information.
The existing algorithm selects a preferred leaf vdev based on offset of the zio
request modulo the number of members in the mirror. It assumes the devices are
of equal performance and that spreading the requests randomly over both drives
will be sufficient to saturate them. In practice this results in the leaf vdevs
being under utilized.
The new algorithm takes into the following additional factors:
* Load of the vdevs (number outstanding I/O requests)
* The locality of last queued I/O vs the new I/O request.
Within the locality calculation additional knowledge about the underlying vdev
is considered such as; is the device backing the vdev a rotating media device.
This results in performance increases across the board as well as significant
increases for predominantly streaming loads and for configurations which don't
have evenly performing devices.
The following are results from a setup with 3 Way Mirror with 2 x HD's and
1 x SSD from a basic test running multiple parrallel dd's.
With pre-fetch disabled (vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1):
== Stripe Balanced (default) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 161 seconds @ 95 MB/s
== Load Balanced (zfslinux) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 297 seconds @ 51 MB/s
== Load Balanced (locality freebsd) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 54 seconds @ 284 MB/s
With pre-fetch enabled (vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0):
== Stripe Balanced (default) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 91 seconds @ 168 MB/s
== Load Balanced (zfslinux) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 108 seconds @ 142 MB/s
== Load Balanced (locality freebsd) ==
Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 48 seconds @ 320 MB/s
In addition to the performance changes the code was also restructured, with
the help of Justin Gibbs, to provide a more logical flow which also ensures
vdevs loads are only calculated from the set of valid candidates.
The following additional sysctls where added to allow the administrator
to tune the behaviour of the load algorithm:
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.rotating_inc
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.rotating_seek_inc
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.rotating_seek_offset
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.non_rotating_inc
* vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.non_rotating_seek_inc
These changes where based on work started by the zfsonlinux developers:
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/1487
Reviewed by: gibbs, mav, will
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Multiplay
When safety requirements are met, it allows to avoid passing I/O requests
to GEOM g_up/g_down thread, executing them directly in the caller context.
That allows to avoid CPU bottlenecks in g_up/g_down threads, plus avoid
several context switches per I/O.
The defined now safety requirements are:
- caller should not hold any locks and should be reenterable;
- callee should not depend on GEOM dual-threaded concurency semantics;
- on the way down, if request is unmapped while callee doesn't support it,
the context should be sleepable;
- kernel thread stack usage should be below 50%.
To keep compatibility with GEOM classes not meeting above requirements
new provider and consumer flags added:
- G_CF_DIRECT_SEND -- consumer code meets caller requirements (request);
- G_CF_DIRECT_RECEIVE -- consumer code meets callee requirements (done);
- G_PF_DIRECT_SEND -- provider code meets caller requirements (done);
- G_PF_DIRECT_RECEIVE -- provider code meets callee requirements (request).
Capable GEOM class can set them, allowing direct dispatch in cases where
it is safe. If any of requirements are not met, request is queued to
g_up or g_down thread same as before.
Such GEOM classes were reviewed and updated to support direct dispatch:
CONCAT, DEV, DISK, GATE, MD, MIRROR, MULTIPATH, NOP, PART, RAID, STRIPE,
VFS, ZERO, ZFS::VDEV, ZFS::ZVOL, all classes based on g_slice KPI (LABEL,
MAP, FLASHMAP, etc).
To declare direct completion capability disk(9) KPI got new flag equivalent
to G_PF_DIRECT_SEND -- DISKFLAG_DIRECT_COMPLETION. da(4) and ada(4) disk
drivers got it set now thanks to earlier CAM locking work.
This change more then twice increases peak block storage performance on
systems with manu CPUs, together with earlier CAM locking changes reaching
more then 1 million IOPS (512 byte raw reads from 16 SATA SSDs on 4 HBAs to
256 user-level threads).
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
MFC after: 2 months
Ensure that d_delmaxsize is always set, removing init to 0 which could cause
future issues if use cases change.
Allow kern.cam.da.X.delete_max (which maps to d_delmaxsize) to be increased
up to the calculated max after being reduced.
