The global list has a marker with an invariant that free vnodes are
placed somewhere past that. A caller which performs filtering (like ZFS)
can move said marker all the way to the end, across free vnodes which
don't match. Then a caller which does not perform filtering will fail to
find them. This makes vn_alloc_hard sleep for 1 second instead of
reclaiming, resulting in significant stalls.
Fix the problem by requiring an explicit marker by callers which do
filtering.
As a temporary measure extend vnlru_free to restart if it fails to
reclaim anything.
Big thanks go to the reporter for testing several iterations of the
patch.
Reported by: Yamagi <lists yamagi.org>
Tested by: Yamagi <lists yamagi.org>
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29324
e9272225e6