Re: vfs.zfs.vol.recursive completely broken, time to remove?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:05:11 UTC
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:10 AM Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > It seems that while previously there could sometimes be a deadlock with > vfs.zfs.vol.recursive=1, now it is guaranteed. > > There was an OpenZFS change to use a pool of threads for vdev opening (to > parallelize / speed up). When such a thread opens a zvol it needs to acquire > spa_namespace_lock. But the lock is already held by a thread requesting the > operation such as a thread doing zpool import (spa_load). > So, it's an obvious deadlock: the main thread is waiting for the workers while > holding the namespace lock, at least one of the workers is blocked on the same lock. The last time I tried that there was pushback from a lot of different people. I think we need to fix it instead. Here's the beginning of that flame war. https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1031189+0+archive/2016/svn-src-all/20160124.svn-src-all