When doing a read from disk, ZFS creates 3 ZIO's: a zio_null(), the
logical zio_read(), and then a physical zio. Currently, each of these
results in a separate taskq_dispatch(zio_execute).
On high-read-iops workloads, this causes a significant performance
impact. By processing all 3 ZIO's in a single taskq entry, we reduce the
overhead on taskq locking and context switching. We accomplish this by
allowing zio_done() to return a "next zio to execute" to zio_execute().
This results in a ~12% performance increase for random reads, from
96,000 iops to 108,000 iops (with recordsize=8k, on SSD's).
Reviewed by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
External-issue: DLPX-59292
Closes#7736zfsonlinux/zfs@62840030a7
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