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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