I found the command: rados -p cephfs_cache cache-flush-evict-all

The documentation (
http://docs.ceph.com/docs/luminous/rados/operations/cache-tiering/) has
been improved a lot since I last checked it a few weeks ago!

-Shaw

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Shawfeng Dong <s...@ucsc.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Luis.
>
> I've just set max_bytes and max_objects:
> target_max_objects: 1000000 (1M)
> target_max_bytes: 1099511627776 (1TB)
>
> but nothing appears to be happening. Is there a way to force flushing?
>
> Thanks,
> Shaw
>
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Luis Periquito <periqu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Not looking at anything else, you didn't set the max_bytes or
>> max_objects for it to start flushing...
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Shawfeng Dong <s...@ucsc.edu> wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot for the very insightful comments/suggestions!
>> >
>> > There are 3 OSD servers in our pilot Ceph cluster, each with 2x 1TB SSDs
>> > (boot disks), 12x 8TB SATA HDDs and 2x 1.2TB NVMe SSDs. We use the
>> bluestore
>> > backend, with the first NVMe as the WAL and DB devices for OSDs on the
>> HDDs.
>> > And we try to create a cache tier out of the second NVMes.
>> >
>> > Here are the outputs of the commands suggested by David:
>> >
>> > 1) # ceph df
>> > GLOBAL:
>> >     SIZE     AVAIL     RAW USED     %RAW USED
>> >     265T      262T        2847G          1.05
>> > POOLS:
>> >     NAME                ID     USED      %USED      MAX AVAIL
>>  OBJECTS
>> >     cephfs_data         1          0          0          248T
>>  0
>> >     cephfs_metadata     2      8515k          0          248T
>> 24
>> >     cephfs_cache        3      1381G     100.00             0
>> 355385
>> >
>> > 2) # ceph osd df
>> >  0   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2076M  7450G  0.03  0.03 174
>> >  1   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 169
>> >  2   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 173
>> >  3   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 159
>> >  4   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 173
>> >  5   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 162
>> >  6   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 149
>> >  7   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 179
>> >  8   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2076M  7450G  0.03  0.03 163
>> >  9   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 194
>> > 10   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 185
>> > 11   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 168
>> > 36  nvme 1.09149  1.00000 1117G  855G   262G 76.53 73.01  79
>> > 12   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 180
>> > 13   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 168
>> > 14   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 178
>> > 15   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 170
>> > 16   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 149
>> > 17   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 203
>> > 18   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 173
>> > 19   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2076M  7450G  0.03  0.03 158
>> > 20   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 154
>> > 21   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 160
>> > 22   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 167
>> > 23   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2076M  7450G  0.03  0.03 188
>> > 37  nvme 1.09149  1.00000 1117G 1061G 57214M 95.00 90.63  98
>> > 24   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 187
>> > 25   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 200
>> > 26   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 147
>> > 27   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 171
>> > 28   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 162
>> > 29   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 152
>> > 30   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 174
>> > 31   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 176
>> > 32   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 182
>> > 33   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2072M  7450G  0.03  0.03 155
>> > 34   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2076M  7450G  0.03  0.03 166
>> > 35   hdd 7.27829  1.00000 7452G 2076M  7450G  0.03  0.03 176
>> > 38  nvme 1.09149  1.00000 1117G  857G   260G 76.71 73.18  79
>> >                     TOTAL  265T 2847G   262T  1.05
>> > MIN/MAX VAR: 0.03/90.63  STDDEV: 22.81
>> >
>> > 3) # ceph osd tree
>> > -1       265.29291 root default
>> > -3        88.43097     host pulpo-osd01
>> >  0   hdd   7.27829         osd.0            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >  1   hdd   7.27829         osd.1            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >  2   hdd   7.27829         osd.2            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >  3   hdd   7.27829         osd.3            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >  4   hdd   7.27829         osd.4            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >  5   hdd   7.27829         osd.5            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >  6   hdd   7.27829         osd.6            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >  7   hdd   7.27829         osd.7            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >  8   hdd   7.27829         osd.8            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >  9   hdd   7.27829         osd.9            up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 10   hdd   7.27829         osd.10           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 11   hdd   7.27829         osd.11           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 36  nvme   1.09149         osd.36           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > -5        88.43097     host pulpo-osd02