MFC after: 1 day
X-MFC-With: r249940
requests.
sys/geom/geom_disk.h:
- Added d_delmaxsize which represents the maximum size of individual
device delete requests in bytes. This can be used by devices to
inform geom of their size limitations regarding delete operations
which are generally different from the read / write limits as data
is not usually transferred from the host to physical device.
sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
- Use new d_delmaxsize to calculate the size of chunks passed through to
the underlying strategy during deletes instead of using read / write
optimised values. This defaults to d_maxsize if unset (0).
- Moved d_maxsize default up so it can be used to default d_delmaxsize
sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
- Added d_delmaxsize calculations for TRIM and CFA
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
- Added re-calculation of d_delmaxsize whenever delete_method is set.
- Added kern.cam.da.X.delete_max sysctl which allows the max size for
delete requests to be limited. This is useful in preventing timeouts
on devices who's delete methods are slow. It should be noted that
this limit is reset then the device delete method is changed and
that it can only be lowered not increased from the device max.
Reviewed by: mav
Approved by: pjd (mentor)
It includes three parts:
1) Modifications to CAM to detect media media changes and report them to
disk(9) layer. For modern SATA (and potentially UAS) devices it utilizes
Asynchronous Notification mechanism to receive events from hardware.
Active polling with TEST UNIT READY commands with 3 seconds period is used
for incapable hardware. After that both CD and DA drivers work the same way,
detecting two conditions: "NOT READY: Medium not present" after medium was
detected previously, and "UNIT ATTENTION: Not ready to ready change, medium
may have changed". First one reported to disk(9) as media removal, second
as media insert/change. To reliably receive second event new
AC_UNIT_ATTENTION async added to make UAs broadcasted to all periphs by
generic error handling code in cam_periph_error().
2) Modifications to GEOM core to handle media remove and change events.
Media removal handled by spoiling all consumers attached to the provider.
Media change event also schedules provider retaste after spoiling to probe
new media. New flag G_CF_ORPHAN was added to consumers to reflect that
consumer is in process of destruction. It allows retaste to create new
geom instance of the same class, while previous one is still dying.
3) Modifications to some GEOM classes: DEV -- to report media change
events to devd; VFS -- to handle spoiling same as orphan to prevent
accessing replaced media. PART class already handles spoiling alike to
orphan.
Reviewed by: silence on geom@ and scsi@
Tested by: avg
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc. / PC-BSD
MFC after: 2 months
a da(4) instance going away while GEOM is still probing it.
In this case, the GEOM disk class instance has been created by
disk_create(), and the taste of the disk is queued in the GEOM
event queue.
While that event is queued, the da(4) instance goes away. When the
open call comes into the da(4) driver, it dereferences the freed
(but non-NULL) peripheral pointer provided by GEOM, which results
in a panic.
The solution is to add a callback to the GEOM disk code that is
called when all of its resources are cleaned up. This is
implemented inside GEOM by adding an optional callback that is
called when all consumers have detached from a provider, and the
provider is about to be deleted.
scsi_cd.c,
scsi_da.c: In the register routine for the cd(4) and da(4)
routines, acquire a reference to the CAM peripheral
instance just before we call disk_create().
Use the new GEOM disk d_gone() callback to register
a callback (dadiskgonecb()/cddiskgonecb()) that
decrements the peripheral reference count once GEOM
has finished cleaning up its resources.
In the cd(4) driver, clean up open and close
behavior slightly. GEOM makes sure we only get one
open() and one close call, so there is no need to
set an open flag and decrement the reference count
if we are not the first open.
In the cd(4) driver, use cam_periph_release_locked()
in a couple of error scenarios to avoid extra mutex
calls.
geom.h: Add a new, optional, providergone callback that
is called when a provider is about to be deleted.
geom_disk.h: Add a new d_gone() callback to the GEOM disk
interface.
Bump the DISK_VERSION to version 2. This probably
should have been done after a couple of previous
changes, especially the addition of the d_getattr()
callback.
geom_disk.c: Add a providergone callback for the disk class,
g_disk_providergone(), that calls the user's
d_gone() callback if it exists.
Bump the DISK_VERSION to 2.
geom_subr.c: In g_destroy_provider(), call the providergone
callback if it has been provided.
