Allow metaslab to be unloaded even when not freed from

On large systems, the memory used by loaded metaslabs can become
a concern. While range trees are a fairly efficient data structure, 
on heavily fragmented pools they can still consume a significant 
amount of memory. This problem is amplified when we fail to unload 
metaslabs that we aren't using. Currently, we only unload a metaslab 
during metaslab_sync_done; in order for that function to be called 
on a given metaslab in a given txg, we have to have dirtied that 
metaslab in that txg. If the dirtying was the result of an allocation, 
we wouldn't be unloading it (since it wouldn't be 8 txgs since it 
was selected), so in effect we only unload a metaslab during txgs 
where it's being freed from.

We move the unload logic from sync_done to a new function, and 
call that function on all metaslabs in a given vdev during 
vdev_sync_done().

Reviewed-by: Richard Elling <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Dagnelie <[email protected]>
Closes #8837 

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/sys/metaslab.h b/include/sys/metaslab.h
index 2790d06c7..330902529 100644
--- a/include/sys/metaslab.h
+++ b/include/sys/metaslab.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ int metaslab_init(metaslab_group_t *, uint64_t, uint64_t, uint64_t,
 void metaslab_fini(metaslab_t *);
 
 int metaslab_load(metaslab_t *);
+void metaslab_potentially_unload(metaslab_t *, uint64_t);
 void metaslab_unload(metaslab_t *);
 
 uint64_t metaslab_allocated_space(metaslab_t *);