freebsd-dev/cddl
Andriy Gapon f9cdbaba8d MFV r318946: 8021 ARC buf data scatter-ization
illumos/illumos-gate@770499e185
770499e185

https://www.illumos.org/issues/8021
  The ARC buf data project (known simply as "ABD" since its genesis in the ZoL
  community) changes the way the ARC allocates `b_pdata` memory from using linear
  `void *` buffers to using scatter/gather lists of fixed-size 1KB chunks. This
  improves ZFS's performance by helping to defragment the address space occupied
  by the ARC, in particular for cases where compressed ARC is enabled. It could
  also ease future work to allocate pages directly from `segkpm` for minimal-
  overhead memory allocations, bypassing the `kmem` subsystem.
  This is essentially the same change as the one which recently landed in ZFS on
  Linux, although they made some platform-specific changes while adapting this
  work to their codebase:
  1. Implemented the equivalent of the `segkpm` suggestion for future work
  mentioned above to bypass issues that they've had with the Linux kernel memory
  allocator.
  2. Changed the internal representation of the ABD's scatter/gather list so it
  could be used to pass I/O directly into Linux block device drivers. (This
  feature is not available in the illumos block device interface yet.)

FreeBSD notes:
- the actual (default) chunk size is 4KB (despite the text above saying 1KB)
- we can try to reimplement ABDs, so that they are not permanently
  mapped into the KVA unless explicitly requested, especially on
  platforms with scarce KVA
- we can try to use unmapped I/O and avoid intermediate allocation of a
  linear, virtual memory mapped buffer
- we can try to avoid extra data copying by referring to chunks / pages
  in the original ABD

Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Paul Dagnelie <pcd@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: John Kennedy <john.kennedy@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Prakash Surya <prakash.surya@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Prashanth Sreenivasa <pks@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Chris Williamson <chris.williamson@delphix.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Author: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>

MFC after:	3 weeks
2017-06-20 17:39:24 +00:00
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compat/opensolaris libproc: Add support for some proc_attach() flags. 2016-12-06 04:22:38 +00:00
contrib/opensolaris MFV r318946: 8021 ARC buf data scatter-ization 2017-06-20 17:39:24 +00:00
lib Commit the 64-bit inode project. 2017-05-23 09:29:05 +00:00
sbin cddl: normalize paths using SRCTOP-relative paths or :H when possible 2017-03-04 11:30:04 +00:00
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