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authorEtienne Dechamps <[email protected]>2015-05-10 16:37:22 +0100
committerBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2015-06-22 14:19:31 -0700
commite8fe6684a5128427e6ad1e75eb548b9fd0c482aa (patch)
treebed57cfb0f5eb9eab16b06bc2149ec595fa6a84b /module/zfs/metaslab.c
parentbb3250d07ec818587333d7c26116314b3dc8a684 (diff)
Document metaslab_aliquot.
Signed-off-by: Etienne Dechamps <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/module/zfs/metaslab.c b/module/zfs/metaslab.c
index 86bf3c197..15859908f 100644
--- a/module/zfs/metaslab.c
+++ b/module/zfs/metaslab.c
@@ -53,7 +53,14 @@
#define METASLAB_ACTIVE_MASK \
(METASLAB_WEIGHT_PRIMARY | METASLAB_WEIGHT_SECONDARY)
+/*
+ * Metaslab granularity, in bytes. This is roughly similar to what would be
+ * referred to as the "stripe size" in traditional RAID arrays. In normal
+ * operation, we will try to write this amount of data to a top-level vdev
+ * before moving on to the next one.
+ */
uint64_t metaslab_aliquot = 512ULL << 10;
+
uint64_t metaslab_gang_bang = SPA_MAXBLOCKSIZE + 1; /* force gang blocks */
/*