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Kirk McKusick 28702816d8 A performance problem was reported in PR kern/181226:
I have 25TB Dell PERC 6 RAID5 array. When it becomes almost
    full (10-20GB free), processes which write data to it start
    eating 100% CPU and write speed drops below 1MB/sec (normally
    to gives 400MB/sec). The revision at which it first became
    apparent was http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/249782.

The offending change reserved an area in each cylinder group to
store metadata. The new algorithm attempts to save this area for
metadata and allows its use for non-metadata only after all the
data areas have been exhausted. The size of the reserved area
defaults to half of minfree, so the filesystem reports full before
the data area can completely fill. However, in this report, the
filesystem has had minfree reduced to 1% thus forcing the metadata
area to be used for data. As the filesystem approached full, it
had only metadata areas left to allocate. The result was that
every block allocation had to scan summary data for 30,000 cylinder
groups before falling back to searching up to 30,000 metadata areas.

The fix is to give up on saving the metadata areas once the free
space reserve drops below 2%. The effect of this change is to use
the old algorithm of just accepting the first available block that
we find. Since most filesystems use the default 5% minfree, this
will have no effect on their operation. For those that want to push
to the limit, they will get their crappy block placements quickly.

Submitted by:  Dmitry Sivachenko
Fix Tested by: Dmitry Sivachenko
PR:            kern/181226
MFC after:     2 weeks
2013-08-28 17:38:05 +00:00
bin Add the ability to display the default FIB number for a process to the 2013-08-26 23:48:21 +00:00
cddl Build all ZFS testing & debugging tools with -g. 2013-08-27 04:01:31 +00:00
contrib Make the PAM password strength checking module WARNS=2 safe. 2013-08-27 15:50:26 +00:00
crypto Apply upstream revision 1.151 (fix relative symlinks) 2013-08-13 09:06:18 +00:00
etc After writing a kernel core dump into /var/crash, call sync(8). 2013-08-28 15:12:15 +00:00
games Remove a reference to instant-server which has been removed from the 2013-03-21 12:42:25 +00:00
gnu Teach libstdc++ about logl(3). 2013-08-13 20:28:21 +00:00
include Implement fdclosedir(3) function, which is equivalent to the closedir(3) 2013-08-18 20:11:34 +00:00
kerberos5 Fix the getpwnam_r() call in the pname_to_uid() kerberos library function so 2013-05-02 12:52:49 +00:00
lib * Whitespace. 2013-08-28 16:59:55 +00:00
libexec Revert r253748,253749 2013-07-28 18:44:17 +00:00
release Fix 'make release' on older hosts: use buildworld legacy utilities. 2013-08-27 04:42:42 +00:00
rescue - Trim an unused and bogus Makefile for mount_smbfs. 2013-06-28 21:00:08 +00:00
sbin Add missing newlines to Fibre Channel attributes output. 2013-08-27 06:50:46 +00:00
secure Remove references to MK_IDEA. 2013-04-27 05:44:39 +00:00
share mdoc fix 2013-08-28 05:12:29 +00:00
sys A performance problem was reported in PR kern/181226: 2013-08-28 17:38:05 +00:00
tools Formally remove WITH_BSDCONFIG build option and re-generate src.conf.5 2013-08-27 16:30:50 +00:00
usr.bin fix up my copyright and remove third clause.. 2013-08-26 18:51:48 +00:00
usr.sbin Allow single byte reads of the emulated MSI-X tables. This is not required 2013-08-27 16:50:48 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Vendor import of Bind 9.9.3-P2 2013-08-14 11:10:02 +00:00
LOCKS Test commit to make sure commit mail works after moving the server. 2012-12-29 16:03:23 +00:00
MAINTAINERS Add myself as maintainer for nvme(4), nvd(4) and nvmecontrol(8). 2013-07-31 18:18:02 +00:00
Makefile Don't let user specified DESTDIR, break building our chosen make. 2013-08-17 04:41:35 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Update nvi-1.79 to 2.1.1-4334a8297f 2013-08-11 20:03:12 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Add more obsolete files. 2013-08-26 17:21:40 +00:00
README Vendor import of Bind 9.9.3-P2 2013-08-14 11:10:02 +00:00
UPDATING Add note/reminder about dialog(1) regression in HEAD/10.0-C so that we don't 2013-08-27 16:10:44 +00:00

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