Dear Everyone, I did a cursory review of changes to the ZFSOnLinux repository made during the past 12 months and identified a number of commits that probably should be sent to Illumos.
I have attached a preliminary list. I did a really quick review, so I expect that there are a few false positives included and probably a few false negatives excluded. I can do a more thorough review to produce a comprehensive list, but the important thing is to work out the process to get the improvements made in ZFSOnLinux either merged back into Illumos or rejected with some kind of explanation why so that appropriate changes can be made in ZFSOnLinux to reduce code differences. Does anyone have any thoughts? Yours truly, Richard Yao
commit 86dd0fd9222b6103c6533036c47b908ece944460 Author: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Date: Sun Aug 19 17:17:02 2012 -0700 Pre-allocate vdev I/O buffers The vdev queue layer may require a small number of buffers when attempting to create aggregate I/O requests. Rather than attempting to allocate them from the global zio buffers, which is slow under memory pressure, it makes sense to pre-allocate them because... 1) These buffers arE� ���~�&6�]z�_7��h
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