In g_new_geomf(), propagate the class's
providergone callback to the new geom instance.
blkfront.c: Callers of disk_create() are supposed to pass in
DISK_VERSION, not an explicit disk API version
number. Update the blkfront driver to do that.
disk.9: Update the disk(9) man page to include information
on the new d_gone() callback, as well as the
previously added d_getattr() callback, d_descr
field, and HBA PCI ID fields.
MFC after: 5 days
DEVFS, and make it accessible via the diskinfo utility.
Extend GEOM's generic attribute query mechanism into generic disk consumers.
sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
sys/geom/geom_disk.h:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
- Allow disk providers to implement a new method which can override
the default BIO_GETATTR response, d_getattr(struct bio *). This
function returns -1 if not handled, otherwise it returns 0 or an
errno to be passed to g_io_deliver().
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
- Don't copy the serial number to dp->d_ident anymore, as the CAM XPT
is now responsible for returning this information via
d_getattr()->(a)dagetattr()->xpt_getatr().
sys/geom/geom_dev.c:
- Implement a new ioctl, DIOCGPHYSPATH, which returns the GEOM
attribute "GEOM::physpath", if possible. If the attribute request
returns a zero-length string, ENOENT is returned.
usr.sbin/diskinfo/diskinfo.c:
- If the DIOCGPHYSPATH ioctl is successful, report physical path
data when diskinfo is executed with the '-v' option.
Submitted by: will
Reviewed by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
Add generic attribute change notification support to GEOM.
sys/sys/geom/geom.h:
Add a new attrchanged method field to both g_class
and g_geom.
sys/sys/geom/geom.h:
sys/geom/geom_event.c:
- Provide the g_attr_changed() function that providers
can use to advertise attribute changes.
- Perform delivery of attribute change notifications
from a thread context via the standard GEOM event
mechanism.
sys/geom/geom_subr.c:
Inherit the attrchanged method from class to geom (class instance).
sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
Provide disk_attr_changed() to provide g_attr_changed() access
to consumers of the disk API.
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_pass.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
sys/geom/geom_dev.c:
sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
Use attribute changed events to track updates to physical path
information.
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
Add AC_ADVINFO_CHANGED to the registered asynchronous CAM
events for this driver. When this event occurs, and
the updated buffer type references our physical path
attribute, emit a GEOM attribute changed event via the
disk_attr_changed() API.
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_pass.c:
Add AC_ADVINFO_CHANGED to the registered asynchronous CAM
events for this driver. When this event occurs, update
the physical patch devfs alias for this pass instance.
Submitted by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
the underlying drive had been hot-unplugged from the system. Here
is a specific example. Filesystem code had opened /dev/da1s1e.
Subsequently, the drive was hot-unplugged. This (correctly) caused
all of the associated /dev/da1* entries to be deleted. When the
filesystem later realized that the drive was gone it closed the
device, reducing the write-access counts to 0 on the geom providers
for da1s1e, da1s1, and da1. This caused geom to re-taste the
providers, resulting in the devices being created again. When the
drive was hot-plugged back in, it resulted in duplicate /dev entries
for da1s1e, da1s1, and da1.
This fix adds a new disk_gone() function which is called by CAM when a
drive goes away. It orphans all of the providers associated with the
drive, setting an error condition of ENXIO in each one. In addition,
we prevent a re-taste on last close for writing if an error condition
has been set in the provider.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems
Reviewed by: phk
MFC after: 1 week
Previously the "struct disk" were owned by the device driver and this
gave us problems when the device disappared and the users of that device
were not immediately disappearing.
Now the struct disk is allocate with a new call, disk_alloc() and owned
by geom_disk and just abandonned by the device driver when disk_create()
is called.
Unfortunately, this results in a ton of "s/\./->/" changes to device
drivers.
Since I'm doing the sweep anyway, a couple of other API improvements
have been carried out at the same time:
The Giant awareness flag has been flipped from DISKFLAG_NOGIANT to
DISKFLAG_NEEDSGIANT
A version number have been added to disk_create() so that we can detect,
report and ignore binary drivers with old ABI in the future.
Manual page update to follow shortly.
event posting functions varargs to fill these.
Attribute g_call_me() to appropriate g_geom's where necessary.
Add a flag argument to g_call_me() methods which will be used to signal
cancellation of events in the future.
This commit should be a no-op.