>> > 12   hdd   7.27829         osd.12           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 13   hdd   7.27829         osd.13           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 14   hdd   7.27829         osd.14           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 15   hdd   7.27829         osd.15           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 16   hdd   7.27829         osd.16           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 17   hdd   7.27829         osd.17           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 18   hdd   7.27829         osd.18           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 19   hdd   7.27829         osd.19           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 20   hdd   7.27829         osd.20           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 21   hdd   7.27829         osd.21           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 22   hdd   7.27829         osd.22           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 23   hdd   7.27829         osd.23           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 37  nvme   1.09149         osd.37           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 36  nvme   1.09149         osd.36           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > -5        88.43097     host pulpo-osd02
>> > 12   hdd   7.27829         osd.12           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 13   hdd   7.27829         osd.13           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 14   hdd   7.27829         osd.14           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 15   hdd   7.27829         osd.15           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 16   hdd   7.27829         osd.16           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 17   hdd   7.27829         osd.17           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 18   hdd   7.27829         osd.18           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 19   hdd   7.27829         osd.19           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 20   hdd   7.27829         osd.20           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 21   hdd   7.27829         osd.21           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 22   hdd   7.27829         osd.22           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 23   hdd   7.27829         osd.23           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 37  nvme   1.09149         osd.37           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > -7        88.43097     host pulpo-osd03
>> > 24   hdd   7.27829         osd.24           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 25   hdd   7.27829         osd.25           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 26   hdd   7.27829         osd.26           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 27   hdd   7.27829         osd.27           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 28   hdd   7.27829         osd.28           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 29   hdd   7.27829         osd.29           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 30   hdd   7.27829         osd.30           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 31   hdd   7.27829         osd.31           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 32   hdd   7.27829         osd.32           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 33   hdd   7.27829         osd.33           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 34   hdd   7.27829         osd.34           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 35   hdd   7.27829         osd.35           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> > 38  nvme   1.09149         osd.38           up  1.00000 1.00000
>> >
>> > 4) # ceph osd pool get cephfs_cache all
>> > min_size: 2
>> > crash_replay_interval: 0
>> > pg_num: 128
>> > pgp_num: 128
>> > crush_rule: pulpo_nvme
>> > hashpspool: true
>> > nodelete: false
>> > nopgchange: false
>> > nosizechange: false
>> > write_fadvise_dontneed: false
>> > noscrub: false
>> > nodeep-scrub: false
>> > hit_set_type: bloom
>> > hit_set_period: 14400
>> > hit_set_count: 12
>> > hit_set_fpp: 0.05
>> > use_gmt_hitset: 1
>> > auid: 0
>> > target_max_objects: 0
>> > target_max_bytes: 0
>> > cache_target_dirty_ratio: 0.4
>> > cache_target_dirty_high_ratio: 0.6
>> > cache_target_full_ratio: 0.8
>> > cache_min_flush_age: 0
>> > cache_min_evict_age: 0
>> > min_read_recency_for_promote: 0
>> > min_write_recency_for_promote: 0
>> > fast_read: 0
>> > hit_set_grade_decay_rate: 0
>> > crash_replay_interval: 0
>> >
>> > Do you see anything wrong? We had written some small files to the CephFS
>> > before we tried to write the big 1TB file. What is puzzling to me is
>> that no
>> > data has been written back to the data pool.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Shaw
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 6:46 AM, David Turner <drakonst...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017, 1:05 AM Christian Balzer <ch...@gol.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, 06 Oct 2017 03:30:41 +0000 David Turner wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > You're missing most all of the important bits. What the osds in your
>> >>> > cluster look like, your tree, and your cache pool settings.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > ceph df
>> >>> > ceph osd df
>> >>> > ceph osd tree
>> >>> > ceph osd pool get cephfs_cache all
>> >>> >
>> >>> Especially the last one.
