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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:24:50 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Artem Belevich <fbsdlist@src.cx>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org, Ben Kelly <ben@wanderview.com>
Subject:   Re: Still getting kmem exhausted panic
Message-ID:  <4CA2E9C2.3030806@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=aZp=46pHn9NtYsKBbMq1JwxPKb1D3o3Wngy1V@mail.gmail.com>
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on 29/09/2010 03:38 Artem Belevich said the following:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
>> BTW, have you seen my posts about UMA and ZFS on hackers@ ?
>> I found it advantageous to use UMA for ZFS I/O buffers, but only after reducing
>> size of per-CPU caches for the zones with large-sized items.
>> I further modified the code in my local tree to completely disable per-CPU
>> caches for items > 32KB.
> 
> Do you have updated patch disabling per-cpu caches for large items?
> I've just rebuilt FreeBSD-8 with your uma-2.diff (it needed r209050
> from -head to compile) and so far things look good. I'll re-enable UMA
> for ZFS and see how it flies in a couple of days.

I've just uploaded uma-3.diff.
It implements what uma-1.diff did, plus totally skips per-CPU caches for items >
32KB, and also has code from uma-2.diff for flushing per-CPU caches on
significant memory shortage.

Will appreciate your feedback.
Thank you for testing!

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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