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Etienne Dechamps 0aebd4f9e3 Create threads in detached state in userspace.
Currently, thread_create(), when called in userspace, creates a
joinable (i.e. not detached thread). This is the pthread default.

Unfortunately, this does not reproduce kthreads behavior (kthreads
are always detached). In addition, this contradicts the original
Solaris code which creates userspace threads in detached mode.

These joinable threads are never joined, which leads to a leakage of
pthread thread objects ("zombie threads"). This in turn results in
excessive ressource consumption, and possible ressource exhaustion in
extreme cases (e.g. long ztest runs).

This patch fixes the issue by creating userspace threads in detached
mode. The only exception is ztest worker threads which are meant to be
joinable.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #989
2012-10-03 13:32:48 -07:00
cmd Create threads in detached state in userspace. 2012-10-03 13:32:48 -07:00
config Modify vdev_elevator_switch() to use elevator_change() 2012-10-03 13:31:44 -07:00
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include Create threads in detached state in userspace. 2012-10-03 13:32:48 -07:00
lib Create threads in detached state in userspace. 2012-10-03 13:32:48 -07:00
man Illumos #2703: add mechanism to report ZFS send progress 2012-09-19 13:39:06 -07:00
module Modify vdev_elevator_switch() to use elevator_change() 2012-10-03 13:31:44 -07:00
patches Adding grub2 mkconfig support patch 2012-07-30 16:17:23 -07:00
scripts Force 4K blocksize when testing ext2 on zvol. 2012-10-03 10:52:51 -07:00
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AUTHORS Add "ashift" property to zpool create 2011-06-17 16:35:49 -07:00
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ChangeLog Add build system 2010-08-31 13:41:27 -07:00
configure.ac Add zstreamdump(8) command to examine ZFS send streams. 2012-09-02 14:54:27 -07:00
copy-builtin Consistent menuconfig name 2012-08-26 13:49:37 -07:00
COPYING Relocate COPYING+COPYRIGHT, remove README cruft 2008-12-01 15:34:53 -08:00
COPYRIGHT Update COPYRIGHT to reference zpios CDDL exceptions. 2010-05-18 14:25:28 -07:00
DISCLAIMER Update COPYRIGHT and DISCLAIMER. 2010-05-18 10:32:23 -07:00
dkms.conf.in Support building a zfs-modules-dkms sub package 2012-08-08 15:21:01 -07:00
dkms.postinst Support building a zfs-modules-dkms sub package 2012-08-08 15:21:01 -07:00
Makefile.am Add copy-builtin to EXTRA_DIST 2012-08-23 09:50:00 -07:00
META zfs-0.6.0-rc11 2012-09-18 11:30:24 -07:00
OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE Add CDDL license file 2008-12-01 14:49:34 -08:00
PKGBUILD-zfs-modules.in Add make rule for building Arch Linux packages 2011-12-14 19:14:23 -08:00
PKGBUILD-zfs.in Add make rule for building Arch Linux packages 2011-12-14 19:14:23 -08:00
README.markdown Add script for builtin module building. 2012-07-26 13:45:09 -07:00
zfs-modules.spec.in Cleanly remove zfs-modules-devel headers 2012-08-13 16:35:26 -07:00
zfs-script-config.sh.in Unconditionally load core kernel modules 2010-11-11 11:38:25 -08:00
ZFS.RELEASE Update to onnv_147 2010-08-26 14:24:34 -07:00
zfs.release.in Move zfs.release generation to configure step 2012-07-12 12:22:51 -07:00
zfs.spec.in Fix man page installation path 2012-08-10 15:32:30 -07:00

Native ZFS for Linux! ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris. It has been successfully ported to FreeBSD and now there is a functional Linux ZFS kernel port too. The port currently includes a fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, and ZVOL with a ZFS Posix Layer (ZPL) on the way!

$ ./configure
$ make pkg

To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin compilation:

$ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
$ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...

Full documentation for building, configuring, and using ZFS can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org