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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2019 19:19:45 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        lev@FreeBSD.org, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Commit r345200 (new ARC reclamation threads) looks suspicious to me - second potential problem
Message-ID:  <20190522161945.GE47119@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <2a50e192-e672-7c87-178b-afd509a765df@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <369cb1e9-f36a-a558-6941-23b9b811825a@FreeBSD.org> <20190520164202.GA2130@spy> <28c7430b-fb7c-6472-5c1b-fa3ff63a9e73@FreeBSD.org> <94d051a3-3427-7a5b-efe7-169cff2265d3@FreeBSD.org> <2a50e192-e672-7c87-178b-afd509a765df@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:07:29PM -0400, Alexander Motin wrote:

> On 22.05.2019 11:50, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> > On 22.05.2019 18:19, Alexander Motin wrote:
> > 
> >>>>  But looks like `arc_kmem_reap_soon()` is synchronous on FreeBSD! So,
> >>>> this `delay()` looks very wrong. Am I right?
> >>
> >> Why is it wrong?
> >  One second pause after synchronous operation to wait it completion?
> 
> No.  To rate-throttle them.  This gives UMA a second to get back into
> minimally steady state after we ripped all caches from it.  As I have
> told, we do not want to drain caches constantly in a tight loop, we want
> more or less steady state.

And also (posible) additionaly delay arc_get_data_impl().
This is incorrectly throttling implementation.



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