From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 09:14:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A14106564A; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:14:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pawel@dawidek.net) Received: from mx2.wheel.pl (grom.wheel.pl [91.121.70.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E02A8FC13; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:14:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.whl (wheel-vpn [9.1.1.6]) by mx2.wheel.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB812AF; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:58:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (pdawidek.whl [10.0.1.1]) by mx1.whl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7B91B2EA; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:56:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:57:56 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Attila Nagy Message-ID: <20110110085756.GA1744@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <4D0A09AF.3040005@FreeBSD.org> <4D1F7008.3050506@fsn.hu> <4D29A198.4070107@fsn.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D29A198.4070107@fsn.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT amd64 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Artem Belevich Subject: Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:14:30 -0000 --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:52:56PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: [...] > I've finally found the time to read the v28 patch and figured out the=20 > problem: vfs.zfs.l2arc_noprefetch was changed to 1, so it doesn't use=20 > the prefetched data on the L2ARC devices. > This is a major hit in my case. Enabling this again restored the=20 > previous hit rates and lowered the load on the hard disks significantly. Well, not storing prefetched data on L2ARC vdevs is the default is Solaris. For some reason it was changed by kmacy@ in r205231. Not sure why and we can't ask him now, I'm afraid. I just sent an e-mail to Brendan Gregg from Oracle who originally implemented L2ARC in ZFS why this is turned off by default. Once I get answer we can think about turning it on again. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk0qyhMACgkQForvXbEpPzT7qACeM1nQ4x8dyLpt81dkOLtwBeCn H4wAn3qFwe2SESI5WQ3JMPjreqx5krnb =Knhp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--