device from the partition
device, and to make sure we can still open the partition after the
BLKRRPART call.
Note that this new code path is triggered on dynamic vdev expansion
only; other actions, like creating a new pool, are unchanged and still
call BLKRRPART from userspace.
This change also depends on API changes which are available in 2.6.37
and latter kernels. The build system has been updated to detect this,
but there is no compatibility mode for older kernels. This means that
online expansion will NOT be available in older kernels. However, it
will still be possible to expand the vdev offline.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#808
The spl_rwsem_is_locked() compatibility function has been observed
to be a hot spot. The root cause of this is that we must check the
rwsem activity under the rwsem->wait_lock to avoid a race. When
the lock is busy significant contention can occur.
The upstream kernel fix for this race had the insight that by using
spin_trylock_irqsave() this contention could be avoided. When the
lock is contended it's reasonable to return that it is locked.
This change updates the SPLs implemention to be like the upstream
kernel. Since the kernel code has been in use for years now this
a low risk change.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <gwilson@zfsmail.com>
Reviewed by: Igor Kozhukhov <ikozhukhov@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Alexander Eremin <alexander.eremin@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Alexander Stetsenko <ams@nexenta.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
References:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1748
This commit modifies the user to kernel space ioctl ABI. Extra
care should be taken when updating to ensure both the kernel
modules and utilities are updated. If only the user space
component is updated both the 'zpool events' command and the
'zpool reguid' command will not work until the kernel modules
are updated.
Ported by: Martin Matuska <martin@matuska.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#665
The lack of the ULL suffix causes warnings such as the following on
32-bit systems:
In function 'zfsctl_is_snapdir':
zfs-0.6.0//module/zfs/zfs_ctldir.c:151: warning: integer constant
is too large for 'long' type
We add the ULL suffix to fix that.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#813
This prevents warnings in ZFS that were caused by changes necessary to
support PaX patched kernels. When debugging is enabled, these warnings
become build failures.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#131
Usage of get_current() is not supported across all architectures.
The correct interface to use is the '#define current' which will
map to the appropriate function, usually current_thread_info().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#119
The performance of the ZIL is usually the main bottleneck when dealing with
synchronous, write-heavy workloads (e.g. databases). Understanding the
behavior of the ZIL is required to diagnose performance issues for these
workloads, and to tune ZIL parameters (like zil_slog_limit) accordingly.
This commit adds a new kstat page dedicated to the ZIL with some counters
which, hopefully, scheds some light into what the ZIL is doing, and how it is
doing it.
Currently, these statistics are available in /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/zil.
A description of the fields can be found in zil.h.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#786
FreeBSD #xxx: Dramatically optimize listing snapshots when user
requests only snapshot names and wants to sort them by name, ie.
when executes:
# zfs list -t snapshot -o name -s name
Because only name is needed we don't have to read all snapshot
properties.
Below you can find how long does it take to list 34509 snapshots
from a single disk pool before and after this change with cold and
warm cache:
before:
# time zfs list -t snapshot -o name -s name > /dev/null
cold cache: 525s
warm cache: 218s
after:
# time zfs list -t snapshot -o name -s name > /dev/null
cold cache: 1.7s
warm cache: 1.1s
NOTE: This patch only appears in FreeBSD. If/when Illumos picks up
the change we may want to drop this patch and adopt their version.
However, for now this addresses a real issue.
Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #450
torvalds/linux@1dce27c5aa introduced
__clear_close_on_exec() as a replacement for FD_CLR. Further commits
appear to have removed FD_CLR from the Linux source tree. This
causes the following failure:
error: implicit declaration of function '__FD_CLR'
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
To correct this we update the code to use the current
__clear_close_on_exec() interface for readability. Then we introduce
an autotools check to determine if __clear_close_on_exec() is available.
If it isn't then we define some compatibility logic which used the older
FD_CLR() interface.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#124
torvalds/linux@adc0e91ab1 introduced
introduced d_make_root() as a replacement for d_alloc_root(). Further
commits appear to have removed d_alloc_root() from the Linux source
tree. This causes the following failure:
error: implicit declaration of function 'd_alloc_root'
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
To correct this we update the code to use the current d_make_root()
interface for readability. Then we introduce an autotools check
to determine if d_make_root() is available. If it isn't then we
define some compatibility logic which used the older d_alloc_root()
interface.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#776
Originally I believed that these interfaces would be needed.
However, in practice it turned out that it was more straight
forward and maintainable to use the native Linux interfaces.
As such, this is all dead code and can be safely removed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#109
The resolution of issue #31 made KM_PUSHPAGE imply GFP_NOFS. This
was done to prevent situations where filesystem operations which are
holding locks enter direct reclaim and attempt to reaquire those
same locks. This clearly will result in a deadlock.
