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Best Practices for OpenZFS L2ARC in the Era of NVMe
Ryan McKenzieiXsystems
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Agenda
❏ Brief Overview of OpenZFS ARC / L2ARC❏ Key Performance Factors❏ Existing “Best Practices” for L2ARC❏ Rules of Thumb, Tribal Knowledge, etc.
❏ NVMe as L2ARC❏ Testing and Results
❏ Revised “Best Practices”
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ARC Overview● Adaptive Replacement
Cache● Resides in system
memory● Shared by all pools● Used to store/cache:
○ All incoming data○ “Hottest” data and
Metadata (a tunable ratio)
● Balances between○ Most Frequently
Used (MFU)○ Most Recently
Used (MRU)FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
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L2ARC Overview● Level 2 Adaptive
Replacement Cache● Resides on one or
more storage devices○ Usually Flash
● Device(s) added to pool○ Only services data
held by that pool● Used to store/cache:
○ “Warm” data and metadata ( about to be evicted from ARC)
○ Indexes to L2ARC blocks stored in ARC headers FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
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ZFS Writes● All writes go through
ARC, written blocks are “dirty” until on stable storage○ async write ACKs
immediately○ sync write copied
to ZIL/SLOG then ACKs
○ copied to data vdev in TXG
● When no longer dirty, written blocks stay in ARC and move through MRU/MFU lists normally FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
ACK
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ZFS Writes● All writes go through
ARC, written blocks are “dirty” until on stable storage○ async write ACKs
immediately○ sync write copied
to ZIL/SLOG then ACKs
○ copied to data vdev in TXG
● When no longer dirty, written blocks stay in ARC and move through MRU/MFU lists normally FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
ACK
ZIL on vdevs OR SLOG
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ZFS Writes● All writes go through
ARC, written blocks are “dirty” until on stable storage○ async write ACKs
immediately○ sync write copied
to ZIL/SLOG then ACKs
○ copied to data vdev in TXG
● When no longer dirty, written blocks stay in ARC and move through MRU/MFU lists normally FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
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ZFS Writes● All writes go through
ARC, written blocks are “dirty” until on stable storage○ async write ACKs
immediately○ sync write copied
to ZIL/SLOG then ACKs
○ copied to data vdev in TXG
● When no longer dirty, written blocks stay in ARC and move through MRU/MFU lists normally FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
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ZFS Reads● Requested block in ARC
○ Respond with block from ARC
● Requested block in L2○ Get index to L2ARC
block (from ARC)○ Respond with block
from L2ARC● Otherwise: read miss
○ Copy block from data vdev to ARC
○ Respond with block from ARC
○ “ARC PROMOTE”: read block(s) stay in ARC and move through MRU/MFU lists normally
FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
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ZFS Reads● Requested block in ARC
○ Respond with block from ARC
● Requested block in L2○ Get index to L2ARC
block (from ARC)○ Respond with block
from L2ARC● Otherwise: read miss
○ Copy block from data vdev to ARC
○ Respond with block from ARC
○ “ARC PROMOTE”: read block(s) stay in ARC and move through MRU/MFU lists normally
FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
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ZFS Reads● Requested block in ARC
○ Respond with block from ARC
● Requested block in L2○ Get index to L2ARC
block (from ARC)○ Respond with block
from L2ARC● Otherwise: read miss
○ Copy block from data vdev to ARC
○ Respond with block from ARC
○ “ARC PROMOTE”: read block(s) stay in ARC and move through MRU/MFU lists normally
FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
Prefetch more blocks to avoid another read miss?
