Commit r345200 (new ARC reclamation threads) looks suspicious to me.

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 5 12:09:01 UTC 2019


Hello Slawa,

Friday, May 31, 2019, 6:12:02 PM, you wrote:

> What about arc_no_grow, for example?
> arc_no_grow set in arc_reap_cb_check(), called from arc_reap_zthr
> thread and in arc_lowmem().
> arc_no_grow test in arc_adapt(), called from
> arc_read()/arc_get_data_impl() called from many unsynced thread.

> How synced visibility of this varibale?
 I don;t like this one either. It is set under mutex (t->zthr_lock of reap
thread/timer), but looks like tit is read by many other threads... And
`arc_lowmem()` uses `arc_adjust_lock`...


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 Lev                            mailto:lev at FreeBSD.org



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