PROBLEM
========
The first access to a block incurs a performance penalty on some platforms
(e.g. AWS's EBS, VMware VMDKs). Therefore we recommend that volumes are
"thick provisioned", where supported by the platform (VMware). This can
create a large delay in getting a new virtual machines up and running (or
adding storage to an existing Engine). If the thick provision step is
omitted, write performance will be suboptimal until all blocks on the LUN
have been written.
SOLUTION
=========
This feature introduces a way to 'initialize' the disks at install or in the
background to make sure we don't incur this first read penalty.
When an entire LUN is added to ZFS, we make all space available immediately,
and allow ZFS to find unallocated space and zero it out. This works with
concurrent writes to arbitrary offsets, ensuring that we don't zero out
something that has been (or is in the middle of being) written. This scheme
can also be applied to existing pools (affecting only free regions on the
vdev). Detailed design:
- new subcommand:zpool initialize [-cs] <pool> [<vdev> ...]
- start, suspend, or cancel initialization
- Creates new open-context thread for each vdev
- Thread iterates through all metaslabs in this vdev
- Each metaslab:
- select a metaslab
- load the metaslab
- mark the metaslab as being zeroed
- walk all free ranges within that metaslab and translate
them to ranges on the leaf vdev
- issue a "zeroing" I/O on the leaf vdev that corresponds to
a free range on the metaslab we're working on
- continue until all free ranges for this metaslab have been
"zeroed"
- reset/unmark the metaslab being zeroed
- if more metaslabs exist, then repeat above tasks.
- if no more metaslabs, then we're done.
- progress for the initialization is stored on-disk in the vdev’s
leaf zap object. The following information is stored:
- the last offset that has been initialized
- the state of the initialization process (i.e. active,
suspended, or canceled)
- the start time for the initialization
- progress is reported via the zpool status command and shows
information for each of the vdevs that are initializing
Porting notes:
- Added zfs_initialize_value module parameter to set the pattern
written by "zpool initialize".
- Added zfs_vdev_{initializing,removal}_{min,max}_active module options.
Authored by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: John Wren Kennedy <john.kennedy@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Prakash Surya <prakash.surya@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: loli10K <ezomori.nozomu@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
OpenZFS-issue: https://www.illumos.org/issues/9102
OpenZFS-commit: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/commit/c3963210ebCloses#8230
When zfs_kobj_init() is called with an attr_cnt of 0 only the
kobj->zko_default_attrs is allocated. It subsequently won't
get freed in zfs_kobj_release since the free is wrapped in
a kobj->zko_attr_count != 0 conditional.
Split the block in zfs_kobj_release() to make sure the
kobj->zko_default_attrs are freed in this case.
Additionally, fix a minor spelling mistake and typo in
zfs_kobj_init() which could also cause a leak but in practice
is almost certain not to fail.
Reviewed-by: Richard Elling <Richard.Elling@RichardElling.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Reviewed-by: John Gallagher <john.gallagher@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Don Brady <don.brady@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#7957
The recent sysfs zfs properties feature breaks the in-kernel
builds of zfs (sans module). When not built as a module add
the sysfs entries under /sys/fs/zfs/.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Don Brady <don.brady@delphix.com>
Closes#7868Closes#7872
The ZTS zfs_sysfs_live test fails occasionally due to an uninitialized
string on an error path.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Don Brady <don.brady@delphix.com>
Closes#7869
This extends our sysfs '/sys/module/zfs' entry to include feature
and property attributes. The primary consumer of this information
is user processes, like the zfs CLI, that need to know what the
current loaded ZFS module supports. The libzfs binary will consult
this information when instantiating the zfs and zpool property
tables and the pool features table.
This introduces 4 kernel objects (dirs) into '/sys/module/zfs'
with corresponding attributes (files):
features.runtime
features.pool
properties.dataset
properties.pool
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Don Brady <don.brady@delphix.com>
Closes#7706
