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Brian Behlendorf 3c82160ff2 Set TASKQ_DYNAMIC for kmem and system taskqs
Add the TASKQ_DYNAMIC flag to the kmem_cache and system taskqs
to reduce the number of idle threads on the system.  Additional
threads will be created on demand up to the previous maximum
thread counts.  This should have minimal, if any, impact on
performance.

This makes the system taskq consistent with illumos which is
always created as a dynamic taskq with up to 64 threads.

The task limits for the kmem_cache have been increased to avoid
any unnessisary throttling and to keep a larger reserve of
task_t structures on the free list.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes #458
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README.markdown Document how to run SPLAT 2013-10-09 13:52:59 -07:00
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The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Solaris development closely and do not want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives.

To build packages for your distribution:

$ ./configure
$ make pkg

If you are building directly from the git tree and not an officially released tarball you will need to generate the configure script. This can be done by executing the autogen.sh script after installing the GNU autotools for your distribution.

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-...

The SPL comes with an automated test suite called SPLAT. The test suite is implemented in two parts. There is a kernel module which contains the tests and a user space utility which controls which tests are run. To run the full test suite:

$ sudo insmod ./module/splat/splat.ko
$ sudo ./cmd/splat --all

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