demand
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ZFS Reads● Requested block in ARC
○ Respond with block from ARC
● Requested block in L2○ Get index to L2ARC
block (from ARC)○ Respond with block
from L2ARC● Otherwise: read miss
○ Copy block from data vdev to ARC
○ Respond with block from ARC
○ “ARC PROMOTE”: read block(s) stay in ARC and move through MRU/MFU lists normally
FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpoolData vdevs
SLOG vdevs
L2ARC vdevs
ARC
NIC/HBA
OpenZFS
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ARC Reclaim● Called to maintain/make
room in ARC for incoming writes
L2ARC Feed● Asynchronous of ARC
Reclaim to speed up ZFS write ACKs
● Periodically scans tails of MRU/MFU○ Copies blocks from
ARC to L2ARC○ Index to L2ARC
block resides in ARC headers
○ Feed rate is tunable● Writes to L2 device(s)
sequentially (rnd robin)FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpool
OpenZFS
ARC
L2ARC vdevs
MRUMFU
head tail
0
N
0
N
0
N
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ARC Reclaim● Called to maintain/make
room in ARC for incoming writes
L2ARC Feed● Asynchronous of ARC
Reclaim to speed up ZFS write ACKs
● Periodically scans tails of MRU/MFU○ Copies blocks from
ARC to L2ARC○ Index to L2ARC
block resides in ARC headers
○ Feed rate is tunable● Writes to L2 device(s)
sequentially (rnd robin)FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpool
OpenZFS
ARC
L2ARC vdevs
MRUMFU
head tail
0
N
0
N
0
N
hdrs
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L2ARC “Reclaim”● Not really a concept of
reclaim● When L2ARC device(s)
get full (sequentially at the “end”), L2ARC Feed just starts over at the “beginning”○ Overwrites
whatever was there before and updates index in ARC header
● If an L2ARC block is written, ARC will handle the write of the dirty block, L2ARC block is stale and the index is dropped
FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpool
OpenZFS
ARC
L2ARC vdevs
MRUMFU
head tail
0
N
0
N
0
N
hdrs
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L2ARC “Reclaim”● Not really a concept of
reclaim● When L2ARC device(s)
get full (sequentially at the “end”), L2ARC Feed just starts over at the “beginning”○ Overwrites
whatever was there before and updates index in ARC header
● If an L2ARC block is written , ARC will handle the write of the dirty block, L2ARC block is stale and the index is dropped
FreeBSD + OpenZFS Server
zpool
OpenZFS
ARC
L2ARC vdevs
MRUMFU
head tail
0
N
0
N
0
N
hdrs
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Some Notes:ARC / L2ARC Architecture● ARC/L2 “Blocks” are variable size:
○ =volblock size for zvol data blocks○ =record size for dataset data blocks○ =indirect block size for metadata blocks
● Smaller volblock/record sizes yield more metadata blocks (overhead) in the system○ may need to tune metadata % of ARC
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Some Notes:ARC / L2ARC Architecture● Blocks get into ARC via any ZFS write or by
demand/prefetch on ZFS read miss● Blocks cannot get into L2ARC unless they are
in ARC first (primary/secondary cache settings)○ CONFIGURATION PITFALL
● L2ARC is not persistent○ Blocks are persistent on the L2ARC
device(s) but the indexes to them are lost if the ARC headers are lost (main memory)
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Some Notes:ARC / L2ARC Architecture● Write-heavy workloads can “churn” tail of the
ARC MRU list quickly● Prefetch-heavy workloads can “scan” tail of the
ARC MRU list quickly● In both cases…
○ ARC MFU bias maintains integrity of cache○ L2ARC Feed “misses” many blocks○ Blocks that L2ARC does feed may not be hit
again - “Wasted L2ARC Feed”
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Agenda
✓ Brief Overview of OpenZFS ARC / L2ARC❏ Key Performance Factors❏ Existing “Best Practices” for L2ARC❏ Rules of Thumb, Tribal Knowledge, etc.
❏ NVMe as L2ARC❏ Testing and Results
❏ Revised “Best Practices”
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Key Performance Factors
● Random Read-Heavy Workload○ L2ARC designed for this, expect very effective once warmed
● Sequential Read-Heavy Workload○ L2ARC not originally designed for this, but specifically noted
that it might work with “future SSDs or other storage tech.”■ Let’s revisit this with NVMe!