This works for datasets which are implemented in terms for filesystem
operations. But unfortunately, swapping to a zvol will encounter
many of the same deadlocks and GFP_NOFS will not prevent this. As
such, it is appropriate to extend KM_PUSHPAGE to use the broader
GFP_NOIO mask to handle these non-filesystem cases.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#342Closes#105
Previously, the SPL tried to maintain Solaris semantics by freeing
all available (empty) slabs from its slab caches when the shrinker
was called. This is not desirable when running on Linux. To make
the SPL shrinker more Linux friendly, the actual number of freed
slabs from each of the slab caches is now derived from nr_to_scan
and skc_slab_objs.
Additionally, an accounting bug was fixed in spl_slab_reclaim()
which could cause us to reclaim one more slab than requested.
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#101
The mode argument of iops->create()/mkdir()/mknod() was changed from
an 'int' to a 'umode_t'. To prevent a compiler warning an autoconf
check was added to detect the API change and then correctly set a
zpl_umode_t typedef. There is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#701
Long ago I added support to the spl for condition variable names
because I thought they might be needed. It turns out they aren't.
In fact the official Solaris cv_init(9F) man page discourages
their use in the kernel.
cv_init(9F)
Parameters
name - Descriptive string. This is obsolete and should be
NULL. (Non-NULL strings are legal, but they're a
waste of kernel memory.)
Therefore, I'm removing them from the spl to reclaim this memory
and adding an ASSERT() to ensure no new consumers are added which
make use of the name.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Allow rigorous (and expensive) tx validation to be enabled/disabled
indepentantly from the standard zfs debugging. When enabled these
checks ensure that all txs are constructed properly and that a dbuf
is never dirtied without taking the correct tx hold.
This checking is particularly helpful when adding new dmu consumers
like Lustre. However, for established consumers such as the zpl
with no known outstanding tx construction problems this is just
overhead.
--enable-debug-dmu-tx - Enable/disable validation of each tx as
--disable-debug-dmu-tx it is constructed. By default validation
is disabled due to performance concerns.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Include the ZFS_META_RELEASE in the module load/unload messages
to more clearly indicate exactly what version of the SPL has
been loaded.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Add support for the .zfs control directory. This was accomplished
by leveraging as much of the existing ZFS infrastructure as posible
and updating it for Linux as required. The bulk of the core
functionality is now all there with the following limitations.
*) The .zfs/snapshot directory automount support requires a 2.6.37
or newer kernel. The exception is RHEL6.2 which has backported
the d_automount patches.
*) Creating/destroying/renaming snapshots with mkdir/rmdir/mv
in the .zfs/snapshot directory works as expected. However,
this functionality is only available to root until zfs
delegations are finished.
* mkdir - create a snapshot
* rmdir - destroy a snapshot
* mv - rename a snapshot
The following issues are known defeciences, but we expect them to
be addressed by future commits.
*) Add automount support for kernels older the 2.6.37. This should
be possible using follow_link() which is what Linux did before.
*) Accessing the .zfs/snapshot directory via NFS is not yet possible.
The majority of the ground work for this is complete. However,
finishing this work will require resolving some lingering
integration issues with the Linux NFS kernel server.
*) The .zfs/shares directory exists but no futher smb functionality
has yet been implemented.
Contributions-by: Rohan Puri <rohan.puri15@gmail.com>
Contributiobs-by: Andrew Barnes <barnes333@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#173
Add a SA interface which allows us to release the spill block
from a SA handle without destroying the handle. This is useful
because we can then ensure that a copy of the dirty spill block
is not made at sync time due to the extra hold. Susequent calls
to sa_update() or sa_lookup() with transparently refetch the
spill block dbuf from the ARC hash.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Allow a source rpm to be rebuilt with debugging enabled. This
avoids the need to have to manually modify the spec file. By
default debugging is still largely disabled. To enable specific
debugging features use the following options with rpmbuild.
'--with debug' - Enables ASSERTs
'--with debug-log' - Enables the internal debug log
'--with debug-kmem' - Enables basic memory accounting
'--with debug-kmem-tracking' - Enables detailed memory tracking
# For example:
$ rpmbuild --rebuild --with debug spl-modules-0.6.0-rc6.src.rpm
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Allow a source rpm to be rebuilt with debugging enabled. This
avoids the need to have to manually modify the spec file. By
default debugging is still largely disabled. To enable specific
debugging features use the following options with rpmbuild.
