Commit r345200 (new ARC reclamation threads) looks suspicious to me - second potential problem

Mark Johnston markj at freebsd.org
Mon May 20 16:42:19 UTC 2019


On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 07:05:07PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> 
>  I'm looking at last commit to
> 'sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c' (r345200) and
> have another question.
> 
>  Here are such code:
> 
> 4960 	        /*
> 4961 	         * Kick off asynchronous kmem_reap()'s of all our caches.
> 4962 	         */
> 4963 	        arc_kmem_reap_soon();
> 4964 	
> 4965 	        /*
> 4966 	         * Wait at least arc_kmem_cache_reap_retry_ms between
> 4967 	         * arc_kmem_reap_soon() calls. Without this check it is
> possible to
> 4968 	         * end up in a situation where we spend lots of time reaping
> 4969 	         * caches, while we're near arc_c_min.  Waiting here also
> gives the
> 4970 	         * subsequent free memory check a chance of finding that the
> 4971 	         * asynchronous reap has already freed enough memory, and
> we don't
> 4972 	         * need to call arc_reduce_target_size().
> 4973 	         */
> 4974 	        delay((hz * arc_kmem_cache_reap_retry_ms + 999) / 1000);
> 4975 	
> 
>  But looks like `arc_kmem_reap_soon()` is synchronous on FreeBSD! So,
> this `delay()` looks very wrong. Am I right?
> 
>   Looks like it should be `#ifdef illumos`.

See also r338142, which I believe was reverted by the update.


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