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Overview ======== We parallelize the allocation process by creating the concept of "allocators". There are a certain number of allocators per metaslab group, defined by the value of a tunable at pool open time. Each allocator for a given metaslab group has up to 2 active metaslabs; one "primary", and one "secondary". The primary and secondary weight mean the same thing they did in in the pre-allocator world; primary metaslabs are used for most allocations, secondary metaslabs are used for ditto blocks being allocated in the same metaslab group. There is also the CLAIM weight, which has been separated out from the other weights, but that is less important to understanding the patch. The active metaslabs for each allocator are moved from their normal place in the metaslab tree for the group to the back of the tree. This way, they will not be selected for use by other allocators searching for new metaslabs unless all the passive metaslabs are unsuitable for allocations. If that does happen, the allocators will "steal" from each other to ensure that IOs don't fail until there is truly no space left to perform allocations. In addition, the alloc queue for each metaslab group has been broken into a separate queue for each allocator. We don't want to dramatically increase the number of inflight IOs on low-end systems, because it can significantly increase txg times. On the other hand, we want to ensure that there are enough IOs for each allocator to allow for good coalescing before sending the IOs to the disk. As a result, we take a compromise path; each allocator's alloc queue max depth starts at a certain value for every txg. Every time an IO completes, we increase the max depth. This should hopefully provide a good balance between the two failure modes, while not dramatically increasing complexity. We also parallelize the spa_alloc_tree and spa_alloc_lock, which cause very similar contention when selecting IOs to allocate. This parallelization uses the same allocator scheme as metaslab selection. Performance Results =================== Performance improvements from this change can vary significantly based on the number of CPUs in the system, whether or not the system has a NUMA architecture, the speed of the drives, the values for the various tunables, and the workload being performed. For an fio async sequential write workload on a 24 core NUMA system with 256 GB of RAM and 8 128 GB SSDs, there is a roughly 25% performance improvement. Future Work =========== Analysis of the performance of the system with this patch applied shows that a significant new bottleneck is the vdev disk queues, which also need to be parallelized. Prototyping of this change has occurred, and there was a performance improvement, but more work needs to be done before its stability has been verified and it is ready to be upstreamed. Authored by: Paul Dagnelie <pcd@delphix.com> Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com> Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com> Reviewed by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim.dimitro@delphix.com> Reviewed by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Reviewed by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Approved by: Gordon Ross <gwr@nexenta.com> Ported-by: Paul Dagnelie <pcd@delphix.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Dagnelie <pcd@delphix.com> Porting Notes: * Fix reservation test failures by increasing tolerance. OpenZFS-issue: https://illumos.org/issues/9112 OpenZFS-commit: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/commit/3f3cc3c3 Closes #7682 |
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ZFS Test Suite README
- Building and installing the ZFS Test Suite
The ZFS Test Suite runs under the test-runner framework. This framework is built along side the standard ZFS utilities and is included as part of zfs-test package. The zfs-test package can be built from source as follows:
$ ./configure
$ make pkg-utils
The resulting packages can be installed using the rpm or dpkg command as appropriate for your distributions. Alternately, if you have installed ZFS from a distributions repository (not from source) the zfs-test package may be provided for your distribution.
- Installed from source
$ rpm -ivh ./zfs-test*.rpm, or
$ dpkg -i ./zfs-test*.deb,
- Installed from package repository
$ yum install zfs-test
$ apt-get install zfs-test
- Running the ZFS Test Suite
The pre-requisites for running the ZFS Test Suite are:
- Three scratch disks
- Specify the disks you wish to use in the $DISKS variable, as a space delimited list like this: DISKS='vdb vdc vdd'. By default the zfs-tests.sh sciprt will construct three loopback devices to be used for testing: DISKS='loop0 loop1 loop2'.
- A non-root user with a full set of basic privileges and the ability to sudo(8) to root without a password to run the test.
- Specify any pools you wish to preserve as a space delimited list in the $KEEP variable. All pools detected at the start of testing are added automatically.
- The ZFS Test Suite will add users and groups to test machine to verify functionality. Therefore it is strongly advised that a dedicated test machine, which can be a VM, be used for testing.
