Brian Behlendorf
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Allocate a kmem cache magazine for every possible CPU which might be added to the system. This ensures that when one of these CPUs is enabled it can be safely used immediately. For many systems the number of online CPUs is identical to the number of present CPUs so this does imply an increased memory footprint. In fact, dynamically allocating the array of magazine pointers instead of using the worst case NR_CPUS can end up decreasing our memory footprint. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov> Closes #482
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