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RAIDZ: Use cache blocking during parity math

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RAIDZ: Use cache blocking during parity math

RAIDZ parity is calculated by adding data one column at a time. It
works OK for small blocks, but for large blocks results of previous
addition may already be evicted from CPU caches to main memory, and
in addition to extra memory write require extra read to get it back.

This patch splits large parity operations into 64KB chunks, that
should in most cases fit into CPU L2 caches from the last decade.
I haven't touched more complicated cases of data reconstruction to
not over complicate the code. Those should be relatively rare.

My tests on Xeon Gold 6242R CPU with 1MB of L2 cache per core show
up to 10/20% memory traffic reduction when writing to 4-wide RAIDZ/
RAIDZ2 blocks of ~4MB and up. Older CPUs with 256KB of L2 cache
should see the effect even on smaller blocks. Wider vdevs may need
bigger blocks to be affected.

Reviewed-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Closes #15448

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mavAuthored on Oct 30 2023, 9:54 PM
GitHub <noreply@github.com>Committed on Oct 30 2023, 9:54 PM
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rGc3773de16866: ZIL: Cleanup sync and commit handling
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