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Increase L2ARC write rate and headroom
Current L2ARC write rate and headroom parameters are very conservative: l2arc_write_max=8M and l2arc_headroom=2 (ie: a full L2ARC writes at 8 MB/s, scanning 16/32 MB of ARC tail each time; a warming L2ARC runs at 2x these rates). These values were selected 15+ years ago based on then-current SSDs size, performance and endurance. Todays we have multi-TB, fast and cheap SSDs which can sustain much higher read/write rates. For this reason, this patch increases l2arc_write_max to 32 MB and set l2arc_headroom to 0. The former option speed up L2ARC warming and renewal rate, while the latter instruct the L2ARC write thread to search into all ARC (rather than on a short tail) for eligible buffers. With persistent L2ARC, l2arc_headroom=0 is especially valuable as it effectively enable a sort of "persistent ARC" - if/when the machine reboots, most of ARC is restored into L2ARC, providing a very tangible performance boost compared to an otherwise "cold" ARC/L2ARC. Signed-off-by: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
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