Interesting. We've seen things like this on the librbd side in the past, but I don't think I've seen this kind of behavior in the kernel client. what does the latency historgram look like when going from 1->2?

Mark

On 03/06/2015 08:10 AM, Nick Fisk wrote:
Just tried cfq, deadline and noop which more or less all show identical results

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Alexandre DERUMIER
Sent: 06 March 2015 11:59
To: Nick Fisk
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Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Strange krbd behaviour with queue depths

Hi, do you have tried with differents io schedulers to compare ?


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De: "Nick Fisk" <n...@fisk.me.uk>
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Envoyé: Jeudi 5 Mars 2015 18:17:27
Objet: [ceph-users] Strange krbd behaviour with queue depths



I’m seeing a strange queue depth behaviour with a kernel mapped RBD, librbd 
does not show this problem.



Cluster is comprised of 4 nodes, 10GB networking, not including OSDs as test 
sample is small so fits in page cache.



Running fio against a kernel mapped RBD

fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test 
--filename=/dev/rbd/cache1/test2 --bs=4k --readwrite=randread --iodepth=1 
--runtime=10 --size=1g



Queue Depth

IOPS


1

2021


2

288


4

376


8

601


16

1272


32

2467


64

16901


128

44060



See how initially I get a very high number of IOs at queue depth 1, but this 
drops dramatically as soon as I start increasing the queue depth. It’s not 
until a depth or 32 IOs that I start to get similar performance. Incidentally 
when changing the read type to sequential instead of random the oddity goes 
away.



Running fio with librbd engine and the same test options I get the following



Queue Depth

IOPS


1

1492


2

3232


4

7099


8

13875


16

18759


32

17998


64

18104


128

18589





As you can see the performance scales up nicely, although the top end IO’s seem 
limited to around 18k. I don’t know if this is due to kernel/userspace 
performance differences or if there is a lower max queue depth limit in librbd.



Both tests were run on a small sample size to force the OSD data into page 
cache to rule out any device latency.



Does anyone know why kernel mapped RBD’s show this weird behaviour? I don’t 
think it can be OSD/ceph config related as it only happens with krbd’s.



Nick




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