Про ZFS L2ARC

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* At this point, we have a level 1 cache miss. Try again in
* L2ARC if possible.
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* Read from the L2ARC if the following are true:
* 1. The L2ARC vdev was previously cached.
* 2. This buffer still has L2ARC metadata.
* 3. This buffer isn't currently writing to the L2ARC.
* 4. The L2ARC entry wasn't evicted, which may
* also have invalidated the vdev.
* 5. This isn't prefetch and l2arc_noprefetch is set.
Твои настройки не запрещают ни один из пунктов.
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Начиная с 5775 строки, как мне кажется, самый важный комментарий для твоего случая. Желательно его прочитатать полностью. Приведу только, что меня заинтересовало:
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* Read requests are satisfied from the following sources, in order:
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* 1) ARC
* 2) vdev cache of L2ARC devices
* 3) L2ARC devices
* 4) vdev cache of disks
* 5) disks
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* Some L2ARC device types exhibit extremely slow write performance.
* To accommodate for this there are some significant differences between
* the L2ARC and traditional cache design:
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* 1. There is no eviction path from the ARC to the L2ARC. Evictions from
* the ARC behave as usual, freeing buffers and placing headers on ghost
* lists. The ARC does not send buffers to the L2ARC during eviction as
* this would add inflated write latencies for all ARC memory pressure.
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* 2. The L2ARC attempts to cache data from the ARC before it is evicted.
* It does this by periodically scanning buffers from the eviction-end of
* the MFU and MRU ARC lists, copying them to the L2ARC devices if they are
* not already there. It scans until a headroom of buffers is satisfied,
* which itself is a buffer for ARC eviction. If a compressible buffer is
* found during scanning and selected for writing to an L2ARC device, we
* temporarily boost scanning headroom during the next scan cycle to make
* sure we adapt to compression effects (which might significantly reduce
* the data volume we write to L2ARC). The thread that does this is
* l2arc_feed_thread(), illustrated below; example sizes are included to
* provide a better sense of ratio than this diagram:
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* 3. If an ARC buffer is copied to the L2ARC but then hit instead of
* evicted, then the L2ARC has cached a buffer much sooner than it probably
* needed to, potentially wasting L2ARC device bandwidth and storage. It is
* safe to say that this is an uncommon case, since buffers at the end of
* the ARC lists have moved there due to inactivity.
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* 4. If the ARC evicts faster than the L2ARC can maintain a headroom,
* then the L2ARC simply misses copying some buffers. This serves as a
* pressure valve to prevent heavy read workloads from both stalling the ARC
* with waits and clogging the L2ARC with writes. This also helps prevent
* the potential for the L2ARC to churn if it attempts to cache content too
* quickly, such as during backups of the entire pool.
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* 5. After system boot and before the ARC has filled main memory, there are
* no evictions from the ARC and so the tails of the ARC_mfu and ARC_mru
* lists can remain mostly static. Instead of searching from tail of these
* lists as pictured, the l2arc_feed_thread() will search from the list heads
* for eligible buffers, greatly increasing its chance of finding them.
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* The L2ARC device write speed is also boosted during this time so that
* the L2ARC warms up faster. Since there have been no ARC evictions yet,
* there are no L2ARC reads, and no fear of degrading read performance
* through increased writes.
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* 6. Writes to the L2ARC devices are grouped and sent in-sequence, so that
* the vdev queue can aggregate them into larger and fewer writes. Each
* device is written to in a rotor fashion, sweeping writes through
* available space then repeating.
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* 7. The L2ARC does not store dirty content. It never needs to flush
* write buffers back to disk based storage.
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* 8. If an ARC buffer is written (and dirtied) which also exists in the
* L2ARC, the now stale L2ARC buffer is immediately dropped.
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Осталось выработать гипотезу и придумать как её проверить :-).