ZFS tries to save time in scrubbing by visiting data in most-referenced-to-least-referenced order (so that it need not visit a block once for each reference to it): in short, it scans the DDT for all blocks with refcount >1 and then walks the on-disk tree to visit refcount==1 blocks. Unfortunately, the first phase is apparently prone to being very seeky, resulting in agonizingly slow scrubs and resilvers (my disks all get 18-25 ops/sec during this phase, for a grand total of ~1.5MB/sec from my raidz2; later traversals are much more respectable at 35MB/sec or so). It would be better, I think, if the scrub logic traversed the DDT with a measure of on-disk locality (though this will, naturally, take several passes to visit all blocks). A straightforward way to do this, though by no means necessarily the best, would be to allocate in RAM a fixed-size sorted queue of visited block pointers and ignore block pointers that fell outside the min and max of this queue (rather like the HAMMER2 lazy deduplication logic, amusingly enough). Upon visiting a block pointer, it would be inserted into the queue and may displace a higher address (which will be unnecessarily revisited later, but that's OK), but will thereby restrict this pass to a narrower region of the disk, reducing the number of long-distance seeks. When a pass over the DDT has finished, if the queue's max is still infinity, no additional passes are needed; otherwise, the max of the queue should be made the min, the max should be reset to infinity, and another pass over the DDT should be made. The current bookmarking scheme is sufficient to resume this game, as well, I think, with the understanding that all blocks in the DDT whose on-disk location is greater than the bookmark are still due for scan (i.e. when resuming, use the bookmark as the min of the queue and initialize the max to infinity). It may make sense, rather than tracking exact block pointers in the queue, to mask off some number of bits from the bottom of their addresses and track those values instead.
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"Fast Dedupe" addresses many ZFS deduplication issues: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/15896 Please re-open if issue is not addressed by fast dedupe.