I installed apport and python3-launchpadlib, and ran the requested
command:

$ apport-collect 1862822
The authorization page:
 
(https://launchpad.net/+authorize-token?oauth_token=KJm30XZW6qPv9HDzn45k&allow_permission=DESKTOP_INTEGRATION)
should be opening in your browser. Use your browser to authorize
this program to access Launchpad on your behalf.
Waiting to hear from Launchpad about your decision...

However, I don't have a web browser installed.  Let me know if there's
another way to gather the requested information.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  init_on_alloc=1 causes big performance regression for ZFS

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Apologies if this is not the right forum to raise this concern.  If
  not please point me to a better place to have this discussion.

  The 5.3 linux kernel added a new feature which allows pages to be
  zeroed when allocating or freeing them: init_on_alloc and
  init_on_free. The init_on_alloc flag is enabled by default on the
  Ubuntu 18.04 HWE kernel.

  Linux kernel commit:
  
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6471384af2a6530696fc0203bafe4de41a23c9ef

  ZFS allocates and frees pages frequently (via the ABD structure), e.g.
  for every disk access. The additional overhead of zeroing these pages
  is significant. For example, I measured a ~40% regression in
  performance of an uncached "zfs send ... >/dev/null".  While this is a
  specific workload, this is a general problem because whenever we read
  from disk we are going to allocate pages, unnecessarily zero them, and
  then immediately fill them with the data from disk.

  I don't see any mechanism for ZFS to request that pages *not* be
  zeroed when they are allocated.

  This performance regression has been noted by users of ZFS on Ubuntu:
  https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/9910

  I'd like to request that the default in Ubuntu be changed to
  init_on_alloc=0, so that users of ZFS on Ubuntu do not experience this
  performance regression.

  (FYI, my employer, Delphix, has worked around this by changing the
  default in our product, but my concern is that the vast majority of
  Ubuntu users will simply experience this as "Ubuntu HWE is much slower
  than before".)

  $ cat /proc/version_signature
  Ubuntu 5.3.0-28.30~18.04.1-generic 5.3.13

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