Reviewed by: Bayard Bell <buffer.g.overflow@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Alek Pinchuk <alek@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Simon Klinkert <simon.klinkert@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Author: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
illumos/illumos-gate@46e1baa6cfhttps://www.illumos.org/issues/5911
Sometimes ZFS appears to hang while deleting a file. It is actually
making slow progress at the file deletion, but other operations
(administrative and writes via the data path) "hang" until the file
removal completes, which can take a long time if the file has many
blocks. The deletion (or most of it) happens in a single txg, and the
sync thread spends most of its time reading indirect blocks via this
stack trace:
swtch+0x141()
cv_wait+0x70()
zio_wait+0x5b()
dbuf_read+0x2c0()
free_children+0x50()
free_children+0x12a()
free_children+0x12a()
free_children+0x12a()
dnode_sync_free_range_impl+0xdf()
dnode_sync_free_range+0x52()
range_tree_vacate+0x65()
dnode_sync+0x1d8()
dmu_objset_sync_dnodes+0x77()
dmu_objset_sync+0x19f()
dsl_dataset_sync+0x51()
dsl_pool_sync+0x9a()
spa_sync+0x2ff()
txg_sync_thread+0x21f()
thread_start+8()
One way to reproduce the problem is if we are over the arc_meta_limit,
e.g. because lots of indirect blocks are pinned because we have L0
dbufs under them. It could be that most of the L1 indirects are cached,
in which case when dmu_free_long_range_impl() calls dmu_tx_hold_free(),
it will complete very quickly. This allows dmu_free_long_range_impl() to
put many (perhaps all of its) transactions in the same TXG. However,
dmu_free_long_range_impl() calls dnode_evict_dbufs (and
dnode_free_range()), which removes the L0 dbufs, thus reducing the hold
count on the L1 indirect blocks above it, allowing them to be evicted.
Because we are over the arc_meta_limit(), these L1 blocks will be
evicted ASAP. Thus when we get to syncing context, the L1 indirects are
no longer cached and must be read in.
Obtained from: illumos
MFC after: 15 days
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