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Key Performance Factors
● Write-Heavy Workload (random or sequential)○ ARC MRU churn, memory pressure, L2ARC never really
warmed because many L2ARC blocks get invalidated/dirty■ “Wasted” L2ARC Feeds
○ ARC and L2ARC are designed to primarily benefit reads○ Design expectation is “do no harm”, but there may be a
constant background performance impact of L2ARC feed
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Key Performance Factors
● Small ADS (relative to ARC and L2ARC)○ Higher possibility for L2ARC to fully warm and for L2ARC Feed
to slow down● Large ADS (relative to ARC and L2ARC)
○ Higher possibility for constant background L2ARC Feed
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Agenda
✓ Brief Overview of OpenZFS ARC / L2ARC✓ Key Performance Factors❏ Existing “Best Practices” for L2ARC❏ Rules of Thumb, Tribal Knowledge, etc.
❏ NVMe as L2ARC❏ Testing and Results
❏ Revised “Best Practices”
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Existing “Best Practices” for L2ARC❏ Do not use for sequential workloads❏ Segregated pools and/or datasets
■ At config time❏ “l2arc noprefetch” setting
■ Per Pool, Runtime tunable❏ “secondarycache=metadata” setting
■ primarycache and secondarycache are per dataset, Runtime tunable
■ all, metadata, none
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Existing “Best Practices” for L2ARC❏ Do not use for sequential workloads❏ Segregated pools
■ Global, At config time❏ “l2arc noprefetch” setting
■ Per Pool, Runtime tunable❏ “secondarycache=metadata” setting
■ primarycache and secondarycache are per dataset, Runtime tunable
■ all, metadata, none
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Existing “Best Practices” for L2ARC
❏ All are more or less plausible given our review of the design of L2ARC
❏ Time for some testing and validation!
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Agenda
✓ Brief Overview of OpenZFS ARC / L2ARC✓ Key Performance Factors✓ Existing “Best Practices” for L2ARC✓ Rules of Thumb, Tribal Knowledge, etc.
❏ NVMe as L2ARC❏ Testing and Validation
❏ Revised “Best Practices”
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Solution Under Test● FreeBSD+OpenZFS based storage server
○ 512G main memory○ 4x 1.6T NVMe drives installed
■ Enterprise-grade dual port PCIeG3● Just saying “NVMe” isn’t enough...
■ Tested in various L2ARC configurations○ 142 HDDs in 71 mirror vdevs○ 1x 100GbE NIC (optical)○ Exporting 12x iSCSI LUNs (pre-filled)○ 100GiB of active data per LUN (1.2TiB total ADS)
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Solution Under Test● ADS far too big for ARC
○ Will “fit into” any of our tested L2ARC configurations● Preconditioned ARC/L2ARC to be “fully warm” before
measurement (ARC size + L2 size >- 90% ADS)○ Possibly some blocks aren’t yet in cache, esp. w/random
● System reboot between test runs (L2ARC configs)○ Validated “balanced” read and write activity across the L2ARC
devices
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Solution Under Test● Load Generation
○ 12x Physical CentOS 7.4 Clients (32G main memory)○ 1x 10Gbe NIC (optical)○ Map one LUN per client○ VDBENCH to generate synthetic workloads
■ In-House “Active Benchmarking” Automation○ Direct IO to avoid client cache
● Network (100GbE Juniper)○ Server -> direct connect fiber via 100Gbe QSFP○ Clients -> aggregated in groups of 4 via 40Gbe QSFP
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Random Read-Heavy
● 4K IO Size, Pure Random, 100% Read
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OPS Achieved - Thread Scaling
More than 6x the OPS compared to NOL2ARC 1xNVMe and 2xNVMe
performance not scaling as expected, need to investigate...
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Avg. R/T (ms) - Thread Scaling
Reading from NVMe L2ARC has benefit of sub-ms latency
More L2ARC devices show latency benefit at higher thread counts
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NVMe Activity - 1 in L2ARC16 Thread Load Point (“best”)
Client Aggregate Read BW ~200MiB/s
1xNVMe servicing ~100MiB/s
Still some errant L2ARC Feeding - synthetic random workload
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NVMe Activity - 2 in L2ARC16 Thread Load Point (“best”)
Client Aggregate Read BW ~200MiB/s
2xNVMe servicing a bit more than 100MiB/s
Still some errant L2ARC Feeding - synthetic random workload
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NVMe Activity - 4 in L2ARC16 Thread Load Point (“best”)
Client Aggregate Read BW ~450MiB/s
4xNVMe servicing a bit more than 250MiB/s
Very few errant L2ARC Feeding - synthetic random workload
Even less than before -L2ARC feed rate is per device...
