Fix inaccurate arcstat_l2_hdr_size calculations

Based on the comments in arc.c we know that buffers can exist both
in arc and l2arc, under this circumstance both arc_buf_hdr_t and
l2arc_buf_hdr_t will be allocated. However the current logic only
cares for memory that l2arc_buf_hdr takes up when the buffer's
state transfers from or to arc_l2c_only. This will cause obvious
deviations for illumos's zfs version since the sizeof(l2arc_buf_hdr)
is larger than ZOL's. We can implement the calcuation in the
following simple way:

1. When allocate a l2arc_buf_hdr_t we add its memory consumption
   instantly and subtract it when we free or evict the l2arc buf.
2. According to l2arc_hdr_stat_add and l2arc_hdr_stat_remove, if
   the buffer only stays in l2arc we should also add the memory
   its arc_buf_hdr_t consumes, so we only need to add HDR_SIZE to
   arcstat_l2_hdr_size since we already concerned with L2HDR_SIZE
   in step 1 and the same for transfering arc bufs from l2arc only
   state.

The testbox has 2 4-core Intel Xeon CPUs(2.13GHz), with 16GB memory
and tests were set upped in the following way:

1. Fdisked a SATA disk into two partitions, one partition for zpool
   storage and the other one was used as the cache device.
2. Generated some files occupying 14GB altogether in the zpool
   prepared in step 1 using iozone.
3. Read them all using md5sum and watched the l2arc related statistics
   in /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats. After the reading ended the
   l2_hdr_size and l2_size were shown like this:

      l2_size             4       4403780608
      l2_hdr_size         4       0

   which was weird.

4. After applying this patch and reran step 1-3, the results were
   as following:

      l2_size             4       4306443264
      l2_hdr_size         4       535600

   these numbers made sense, on 64-bit systems the
   sizeof(l2arc_buf_hdr_t) is 16 bytes.  Assue all blocks cached by
   l2arc are 128KB, so 535600/16*128*1024=4387635200, since not all
   blocks are equal-sized, the theoretical result will be a little
   bigger, as we can see.

Since I'm familiar with systemtap instrumentation tool I used it to
examine what had happened. The script looked like this:

probe module("zfs").function("arc_chage_state")
{
	if ($new_state == $arc_l2_only)
		printf("change arc buf to arc_l2_only\n")
}

It will print out some information each time we call funciton
arc_chage_state if the argument new_state is arc_l2_only.  I
gathered the trace logs and found that none of the arc bufs ran
into arc state arc_l2_only when the tests was running, this was
the reason why l2_hdr_size in step 3 was 0. The arc bufs fell into
arc_l2_only when the pool or the filesystem was offlined.

Signed-off-by: Ying Zhu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/module/zfs/arc.c b/module/zfs/arc.c
index df3aeb734..3fd4fa061 100644
--- a/module/zfs/arc.c
+++ b/module/zfs/arc.c
@@ -1545,6 +1545,7 @@ arc_hdr_destroy(arc_buf_hdr_t *hdr)
 			list_remove(l2hdr->b_dev->l2ad_buflist, hdr);
 			ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_l2_size, -hdr->b_size);
 			kmem_free(l2hdr, sizeof (l2arc_buf_hdr_t));
+			arc_space_return(L2HDR_SIZE, ARC_SPACE_L2HDRS);
 			if (hdr->b_state == arc_l2c_only)
 				l2arc_hdr_stat_remove();
 			hdr->b_l2hdr = NULL;
@@ -3443,6 +3444,7 @@ arc_release(arc_buf_t *buf, void *tag)
 	if (l2hdr) {
 		list_remove(l2hdr->b_dev->l2ad_buflist, hdr);
 		kmem_free(l2hdr, sizeof (l2arc_buf_hdr_t));
+		arc_space_return(L2HDR_SIZE, ARC_SPACE_L2HDRS);
 		ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_l2_size, -buf_size);
 		mutex_exit(&l2arc_buflist_mtx);
 	}
@@ -4142,14 +4144,14 @@ l2arc_write_interval(clock_t began, uint64_t wanted, uint64_t wrote)
 static void
 l2arc_hdr_stat_add(void)
 {
-	ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_l2_hdr_size, HDR_SIZE + L2HDR_SIZE);
+	ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_l2_hdr_size, HDR_SIZE);
 	ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_hdr_size, -HDR_SIZE);
 }
 
 static void
 l2arc_hdr_stat_remove(void)
 {
-	ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_l2_hdr_size, -(HDR_SIZE + L2HDR_SIZE));
+	ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_l2_hdr_size, -HDR_SIZE);
 	ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_hdr_size, HDR_SIZE);
 }
 
@@ -4293,6 +4295,7 @@ l2arc_write_done(zio_t *zio)
 			abl2 = ab->b_l2hdr;
 			ab->b_l2hdr = NULL;
 			kmem_free(abl2, sizeof (l2arc_buf_hdr_t));
+			arc_space_return(L2HDR_SIZE, ARC_SPACE_L2HDRS);
 			ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_l2_size, -ab->b_size);
 		}
 
@@ -4539,6 +4542,7 @@ top:
 				abl2 = ab->b_l2hdr;
 				ab->b_l2hdr = NULL;
 				kmem_free(abl2, sizeof (l2arc_buf_hdr_t));
+				arc_space_return(L2HDR_SIZE, ARC_SPACE_L2HDRS);
 				ARCSTAT_INCR(arcstat_l2_size, -ab->b_size);
 			}
 			list_remove(buflist, ab);
@@ -4664,6 +4668,7 @@ l2arc_write_buffers(spa_t *spa, l2arc_dev_t *dev, uint64_t target_sz)
 			                    KM_PUSHPAGE);
 			hdrl2->b_dev = dev;
 			hdrl2->b_daddr = dev->l2ad_hand;
+			arc_space_consume(L2HDR_SIZE, ARC_SPACE_L2HDRS);
 
 			ab->b_flags |= ARC_L2_WRITING;
 			ab->b_l2hdr = hdrl2;