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Date:      Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:28:16 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kip Macy <kmacy@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r205231 - in head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs: . sys
Message-ID:  <20100320122816.GG1733@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20100320110219.GD1733@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <201003162217.o2GMHMjU012285@svn.freebsd.org> <20100320110219.GD1733@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:02:19PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:17:22PM +0000, Kip Macy wrote:
> > Author: kmacy
> > Date: Tue Mar 16 22:17:21 2010
> > New Revision: 205231
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205231
> >=20
> > Log:
> >   - reduce contention by breaking up ARC state locks in to 16 for data
> >     and 16 for metadata
> >   - export L2ARC tunables as sysctls
> >   - add several kstats to track L2ARC state more precisely
> >   - avoid holding a contended lock when atomically incrementing a
> >     contended counter (no lock protection needed for atomics)
>=20
> Kip, don't get me wrong, I appreciate you're working on ZFS, but...
>=20
> I'm still working on ZFS, trying hard to bring it up-to-date and such
> invasive changes don't make it easier.
>=20
> I'm not against invasive changes in general, but I want them to be
> reviewed and tested properly. We discussed this multiple times and I
> thought the consensus was to provide hard number and workload examples
> that will prove the change really helps. And if it helps, present the
> finding to Sun/Oracle guys to get the changes into OpenSolaris, which is
> good for everyone: OpenSolaris gets faster ZFS, FreeBSD gets less pain
> in keeping ZFS up-to-date.
>=20
> Can I ask you to prepare description of the workload it helps, benchmark
> it and present the numbers on zfs-code@opensolaris.org?
>=20
> The ZFS team is built from really smart and mature developers. I'm sure
> that if the change is properly described with prove included they will
> accept it and the world will be a bit better place to live for everyone.

Take a look at:

	http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=3D6581122

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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