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When the eviction thread goes to shrink an ARC state, it allocates a set of marker buffers used to hold its place in the state's sublists. This can be problematic in low memory conditions, since 1) the allocation can be substantial, as we allocate NCPU markers; 2) on at least FreeBSD, page reclamation can block in arc_wait_for_eviction() In particular, in stress tests it's possible to hit a deadlock on FreeBSD when the number of free pages is very low, wherein the system is waiting for the page daemon to reclaim memory, the page daemon is waiting for the ARC eviction thread to finish, and the ARC eviction thread is blocked waiting for more memory. Try to reduce the likelihood of such deadlocks by pre-allocating markers for the eviction thread at ARC initialization time. When evicting buffers from an ARC state, check to see if the current thread is the ARC eviction thread, and use the pre-allocated markers for that purpose rather than dynamically allocating them. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Reviewed-by: George Amanakis <gamanakis@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org> Closes #12985
OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community. This repository contains the code for running OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD.
Official Resources
- Documentation - for using and developing this repo
- ZoL Site - Linux release info & links
- Mailing lists
- OpenZFS site - for conference videos and info on other platforms (illumos, OSX, Windows, etc)
Installation
Full documentation for installing OpenZFS on your favorite operating system can be found at the Getting Started Page.
Contribute & Develop
We have a separate document with contribution guidelines.
We have a Code of Conduct.
Release
OpenZFS is released under a CDDL license.
For more details see the NOTICE, LICENSE and COPYRIGHT files; UCRL-CODE-235197
Supported Kernels
- The
METAfile contains the officially recognized supported Linux kernel versions. - Supported FreeBSD versions are any supported branches and releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE.