Hours of tiny transfers at the end of a ZFS resilver?

[Steven Hartland]

On 16/02/2016 03:31, Ravi Pokala wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:08:43 +0000
>> From: Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
>> To: freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Hours of tiny transfers at the end of a ZFS resilver?
>> Message-ID: <56C23E5B.7060207 at multiplay.co.uk>
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> Hi Steve,
>
>>> [*] This is probably a good segue into discussing why we even have the ADA_Q_4K quirk, and whether we should get rid of it...? --rp
>> The 4k quirks exists because a large amount of devices don't report 4k correctly instead just reporting 512 for both logical and physical even when they are actually 4k or larger physical sector size.
> If true, that's a gross violation of ATA, and I would consider that a disqualifying firmware bug. After over a decade at a storage vendor, I've seen some *really* stupid firmware issues, but lying about the sector size would be a new low. :-(
>
> Are we sure that they are really, truly claiming to be 512n rather than AF-512e, rather than us mis-parsing the sector sizes due to the aforementioned kernel bugs? If someone running -CURRENT has a drive which has the ADA_Q_4K quirk, could you paste the output of `geom disk list $DRIVE'?
>
My head box doesn't have the feature that would do what you're after but 
here's what camcontrol says for one such device:
camcontrol identify ada0
pass1: <Corsair Force GS 5.05A> ATA8-ACS SATA 3.x device
pass1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)

protocol              ATA/ATAPI-8 SATA 3.x
device model          Corsair Force GS
firmware revision     5.05A
serial number         1304790400009741003E
WWN                   0000000000000000
cylinders             16383
heads                 16
sectors/track         63
sector size           logical 512, physical 512, offset 0
LBA supported         250069680 sectors
LBA48 supported       250069680 sectors
PIO supported         PIO4
DMA supported         WDMA2 UDMA6
media RPM             non-rotating

This is 4k underlying, SSD's are by far and away the worst culprits for 
this.

     Regards
     Steve