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L2ARC Effectiveness
16 Threads Measurement Period ("best")
NOL2ARC 4xNVMeOPS Achieved 14610.2333 112526.2694
% increase OPS 670.19%Avg. R/T (ms) 13.139 1.7057
% decrease R/T -670.30%
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Server CPU %Busy - Avg. of All Cores
“Moving the Bottleneck”A Cautionary Tale
CPU no longer waiting on high latency disk reads, is now copying buffers like crazy!
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Sequential Read-Heavy
● 128K IO Size, Sequential, 100% Read● 1xNVMe results omitted (invalid)
○ No system time available to re-run
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Bandwidth - Thread Scaling
Roughly 3x the bandwidth compared to NOL2ARC
L2ARC benefit becomes more pronounced at higher thread counts where sequential read workload appears like random reads to the server
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Avg. R/T (ms) - Thread Scaling
Reading from NVMe L2ARC has significant latency benefit even with larger reads
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ARC Prefetching
Prefetch ARC reads consist of about 20% of Total ARC reads
So ZFS only marks about 20% of our accesses as “streaming”
As we add more threads/clients the sequential read requests from them begin to arrive interleaved randomly at the server
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NVMe Activity - 2 in L2ARC16 Thread Load Point (“best”)
Client Aggregate Read BW ~3,000MiB/s
2xNVMe servicing ~2,800MiB/s
Almost no L2ARC Feeding
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NVMe Activity - 4 in L2ARC16 Thread Load Point (“best”)
Client Aggregate Read BW ~3,300MiB/s
4xNVMe servicing a bit more than ~3,000MiB/s
Almost no L2ARC Feeding
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L2ARC Effectiveness
16 Threads Measurement Period ("best")
NOL2ARC 4xNVMeMiB/s Achieved 1155.3823 3290.7132
% increase MiB/s 184.82%Avg. R/T (ms) 20.7702 7.2923
% decrease R/T -64.89%
64 Threads Measurement Period ("max")
NOL2ARC 4xNVMeMiB/s Achieved 1545.3837 4852.7472
% increase MiB/s 214.02%Avg. R/T (ms) 62.1173 19.7816
% decrease R/T -68.15%
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Having a “fully warm” L2ARC is only a good thing if your cache device(s) are “fast enough”
“All my data fits in L2ARC!”A Cautionary Tale
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L2ARC with Sequential Reads
❏ vfs.zfs.l2arc_noprefetch=0○ As tested on this server○ ⇒ blocks that were put into ARC by
prefetcher are eligible for L2ARC❏ Let’s test vfs.zfs.l2arc_noprefetch=1
○ ⇒ blocks that were put into ARC by prefetcher are NOT L2ARC-eligible
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L2ARC with Sequential Reads
❏ Let’s test secondarycache=metadata○ Only metadata blocks from ARC are are
eligible for L2ARC❏ Both of these are strategies to keep L2ARC
from Feeding certain blocks○ With older/slower/fewer L2ARC devices
this made sense...
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But if your cache device(s) are good, it makes no sense to keep blocks out of the L2ARC
Bandwidth - Thread Scaling
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Summary for Write-Heavy Workloads
● 4K IO Size, Pure Random, 100% Write○ L2ARC constantly feeding - writes causing memory pressure○ Up to 20% reduction in OPS vs. NOL2ARC○ Not worth tuning for mitigation
■ Pure writes are rare in practice■ Trying a 50/50 read write mix (which is still more writes
than typical random small block use cases) and all L2ARC configs beat NOL2ARC
● 128K IO Size, Sequential, 100% Write○ Bandwidth differences of less than 10% +/- over NOL2ARC
■ “In the Noise” - meets design goal of “do no harm”■ Trying a 50/50 mix again shows benefit on all L2 configs
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Agenda
✓ Brief Overview of OpenZFS ARC / L2ARC✓ Key Performance Factors✓ Existing “Best Practices” for L2ARC✓ Rules of Thumb, Tribal Knowledge, etc.