'--with debug' - Enables ASSERTs
# For example:
$ rpmbuild --rebuild --with debug zfs-modules-0.6.0-rc6.src.rpm
Additionally, ZFS_CONFIG has been added to zfs_config.h for
packages which build against these headers. This is critical
to ensure both zfs and the dependant package are using the same
prototype and structure definitions.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Keep counters for the various reasons that a thread may end up
in txg_wait_open() waiting on a new txg. This can be useful
when attempting to determine why a particular workload is
under performing.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
When building the spl with --disable-debug-log the __SDEBUG()
macro and spl_debug_* helper functions were undefined. This
change adds the missing functions so the upper layers compiling
against the spl don't need to be aware of how the spl was built.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
DISCARD (REQ_DISCARD, BLKDISCARD) is useful for thin provisioning.
It allows ZVOL clients to discard (unmap, trim) block ranges from
a ZVOL, thus optimizing disk space usage by allowing a ZVOL to
shrink instead of just grow.
We can't use zfs_space() or zfs_freesp() here, since these functions
only work on regular files, not volumes. Fortunately we can use the
low-level function dmu_free_long_range() which does exactly what we
want.
Currently the discard operation is not added to the log. That's not
a big deal since losing discard requests cannot result in data
corruption. It would however result in disk space usage higher than
it should be. Thus adding log support to zvol_discard() is probably
a good idea for a future improvement.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Currently only the (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) flag combination is
supported, since it's the only one that matches the behavior of
zfs_space(). This makes it pretty much useless in its current
form, but it's a start.
To support other flag combinations we would need to modify
zfs_space() to make it more flexible, or emulate the desired
functionality in zpl_fallocate().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #334
The Linux block device queue subsystem exposes a number of configurable
settings described in Linux block/blk-settings.c. The defaults for these
settings are tuned for hard drives, and are not optimized for ZVOLs. Proper
configuration of these options would allow upper layers (I/O scheduler) to
take better decisions about write merging and ordering.
Detailed rationale:
- max_hw_sectors is set to unlimited (UINT_MAX). zvol_write() is able to
handle writes of any size, so there's no reason to impose a limit. Let the
upper layer decide.
- max_segments and max_segment_size are set to unlimited. zvol_write() will
copy the requests' contents into a dbuf anyway, so the number and size of
the segments are irrelevant. Let the upper layer decide.
- physical_block_size and io_opt are set to the ZVOL's block size. This
has the potential to somewhat alleviate issue #361 for ZVOLs, by warning
the upper layers that writes smaller than the volume's block size will be
slow.
- The NONROT flag is set to indicate this isn't a rotational device.
Although the backing zpool might be composed of rotational devices, the
resulting ZVOL often doesn't exhibit the same behavior due to the COW
mechanisms used by ZFS. Setting this flag will prevent upper layers from
making useless decisions (such as reordering writes) based on incorrect
assumptions about the behavior of the ZVOL.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
zvol_write() assumes that the write request must be written to stable storage
if rq_is_sync() is true. Unfortunately, this assumption is incorrect. Indeed,
"sync" does *not* mean what we think it means in the context of the Linux
block layer. This is well explained in linux/fs.h:
WRITE: A normal async write. Device will be plugged.
WRITE_SYNC: Synchronous write. Identical to WRITE, but passes down
the hint that someone will be waiting on this IO
shortly.
WRITE_FLUSH: Like WRITE_SYNC but with preceding cache flush.
WRITE_FUA: Like WRITE_SYNC but data is guaranteed to be on
non-volatile media on completion.
In other words, SYNC does not *mean* that the write must be on stable storage
on completion. It just means that someone is waiting on us to complete the
write request. Thus triggering a ZIL commit for each SYNC write request on a
ZVOL is unnecessary and harmful for performance. To make matters worse, ZVOL
users have no way to express that they actually want data to be written to
stable storage, which means the ZIL is broken for ZVOLs.
The request for stable storage is expressed by the FUA flag, so we must
commit the ZIL after the write if the FUA flag is set. In addition, we must
commit the ZIL before the write if the FLUSH flag is set.
Also, we must inform the block layer that we actually support FLUSH and FUA.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The second argument of sops->show_options() was changed from a
'struct vfsmount *' to a 'struct dentry *'. Add an autoconf check
to detect the API change and then conditionally define the expected
interface. In either case we are only interested in the zfs_sb_t.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#549
Add the bare minimum functionality to support dynamic kstats. A
complete kstat implementation should be done as part of issue #84.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #84
Until now the notion of an internal debug logging infrastructure
was conflated with enabling ASSERT()s. This patch clarifies things
by cleanly breaking the two subsystem apart. The result of this
is the following behavior.
--enable-debug - Enable/disable code wrapped in ASSERT()s.
--disable-debug ASSERT()s are used to check invariants and
are never required for correct operation.
