Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 02:42:25 +0100 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Bryan Venteicher" <bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Change uma_mtx to rwlock Message-ID: <CF61374E89D8461093CEDB42D4FCBABE@multiplay.co.uk> References: <CAMo0n6Q=P5H3%2BCqr8KjFRVLvWHZfJYnROVe4xF3DmKw95D%2B5zQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Out of interest does that include ZFS and its UMA zones, as we're currently
investigating issues around this.
Regards
Steve
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From: "Bryan Venteicher" <bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org>
To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 1:59 AM
Subject: Change uma_mtx to rwlock
> Hi,
>
> I'd appreciate some comments attached patch that changes the uma_mtx to a
> rwlock.
>
> At $JOB, we have machines with ~400GB RAM, with much of that being
> allocated through UMA zones. We've observed that timeouts were sometimes
> unexpectedly delayed by a half second or more. We tracked one of the
> reasons for this down to when the page daemon was running, calling
> uma_reclaim() -> zone_foreach(). zone_foreach() holds the uma_mtx while
> zone_drain()'ing each zone. If uma_timeout() fires, it will block on the
> uma_mtx when it tries to zone_timeout() each zone.
>
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