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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:37:59 +0100
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <fbsd-mas-0@ml.turing-complete.org>
To:        Artem Belevich <art@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: slowdown of zfs (tx->tx)
Message-ID:  <20130116073759.GA47781@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAFqOu6jJnWdbikPmE1-UML5i_x7meF%2BiyY=9WBRyv2j7AeOaSg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20130111073417.GA95100@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <CAFqOu6gWpMsWN0pTBiv10WfwyGWMfO9GzMLWTtcVxHixr-_i3Q@mail.gmail.com> <20130114094010.GA75529@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <CAFqOu6hxfGt_M6Jo9qWeifDz9YnNc_Bd9H-GEe4RYtutaPvH5w@mail.gmail.com> <20130114195148.GA20540@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <CAFqOu6jwJ4qhbOovN_NhzusdQJvrbvUC3g93sziR=Uw99SGenw@mail.gmail.com> <20130114214652.GA76779@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <CAFqOu6jKX-Ks6C1RK5GwZ51ZVUSnGSe7S99_EfK%2BfwLPjAFFYw@mail.gmail.com> <20130115224556.GA41774@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de> <CAFqOu6jJnWdbikPmE1-UML5i_x7meF%2BiyY=9WBRyv2j7AeOaSg@mail.gmail.com>

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* Artem Belevich <art@freebsd.org> [2013-01-15 16:16 -0800]:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Nicolas Rachinsky
> <fbsd-mas-0@ml.turing-complete.org> wrote:
> >  147     0 100098 kernel           zio_write_issue_ mi_switch+0x176 sleepq_wait+0x42 _cv_wait+0x129 space_map_load_wait+0x20 metaslab_activate+0x73 metaslab_alloc+0x7b2 zio_dva_allocate+0x9a zio_execute+0xc3 taskqueue_run_locked+0x85 taskqueue_thread_loop+0x4e fork_exit+0x11f fork_trampoline+0xe
> 
> It appears that lots of threads are stuck in
> metaslab_activate->space_map_load_wait path. This sounds like CR#
> 6876962 in Solaris: "degraded write performance with threads held up
> by space_map_load_wait(). This bug is fixed in patch 147440-05, -06 or
> -07, which is current and contains the fix." Alas, I could not find
> specifics on how the issue got fixed and whether the same fix is
> present in illumos and FreeBSD.
> 
> You may want to update your system to very recent FreeBSD as quite a
> few fixes were recently imported from illumos. Hopefully it will deal
> with the issue. I'm out of ideas otherwise. Sorry.

Do you mean -CURRENT or -STABLE with very recent? Or just 9.1?

Thank you for your efforts!

Nicolas
-- 
http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas



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