summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/include/sys/metaslab_impl.h
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'include/sys/metaslab_impl.h')
-rw-r--r--include/sys/metaslab_impl.h32
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/sys/metaslab_impl.h b/include/sys/metaslab_impl.h
index 386f6240c..a36baedd4 100644
--- a/include/sys/metaslab_impl.h
+++ b/include/sys/metaslab_impl.h
@@ -67,20 +67,38 @@ struct metaslab_group {
};
/*
- * Each metaslab's free space is tracked in space map object in the MOS,
- * which is only updated in syncing context. Each time we sync a txg,
+ * Each metaslab maintains an in-core free map (ms_map) that contains the
+ * current list of free segments. As blocks are allocated, the allocated
+ * segment is removed from the ms_map and added to a per txg allocation map.
+ * As blocks are freed, they are added to the per txg free map. These per
+ * txg maps allow us to process all allocations and frees in syncing context
+ * where it is safe to update the on-disk space maps.
+ *
+ * Each metaslab's free space is tracked in a space map object in the MOS,
+ * which is only updated in syncing context. Each time we sync a txg,
* we append the allocs and frees from that txg to the space map object.
* When the txg is done syncing, metaslab_sync_done() updates ms_smo
- * to ms_smo_syncing. Everything in ms_smo is always safe to allocate.
+ * to ms_smo_syncing. Everything in ms_smo is always safe to allocate.
+ *
+ * To load the in-core free map we read the space map object from disk.
+ * This object contains a series of alloc and free records that are
+ * combined to make up the list of all free segments in this metaslab. These
+ * segments are represented in-core by the ms_map and are stored in an
+ * AVL tree.
+ *
+ * As the space map objects grows (as a result of the appends) it will
+ * eventually become space-inefficient. When the space map object is
+ * zfs_condense_pct/100 times the size of the minimal on-disk representation,
+ * we rewrite it in its minimized form.
*/
struct metaslab {
kmutex_t ms_lock; /* metaslab lock */
space_map_obj_t ms_smo; /* synced space map object */
space_map_obj_t ms_smo_syncing; /* syncing space map object */
- space_map_t ms_allocmap[TXG_SIZE]; /* allocated this txg */
- space_map_t ms_freemap[TXG_SIZE]; /* freed this txg */
- space_map_t ms_defermap[TXG_DEFER_SIZE]; /* deferred frees */
- space_map_t ms_map; /* in-core free space map */
+ space_map_t *ms_allocmap[TXG_SIZE]; /* allocated this txg */
+ space_map_t *ms_freemap[TXG_SIZE]; /* freed this txg */
+ space_map_t *ms_defermap[TXG_DEFER_SIZE]; /* deferred frees */
+ space_map_t *ms_map; /* in-core free space map */
int64_t ms_deferspace; /* sum of ms_defermap[] space */
uint64_t ms_weight; /* weight vs. others in group */
metaslab_group_t *ms_group; /* metaslab group */