>> >>>
>> >>> My money is on not having set target_max_objects and target_max_bytes
>> to
>> >>> sensible values along with the ratios.
>> >>> In short, not having read the (albeit spotty) documentation.
>> >>>
>> >>> > You have your writeback cache on 3 nvme drives. It looks like you
>> have
>> >>> > 1.6TB available between them for the cache. I don't know the
>> behavior
>> >>> > of a
>> >>> > writeback cache tier on cephfs for large files, but I would guess
>> that
>> >>> > it
>> >>> > can only hold full files and not flush partial files.
>> >>>
>> >>> I VERY much doubt that, if so it would be a massive flaw.
>> >>> One assumes that cache operations work on the RADOS object level, no
>> >>> matter what.
>> >>
>> >> I hope that it is on the rados level, but not a single object had been
>> >> flushed to the backing pool. So I hazarded a guess. Seeing his
>> settings will
>> >> shed more light.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> > That would mean your
>> >>> > cache needs to have enough space for any file being written to the
>> >>> > cluster.
>> >>> > In this case a 1.3TB file with 3x replication would require 3.9TB
>> (more
>> >>> > than double what you have available) of available space in your
>> >>> > writeback
>> >>> > cache.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > There are very few use cases that benefit from a cache tier. The
>> docs
>> >>> > for
>> >>> > Luminous warn as much.
>> >>> You keep repeating that like a broken record.
>> >>>
>> >>> And while certainly not false I for one wouldn't be able to use
>> (justify
>> >>> using) Ceph w/o cache tiers in our main use case.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> In this case I assume they were following and old cheat sheet or such,
>> >>> suggesting the previously required cache tier with EC pools.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://docs.ceph.com/docs/luminous/rados/operations/cache-tiering/
>> >>
>> >> I know I keep repeating it, especially recently as there have been a
>> lot
>> >> of people asking about it. The Luminous docs added a large section
>> about how
>> >> it is probably not what you want. Like me, it is not saying that there
>> are
>> >> no use cases for it. There was no information provided about the use
>> case
>> >> and I made some suggestions/guesses. I'm also guessing that they are
>> >> following a guide where a writeback cache was necessary for CephFS to
>> use EC
>> >> prior to Luminous. I also usually add that people should test it out
>> and
>> >> find what works best for them. I will always defer to your practical
>> use of
>> >> cache tiers as well, especially when using rbds.
>> >>
>> >> I manage a cluster that I intend to continue running a writeback cache
>> in
>> >> front of CephFS on the same drives as the EC pool. The use case
>> receives a
>> >> good enough benefit from the cache tier that it isn't even required to
>> use
>> >> flash media to see it. It is used for video editing and the files are
>> >> usually modified and read within the first 24 hours and then left in
>> cold
>> >> storage until deleted. I have the cache timed to keep everything in it
>> for
>> >> 24 hours and then evict it by using a minimum time to flush and evict
>> at 24
>> >> hours and a target max bytes of 0. All files are in there for that
>> time and
>> >> then it never has to decide what to keep as it doesn't keep anything
>> longer
>> >> than that. Luckily read performance from cold storage is not a
>> requirement
>> >> of this cluster as any read operation has to first read it from EC
>> storage,
>> >> write it to replica storage, and then read it from replica storage...