✓ NVMe as L2ARC✓ Testing and Validation
❏ Revised “Best Practices”
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Key Sizing/Config Metrics
● Key Ratio 1:ADS / (ARC Max + L2ARC Size)○ <= 1 means your workload’s active dataset will likely be
persistently cached in ARC and/or L2ARC
● Key Ratio 2:(aggregate bandwidth of L2ARC devices) / (agg. bw. of data vdevs)○ > 1 means your L2ARC can stream sequential data faster than
all the data vdevs in your pool
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L2ARC Device Selection
● Type ⇒ Bandwidth/OPS and Latency Capabilities○ Consider devices that fit your budget and use case.○ Random Read Heavy Workloads can benefit for almost any
L2ARC device that is faster than the devices in your data vdevs○ Sequential/Streaming Workloads will need very fast low latency
devices● Segregated pools vs. mixed use pool with segregated datasets
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L2ARC Device Selection
● Capacity○ Larger L2ARC devices can hold more of your active dataset,
but will take longer to “fully warm”■ For Random Read-Heavy Workloads, GO BIG■ For Sequential Read-Heavy Workloads, only go big if your
devices will have enough bandwidth to benefit vs. your data vdevs
○ Indexes to L2ARC data reside in ARC headers■ 96 bytes per block (reclaimed from ARC)■ 256 bytes per block (still in ARC also)■ Run “top”, referred to as “headers”, small ARC and HUGE
L2ARC is probably not a good idea…
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L2ARC Device Selection
● Device Count○ Our testing shows that multiple L2ARC devices will “share the
load” of servicing reads, helping with latency○ L2ARC Feeding rate is per device, so more devices can help
warm faster (or have a higher performance impact if constantly feeding)
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L2ARC Feeding
● What to Feed?○ Random Read-Heavy Workload: feed everything○ Sequential Read-Heavy Workloads
■ “Slow L2”: Demand Feed - l2arc_noprefetch=1 (global)■ “Fast L2”: feed everything
○ Write-Heavy Workloads ■ “Slow L2”: Feed Nothing - segregated pool
● or secondarycache=none (per dataset)■ “Fast L2”: Feed Metadata - secondarycache=metadata (per
dataset)● Avoids constant L2 writes but benefits metadata reads
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The Best Practice
● Know your workload○ For customers, know your top level application(s) and if
possible, underlying factors such as access pattern, block size, and active dataset size
○ For vendors, get as much of the above information as you can● Know your solution
○ For vendors, know how you solutions’s architecture and features interact with different customer workloads■ (S31) So, You Want to Build a Storage Performance Testing Lab?
- Nick Principe○ For customers, familiarize yourself with this from the vendor’s
sales engineers and support personnel that you work with
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Big Picture
● With enterprise grade NVMe devices as L2ARC, we have reached the “future” the Brendan Gregg mentions in his blog and in the arc.c code:○ Namely, L2ARC can now be an effective tool for improving the
performance of streaming workloads
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Agenda
✓ Brief Overview of OpenZFS ARC / L2ARC✓ Key Performance Factors✓ Existing “Best Practices” for L2ARC✓ Rules of Thumb, Tribal Knowledge, etc.
✓ NVMe as L2ARC✓ Testing and Validation
✓ Revised “Best Practices”
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Thank You!
Questions and Discussion
Ryan McKenzieiXsystems
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References● module/zfs/arc.c
○ https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs● “ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache”
○ Nimrod Megiddo and Dharmendra S. Modha○ 2nd USENIX COnference on File Storage Technologies (2003)○ https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast-03/arc-self-tuning-low-overhead-replacement-cache
● “Activity of the ZFS ARC”, Brendan Gregg’s Blog (January 9, 2012)○ http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2012/01/09/activity-of-the-zfs-arc/
● “ZFS L2ARC”, Brendan Gregg’s Blog (July 22, 2008)○ http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2008-07-22/zfs-l2arc.html
● “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS”○ Allan Jude and Michael W. Lucas○ Tilted Windmill Press, 2016○ ISBN-13: 978-1-64235-001-2○ https://www.amazon.com/FreeBSD-Mastery-Advanced-ZFS/dp/164235001X