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Diffstat (limited to 'module/zfs/dmu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | module/zfs/dmu.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/module/zfs/dmu.c b/module/zfs/dmu.c index eee3e70bb..5ce11e86d 100644 --- a/module/zfs/dmu.c +++ b/module/zfs/dmu.c @@ -73,9 +73,13 @@ int zfs_nopwrite_enabled = 1; unsigned long zfs_per_txg_dirty_frees_percent = 5; /* - * Enable/disable forcing txg sync when dirty in dmu_offset_next. + * Enable/disable forcing txg sync when dirty checking for holes with lseek(). + * By default this is enabled to ensure accurate hole reporting, it can result + * in a significant performance penalty for lseek(SEEK_HOLE) heavy workloads. + * Disabling this option will result in holes never being reported in dirty + * files which is always safe. */ -int zfs_dmu_offset_next_sync = 0; +int zfs_dmu_offset_next_sync = 1; /* * Limit the amount we can prefetch with one call to this amount. This @@ -2107,8 +2111,8 @@ restart: * If the zfs_dmu_offset_next_sync module option is enabled * then strict hole reporting has been requested. Dirty * dnodes must be synced to disk to accurately report all - * holes. When disabled (the default) dirty dnodes are - * reported to not have any holes which is always safe. + * holes. When disabled dirty dnodes are reported to not + * have any holes which is always safe. * * When called by zfs_holey_common() the zp->z_rangelock * is held to prevent zfs_write() and mmap writeback from |