>> Yuck.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Christian
>> >>>
>> >>> >What is your goal by implementing this cache? If the
>> >>> > answer is to utilize extra space on the nvmes, then just remove it
>> and
>> >>> > say
>> >>> > thank you. The better use of nvmes in that case are as a part of the
>> >>> > bluestore stack and give your osds larger DB partitions. Keeping
>> your
>> >>> > metadata pool on nvmes is still a good idea.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017, 7:45 PM Shawfeng Dong <s...@ucsc.edu> wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > > Dear all,
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > We just set up a Ceph cluster, running the latest stable release
>> Ceph
>> >>> > > v12.2.0 (Luminous):
>> >>> > > # ceph --version
>> >>> > > ceph version 12.2.0 (32ce2a3ae5239ee33d6150705cdb24d43bab910c)
>> >>> > > luminous
>> >>> > > (rc)
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > The goal is to serve Ceph filesystem, for which we created 3
>> pools:
>> >>> > > # ceph osd lspools
>> >>> > > 1 cephfs_data,2 cephfs_metadata,3 cephfs_cache,
>> >>> > > where
>> >>> > > * cephfs_data is the data pool (36 OSDs on HDDs), which is
>> >>> > > erased-coded;
>> >>> > > * cephfs_metadata is the metadata pool
>> >>> > > * cephfs_cache is the cache tier (3 OSDs on NVMes) for
>> cephfs_data.
>> >>> > > The
>> >>> > > cache-mode is writeback.
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > Everything had worked fine, until today when we tried to copy a
>> 1.3TB
>> >>> > > file
>> >>> > > to the CephFS.  We got the "No space left on device" error!
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > 'ceph -s' says some OSDs are full:
>> >>> > > # ceph -s
>> >>> > >   cluster:
>> >>> > >     id:     e18516bf-39cb-4670-9f13-88ccb7d19769
>> >>> > >     health: HEALTH_ERR
>> >>> > >             full flag(s) set
>> >>> > >             1 full osd(s)
>> >>> > >             1 pools have many more objects per pg than average
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > >   services:
>> >>> > >     mon: 3 daemons, quorum pulpo-admin,pulpo-mon01,pulpo-mds01
>> >>> > >     mgr: pulpo-mds01(active), standbys: pulpo-admin, pulpo-mon01
>> >>> > >     mds: pulpos-1/1/1 up  {0=pulpo-mds01=up:active}
>> >>> > >     osd: 39 osds: 39 up, 39 in
>> >>> > >          flags full
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > >   data:
>> >>> > >     pools:   3 pools, 2176 pgs
>> >>> > >     objects: 347k objects, 1381 GB
>> >>> > >     usage:   2847 GB used, 262 TB / 265 TB avail
>> >>> > >     pgs:     2176 active+clean
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > >   io:
>> >>> > >     client:   19301 kB/s rd, 2935 op/s rd, 0 op/s wr
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > And indeed the cache pool is full:
>> >>> > > # rados df
>> >>> > > POOL_NAME       USED  OBJECTS CLONES COPIES MISSING_ON_PRIMARY
>> >>> > > UNFOUND
>> >>> > > DEGRADED RD_OPS   RD
>> >>> > >     WR_OPS  WR
>> >>> > > cephfs_cache    1381G  355385      0 710770                  0
>> >>> > > 0
>> >>> > >     0 10004954 15
>> >>> > > 22G 1398063  1611G
>> >>> > > cephfs_data         0       0      0      0                  0
>> >>> > > 0
>> >>> > >     0        0
>> >>> > >   0       0      0
>> >>> > > cephfs_metadata 8515k      24      0     72                  0
>> >>> > > 0
>> >>> > >     0        3  3
>> >>> > > 072    3953 10541k
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > total_objects    355409
>> >>> > > total_used       2847G
>> >>> > > total_avail      262T
>> >>> > > total_space      265T
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > However, the data pool is completely empty! So it seems that data
>> has
>> >>> > > only
>> >>> > > been written to the cache pool, but not written back to the data
>> >>> > > pool.
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > I am really at a loss whether this is due to a setup error on my
>> >>> > > part, or
>> >>> > > a Luminous bug. Could anyone shed some light on this? Please let
>> me
>> >>> > > know if
>> >>> > > you need any further info.
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > Best,
>> >>> > > Shaw
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>> >>> > >
>> >>>
>> >>>
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