Align thread priority with Linux defaults

Under Linux filesystem threads responsible for handling I/O are
normally created with the maximum priority.  Non-I/O filesystem
processes run with the default priority.  ZFS should adopt the
same priority scheme under Linux to maintain good performance
and so that it will complete fairly when other Linux filesystems
are active.  The priorities have been updated to the following:

$ ps -eLo rtprio,cls,pid,pri,nice,cmd | egrep 'z_|spl_|zvol|arc|dbu|meta'
     -  TS 10743  19 -20 [spl_kmem_cache]
     -  TS 10744  19 -20 [spl_system_task]
     -  TS 10745  19 -20 [spl_dynamic_tas]
     -  TS 10764  19   0 [dbu_evict]
     -  TS 10765  19   0 [arc_prune]
     -  TS 10766  19   0 [arc_reclaim]
     -  TS 10767  19   0 [arc_user_evicts]
     -  TS 10768  19   0 [l2arc_feed]
     -  TS 10769  39   0 [z_unmount]
     -  TS 10770  39 -20 [zvol]
     -  TS 11011  39 -20 [z_null_iss]
     -  TS 11012  39 -20 [z_null_int]
     -  TS 11013  39 -20 [z_rd_iss]
     -  TS 11014  39 -20 [z_rd_int_0]
     -  TS 11022  38 -19 [z_wr_iss]
     -  TS 11023  39 -20 [z_wr_iss_h]
     -  TS 11024  39 -20 [z_wr_int_0]
     -  TS 11032  39 -20 [z_wr_int_h]
     -  TS 11033  39 -20 [z_fr_iss_0]
     -  TS 11041  39 -20 [z_fr_int]
     -  TS 11042  39 -20 [z_cl_iss]
     -  TS 11043  39 -20 [z_cl_int]
     -  TS 11044  39 -20 [z_ioctl_iss]
     -  TS 11045  39 -20 [z_ioctl_int]
     -  TS 11046  39 -20 [metaslab_group_]
     -  TS 11050  19   0 [z_iput]
     -  TS 11121  38 -19 [z_wr_iss]

Note that under Linux the meaning of a processes priority is inverted
with respect to illumos.  High values on Linux indicate a _low_ priority
while high value on illumos indicate a _high_ priority.

In order to preserve the logical meaning of the minclsyspri and
maxclsyspri macros when they are used by the illumos wrapper functions
their values have been inverted.  This way when changes are merged
from upstream illumos we won't need to remember to invert the macro.
It could also lead to confusion.

This patch depends on https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/pull/466.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <[email protected]>
Closes #3607

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libzpool/kernel.c b/lib/libzpool/kernel.c
index 80da41151..a45102699 100644
--- a/lib/libzpool/kernel.c
+++ b/lib/libzpool/kernel.c
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ zk_thread_helper(void *arg)
 	VERIFY3S(pthread_mutex_lock(&kthread_lock), ==, 0);
 	kthread_nr++;
 	VERIFY3S(pthread_mutex_unlock(&kthread_lock), ==, 0);
+	(void) setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, kt->t_pri);
 
 	kt->t_tid = pthread_self();
 	((thread_func_arg_t) kt->t_func)(kt->t_arg);
@@ -151,6 +152,7 @@ zk_thread_create(caddr_t stk, size_t stksize, thread_func_t func, void *arg,
 	kt = umem_zalloc(sizeof (kthread_t), UMEM_NOFAIL);
 	kt->t_func = func;
 	kt->t_arg = arg;
+	kt->t_pri = pri;
 
 	VERIFY0(pthread_attr_init(&attr));
 	VERIFY0(pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attr, detachstate));
diff --git a/lib/libzpool/taskq.c b/lib/libzpool/taskq.c
index 59b4c7c05..bd92e61ab 100644
--- a/lib/libzpool/taskq.c
+++ b/lib/libzpool/taskq.c
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ taskq_create(const char *name, int nthreads, pri_t pri,
 
 	for (t = 0; t < nthreads; t++)
 		VERIFY((tq->tq_threadlist[t] = thread_create(NULL, 0,
-		    taskq_thread, tq, TS_RUN, NULL, 0, 0)) != NULL);
+		    taskq_thread, tq, TS_RUN, NULL, 0, pri)) != NULL);
 
 	return (tq);
 }
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ taskq_cancel_id(taskq_t *tq, taskqid_t id)
 void
 system_taskq_init(void)
 {
-	system_taskq = taskq_create("system_taskq", 64, minclsyspri, 4, 512,
+	system_taskq = taskq_create("system_taskq", 64, maxclsyspri, 4, 512,
 	    TASKQ_DYNAMIC | TASKQ_PREPOPULATE);
 }