Once the pre-requisites are satisfied simply run the zfs-tests.sh script:
$ /usr/share/zfs/zfs-tests.sh
Alternately, the zfs-tests.sh script can be run from the source tree to allow developers to rapidly validate their work. In this mode the ZFS utilities and modules from the source tree will be used (rather than those installed on the system). In order to avoid certain types of failures you will need to ensure the ZFS udev rules are installed. This can be done manually or by ensuring some version of ZFS is installed on the system.
$ ./scripts/zfs-tests.sh
The following zfs-tests.sh options are supported:
-v Verbose zfs-tests.sh output When specified additional
information describing the test environment will be logged
prior to invoking test-runner. This includes the runfile
being used, the DISKS targeted, pools to keep, etc.
-q Quiet test-runner output. When specified it is passed to
test-runner(1) which causes output to be written to the
console only for tests that do not pass and the results
summary.
-x Remove all testpools, dm, lo, and files (unsafe). When
specified the script will attempt to remove any leftover
configuration from a previous test run. This includes
destroying any pools named testpool, unused DM devices,
and loopback devices backed by file-vdevs. This operation
can be DANGEROUS because it is possible that the script
will mistakenly remove a resource not related to the testing.
-k Disable cleanup after test failure. When specified the
zfs-tests.sh script will not perform any additional cleanup
when test-runner exists. This is useful when the results of
a specific test need to be preserved for further analysis.
-f Use sparse files directly instread of loopback devices for
the testing. When running in this mode certain tests will
be skipped which depend on real block devices.
-c Only create and populate constrained path
-I NUM Number of iterations
-d DIR Create sparse files for vdevs in the DIR directory. By
default these files are created under /var/tmp/.
-s SIZE Use vdevs of SIZE (default: 4G)
-r RUNFILE Run tests in RUNFILE (default: linux.run)
-t PATH Run single test at PATH relative to test suite
-T TAGS Comma separated list of tags (default: 'functional')
-u USER Run single test as USER (default: root)
The ZFS Test Suite allows the user to specify a subset of the tests via a runfile or list of tags.
The format of the runfile is explained in test-runner(1), and the files that zfs-tests.sh uses are available for reference under /usr/share/zfs/runfiles. To specify a custom runfile, use the -r option:
$ /usr/share/zfs/zfs-tests.sh -r my_tests.run
Otherwise user can set needed tags to run only specific tests.
- Test results
While the ZFS Test Suite is running, one informational line is printed at the
end of each test, and a results summary is printed at the end of the run. The
results summary includes the location of the complete logs, which is logged in
the form /var/tmp/test_results/[ISO 8601 date]. A normal test run launched
with the zfs-tests.sh wrapper script will look something like this:
$ /usr/share/zfs/zfs-tests.sh -v -d /tmp/test
--- Configuration ---
Runfile: /usr/share/zfs/runfiles/linux.run
STF_TOOLS: /usr/share/zfs/test-runner
STF_SUITE: /usr/share/zfs/zfs-tests
STF_PATH: /var/tmp/constrained_path.G0Sf
FILEDIR: /tmp/test
FILES: /tmp/test/file-vdev0 /tmp/test/file-vdev1 /tmp/test/file-vdev2
LOOPBACKS: /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2
DISKS: loop0 loop1 loop2
NUM_DISKS: 3
FILESIZE: 4G
ITERATIONS: 1
TAGS: functional
Keep pool(s): rpool
/usr/share/zfs/test-runner/bin/test-runner.py -c /usr/share/zfs/runfiles/linux.run \
-T functional -i /usr/share/zfs/zfs-tests -I 1
Test: /usr/share/zfs/zfs-tests/tests/functional/arc/setup (run as root) [00:00] [PASS]
...more than 1100 additional tests...
Test: /usr/share/zfs/zfs-tests/tests/functional/zvol/zvol_swap/cleanup (run as root) [00:00] [PASS]
Results Summary
SKIP 52
PASS 1129
Running Time: 02:35:33
Percent passed: 95.6%
Log directory: /var/tmp/test_results/20180515T054509