After some ZIL changes 6 years ago zil_slog_limit got partially broken

due to zl_itx_list_sz not updated when async itx'es upgraded to sync.
Actually because of other changes about that time zl_itx_list_sz is not
really required to implement the functionality, so this patch removes
some unneeded broken code and variables.

Original idea of zil_slog_limit was to reduce chance of SLOG abuse by
single heavy logger, that increased latency for other (more latency critical)
loggers, by pushing heavy log out into the main pool instead of SLOG. Beside
huge latency increase for heavy writers, this implementation caused double
write of all data, since the log records were explicitly prepared for SLOG.
Since we now have I/O scheduler, I've found it can be much more efficient
to reduce priority of heavy logger SLOG writes from ZIO_PRIORITY_SYNC_WRITE
to ZIO_PRIORITY_ASYNC_WRITE, while still leave them on SLOG.

Existing ZIL implementation had problem with space efficiency when it
has to write large chunks of data into log blocks of limited size. In some
cases efficiency stopped to almost as low as 50%. In case of ZIL stored on
spinning rust, that also reduced log write speed in half, since head had to
uselessly fly over allocated but not written areas. This change improves
the situation by offloading problematic operations from z*_log_write() to
zil_lwb_commit(), which knows real situation of log blocks allocation and
can split large requests into pieces much more efficiently. Also as side
effect it removes one of two data copy operations done by ZIL code WR_COPIED
case.

While there, untangle and unify code of z*_log_write() functions.
Also zfs_log_write() alike to zvol_log_write() can now handle writes crossing
block boundary, that may also improve efficiency if ZPL is made to do that.

Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zil_impl.h b/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zil_impl.h
index ac908bd322ef..a1ed9e58d120 100644
--- a/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zil_impl.h
+++ b/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zil_impl.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ extern "C" {
 typedef struct lwb {
 	zilog_t		*lwb_zilog;	/* back pointer to log struct */
 	blkptr_t	lwb_blk;	/* on disk address of this log blk */
+	boolean_t	lwb_slog;	/* lwb_blk is on SLOG device */
 	int		lwb_nused;	/* # used bytes in buffer */
 	int		lwb_sz;		/* size of block and buffer */
 	char		*lwb_buf;	/* log write buffer */
@@ -62,7 +63,6 @@ typedef struct itxs {
 typedef struct itxg {
 	kmutex_t	itxg_lock;	/* lock for this structure */
 	uint64_t	itxg_txg;	/* txg for this chain */
-	uint64_t	itxg_sod;	/* total size on disk for this txg */
 	itxs_t		*itxg_itxs;	/* sync and async itxs */
 } itxg_t;
 
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ struct zilog {
 	kcondvar_t	zl_cv_batch[2];	/* batch condition variables */
 	itxg_t		zl_itxg[TXG_SIZE]; /* intent log txg chains */
 	list_t		zl_itx_commit_list; /* itx list to be committed */
-	uint64_t	zl_itx_list_sz;	/* total size of records on list */
 	uint64_t	zl_cur_used;	/* current commit log size used */
 	list_t		zl_lwb_list;	/* in-flight log write list */
 	kmutex_t	zl_vdev_lock;	/* protects zl_vdev_tree */
@@ -142,6 +141,8 @@ typedef struct zil_bp_node {
 
 #define	ZIL_MAX_LOG_DATA (SPA_OLD_MAXBLOCKSIZE - sizeof (zil_chain_t) - \
     sizeof (lr_write_t))
+#define	ZIL_MAX_COPIED_DATA \
+    ((SPA_OLD_MAXBLOCKSIZE - sizeof (zil_chain_t)) / 2 - sizeof (lr_write_t))
 
 #ifdef	__cplusplus
 }