txg_kick() fails to see that we are quiescing, forcing transactions to
their next stages without leaving them accumulate changes
Creating a fragmented pool in a DCenter VM and continuously writing to it with
multiple instances of randwritecomp, we get the following output from txg.d:
0ms 311MB in 4114ms (95% p1) 75MB/s 544MB (76%) 336us 153ms 0ms
0ms 8MB in 51ms ( 0% p1) 163MB/s 474MB (66%) 129us 34ms 0ms
0ms 366MB in 4454ms (93% p1) 82MB/s 572MB (79%) 498us 20ms 0ms
0ms 406MB in 5212ms (95% p1) 77MB/s 591MB (82%) 661us 37ms 0ms
0ms 340MB in 5110ms (94% p1) 66MB/s 622MB (86%) 1048us 41ms 1ms
0ms 3MB in 61ms ( 0% p1) 51MB/s 419MB (58%) 33us 0ms 0ms
0ms 361MB in 3555ms (88% p1) 101MB/s 542MB (75%) 335us 40ms 0ms
0ms 356MB in 4592ms (92% p1) 77MB/s 561MB (78%) 430us 89ms 1ms
0ms 11MB in 129ms (13% p1) 90MB/s 507MB (70%) 222us 15ms 0ms
0ms 281MB in 2520ms (89% p1) 111MB/s 542MB (75%) 334us 42ms 0ms
0ms 383MB in 3666ms (91% p1) 104MB/s 557MB (77%) 411us 133ms 0ms
0ms 404MB in 5757ms (94% p1) 70MB/s 635MB (88%) 1274us 123ms 2ms
4ms 367MB in 4172ms (89% p1) 88MB/s 556MB (77%) 401us 51ms 0ms
0ms 42MB in 470ms (44% p1) 90MB/s 557MB (77%) 412us 43ms 0ms
0ms 261MB in 2273ms (88% p1) 114MB/s 556MB (77%) 407us 27ms 0ms
0ms 394MB in 3646ms (85% p1) 108MB/s 552MB (77%) 393us 304ms 0ms
0ms 275MB in 2416ms (89% p1) 113MB/s 510MB (71%) 200us 53ms 0ms
0ms 9MB in 53ms ( 0% p1) 169MB/s 483MB (67%) 140us 100ms 1ms
The TXGs that are getting synced and don't have lots of changes are pushed by
txg_kick() which basically forces the current open txg to get to the quiesced
state:
if (tx->tx_syncing_txg == 0 &&
tx->tx_quiesce_txg_waiting <= tx->tx_open_txg &&
tx->tx_sync_txg_waiting <= tx->tx_synced_txg &&
tx->tx_quiesced_txg <= tx->tx_synced_txg) {
tx->tx_quiesce_txg_waiting = tx->tx_open_txg + 1;
cv_broadcast(&tx->tx_quiesce_more_cv);
}
The problem is that the above code doesn't check if we are currently quiescing
anything (only if a quiesce or a sync has been requested, ..etc) so the
following scenario can happen:
1] We have an open txg A that had enough dirty data (more than
zfs_dirty_data_sync) and it was pushed to the quiesced state, and opened
a new txg B. No txg is currently being synced.
2] Immediately after the opening of B, txg_kick() was run by some other write
(and because of A's dirty data) and saw that we are not currently syncing
any txg and no one has requested quiescing so it requests one by bumping
tx_quiesce_txg_waiting and broadcasts the quiesce thread.
3] The quiesce thread just passed txg A to be synced and sees that a quiescing
request has been sent to it so it immediately grabs B without letting it
gather enough data, putting it in a quiesced state and opening a new txg C.
In this scenario txg B, is an example of how the entries of interest show up in
the txg.d output.
Ideally we would like txg_kick() to get triggered only when we are sure that
we are not syncing AND not quiescing any txg. This way we can kick an open TXG
to the quiescing state when we are sure that there is nothing going on and we
would benefit from the different states running concurrently.
Authored by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Brad Lewis <brad.lewis@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@joyent.com>
Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
OpenZFS-issue: https://illumos.org/issues/9464
OpenZFS-commit: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/commit/1cd7635bCloses#7587
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