They are disabled by default because they
may impact performance.
--enable-debug-log - Enable/disable the debug log infrastructure.
--disable-debug-log This infrastructure allows the spl code and
its consumer to log messages to an in-kernel
log. The granularity of the logging can be
controlled by a debug mask. By default the
mask disables most debug messages resulting
in a negligible performance impact. Because
of this the debug log is enabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Historically the internal zfs debug infrastructure has been
scattered throughout the code. Since we expect to start making
more use of this code this patch performs some cleanup.
* Consolidate the zfs debug infrastructure in the zfs_debug.[ch]
files. This includes moving the zfs_flags and zfs_recover
variables, plus moving the zfs_panic_recover() function.
* Remove the existing unused functionality in zfs_debug.c and
replace it with code which correctly utilized the spl logging
infrastructure.
* Remove the __dprintf() function from zfs_ioctl.c. This is
dead code, the dprintf() functionality in the kernel relies
on the spl log support.
* Remove dprintf() from hdr_recl(). This wasn't particularly
useful and was missing the required format specifier anyway.
* Subsequent patches should unify the dprintf() and zfs_dbgmsg()
functions.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
When the original build system code was added the release
component was accidentally omited from the development header
install path. This patch adds the missing path component so
it's always clear exactly what release your compiling against.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
When the original build system code was added the release
component was accidentally omited from the development header
install path. This patch adds the missing path component so
it's always clear exactly what release your compiling against.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Originally, the per-file link limit was set to 65536 because the
exact Linux VFS limit was unclear. Internally ZFS is able to
support 64-bit link counts. After a more careful investigation
the limit can be safely raised to 2^31-1.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#514
The wait_lock member of the rw_semaphore struct became a raw_spinlock_t
in Linux 3.2 at torvalds/linux@ddb6c9b58a.
Wrap spin_lock_* function calls in a new spl_rwsem_* interface to
ensure type safety if raw_spinlock_t becomes architecture specific,
and to satisfy these compiler warnings:
warning: passing argument 1 of ‘spinlock_check’
from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
note: expected ‘struct spinlock_t *’
but argument is of type ‘struct raw_spinlock_t *’
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes: #76Closes: zfsonlinux/zfs#463
The Linux 3.1 kernel has introduced the concept of per-filesystem
shrinkers which are directly assoicated with a super block. Prior
to this change there was one shared global shrinker.
The zfs code relied on being able to call the global shrinker when
the arc_meta_limit was exceeded. This would cause the VFS to drop
references on a fraction of the dentries in the dcache. The ARC
could then safely reclaim the memory used by these entries and
honor the arc_meta_limit. Unfortunately, when per-filesystem
shrinkers were added the old interfaces were made unavailable.
This change adds support to use the new per-filesystem shrinker
interface so we can continue to honor the arc_meta_limit. The
major benefit of the new interface is that we can now target
only the zfs filesystem for dentry and inode pruning. Thus we
can minimize any impact on the caching of other filesystems.
In the context of making this change several other important
issues related to managing the ARC were addressed, they include:
* The dnlc_reduce_cache() function which was called by the ARC
to drop dentries for the Posix layer was replaced with a generic
zfs_prune_t callback. The ZPL layer now registers a callback to
drop these dentries removing a layering violation which dates
back to the Solaris code. This callback can also be used by
other ARC consumers such as Lustre.
arc_add_prune_callback()
arc_remove_prune_callback()
* The arc_reduce_dnlc_percent module option has been changed to
arc_meta_prune for clarity. The dnlc functions are specific to
Solaris's VFS and have already been largely eliminated already.
The replacement tunable now represents the number of bytes the
prune callback will request when invoked.
* Less aggressively invoke the prune callback. We used to call
this whenever we exceeded the arc_meta_limit however that's not
strictly correct since it results in over zeleous reclaim of
dentries and inodes. It is now only called once the arc_meta_limit
is exceeded and every effort has been made to evict other data from
the ARC cache.
* More promptly manage exceeding the arc_meta_limit. When reading
meta data in to the cache if a buffer was unable to be recycled
notify the arc_reclaim thread to invoke the required prune.
* Added arcstat_prune kstat which is incremented when the ARC
is forced to request that a consumer prune its cache. Remember
this will only occur when the ARC has no other choice. If it
can evict buffers safely without invoking the prune callback
it will.
* This change is also expected to resolve the unexpect collapses
of the ARC cache. This would occur because when exceeded just the
arc_meta_limit reclaim presure would be excerted on the arc_c
value via arc_shrink(). This effectively shrunk the entire cache
when really we just needed to reclaim meta data.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#466Closes#292
Richard Yao