Cap metaslab memory usage

On systems with large amounts of storage and high fragmentation, a huge 
amount of space can be used by storing metaslab range trees. Since 
metaslabs are only unloaded during a txg sync, and only if they have 
been inactive for 8 txgs, it is possible to get into a state where all 
of the system's memory is consumed by range trees and metaslabs, and 
txgs cannot sync. While ZFS knows how to evict ARC data when needed, 
it has no such mechanism for range tree data. This can result in boot 
hangs for some system configurations.

First, we add the ability to unload metaslabs outside of syncing 
context. Second, we store a multilist of all loaded metaslabs, sorted 
by their selection txg, so we can quickly identify the oldest 
metaslabs.  We use a multilist to reduce lock contention during heavy 
write workloads. Finally, we add logic that will unload a metaslab 
when we're loading a new metaslab, if we're using more than a certain 
fraction of the available memory on range trees.

Reviewed-by: Matt Ahrens <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: George Wilson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sebastien Roy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Dagnelie <[email protected]>
Closes #9128 

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/module/zfs/arc.c b/module/zfs/arc.c
index 90a731bff..b5fca8e26 100644
--- a/module/zfs/arc.c
+++ b/module/zfs/arc.c
@@ -1110,7 +1110,6 @@ static boolean_t arc_is_overflowing(void);
 static void arc_buf_watch(arc_buf_t *);
 static void arc_tuning_update(void);
 static void arc_prune_async(int64_t);
-static uint64_t arc_all_memory(void);
 
 static arc_buf_contents_t arc_buf_type(arc_buf_hdr_t *);
 static uint32_t arc_bufc_to_flags(arc_buf_contents_t);
@@ -4828,7 +4827,7 @@ arc_reduce_target_size(int64_t to_free)
  * Return maximum amount of memory that we could possibly use.  Reduced
  * to half of all memory in user space which is primarily used for testing.
  */
-static uint64_t
+uint64_t
 arc_all_memory(void)
 {
 #ifdef _KERNEL