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FreeBSD r256956: Improve ZFS N-way mirror read performance by using l…
…oad and locality information. The existing algorithm selects a preferred leaf vdev based on offset of the zio request modulo the number of members in the mirror. It assumes the devices are of equal performance and that spreading the requests randomly over both drives will be sufficient to saturate them. In practice this results in the leaf vdevs being under utilized. The new algorithm takes into the following additional factors: * Load of the vdevs (number outstanding I/O requests) * The locality of last queued I/O vs the new I/O request. Within the locality calculation additional knowledge about the underlying vdev is considered such as; is the device backing the vdev a rotating media device. This results in performance increases across the board as well as significant increases for predominantly streaming loads and for configurations which don't have evenly performing devices. The following are results from a setup with 3 Way Mirror with 2 x HD's and 1 x SSD from a basic test running multiple parrallel dd's. With pre-fetch disabled (vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1): == Stripe Balanced (default) == Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 161 seconds @ 95 MB/s == Load Balanced (zfslinux) == Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 297 seconds @ 51 MB/s == Load Balanced (locality freebsd) == Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 54 seconds @ 284 MB/s With pre-fetch enabled (vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0): == Stripe Balanced (default) == Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 91 seconds @ 168 MB/s == Load Balanced (zfslinux) == Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 108 seconds @ 142 MB/s == Load Balanced (locality freebsd) == Read 15360MB using bs: 1048576, readers: 3, took 48 seconds @ 320 MB/s In addition to the performance changes the code was also restructured, with the help of Justin Gibbs, to provide a more logical flow which also ensures vdevs loads are only calculated from the set of valid candidates. The following additional sysctls where added to allow the administrator to tune the behaviour of the load algorithm: * vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.rotating_inc * vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.rotating_seek_inc * vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.rotating_seek_offset * vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.non_rotating_inc * vfs.zfs.vdev.mirror.non_rotating_seek_inc These changes where based on work started by the zfsonlinux developers: openzfs#1487 Reviewed by: gibbs, mav, will MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: Multiplay Porting notes: - The tunables were adjusted to have ZoL-style names. - The code was modified to use ZoL's vd_nonrot. - Fixes were done to make cstyle.pl happy - Merge conflicts were handled manually - freebsd/freebsd-src@e186f56 by my collegue Andriy Gapon has been included. It applied perfectly, but added a cstyle regression. - This replaces 556011d entirely. - vdev_mirror_shift from OpenSolaris was missing from our code, so it has been added. - A typo "IO'a" has been corrected to say "IO's" Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
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