9a625bd31c
7448 ZFS doesn't notice when disk vdevs have no write cache
illumos/illumos-gate@295438ba32
295438ba32
https://www.illumos.org/issues/7448
I built a SmartOS image with all the NVMe commits including 7372
(support NVMe volatile write cache) and repeated my dd testing:
> #!/bin/bash
> for i in `seq 1 1000`; do
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file00 bs=1M count=102400 oflag=sync &
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file01 bs=1M count=102400 oflag=sync &
> wait
> rm file00 file01
> done
>
Previously each dd command took ~145 seconds to finish, now it takes
~400 seconds.
Eventually I figured out it is 7372 that causes unnecessary
nvme_bd_sync() executions which wasted CPU cycles.
If a NVMe device doesn't support a write cache, the nvme_bd_sync function will
return ENOTSUP to indicate this to upper layers.
It seems this returned value is ignored by ZFS, and as such this bug is not
really specific to NVMe. In vdev_disk_io_start() ZFS sends the flush to the
disk driver (blkdev) with a callback to vdev_disk_ioctl_done(). As nvme filled
in the bd_sync_cache function pointer, blkdev will not return ENOTSUP, as the
nvme driver in general does support cache flush. Instead it will issue an
asynchronous flush to nvme and immediately return 0, and hence ZFS will not set
vdev_nowritecache here. The nvme driver will at some point process the cache
flush command, and if there is no write cache on the device it will return
ENOTSUP, which will be delivered to the vdev_disk_ioctl_done() callback. This
function will not check the error code and not set nowritecache.
The right place to check the error code from the cache flush is in
zio_vdev_io_assess(). This would catch both cases, synchronous and asynchronous
cache flushes. This would also be independent of the implementation detail that
some drivers can return ENOTSUP immediately.
Reviewed by: Dan Fields <dan.fields@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Alek Pinchuk <alek.pinchuk@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Author: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@nexenta.com>
Obtained from: Illumos
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