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Increase L2ARC write rate and headroom

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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. Today 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 32M and
l2arc_headroom to 8 (4x increase for both).

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
Closes #15457

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shodanshok <g.danti@assyoma.it>Authored on Nov 9 2023, 12:30 AM
GitHub <noreply@github.com>Committed on Nov 9 2023, 12:30 AM
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rG1c1be60fa21e: Unbreak FreeBSD world build after 3bd4df384
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