Yes: Two days ago I did a complete re-deployment of ceph from my test cluster to a production cluster. As part this re-deployment I also added the following to my ceph.conf:
[osd] bluestore compression mode = aggressive bluestore compression min blob size hdd = 262144 Apparently, cephfs and rbd clients do not provide hints to ceph about blob sizes, so for these apps bluestore will (at least in current versions) always compress blobs of size bluestore_compression_min_blob_size_hdd. The best achievable compression ratio is bluestore_compression_min_blob_size_hdd/bluestore_min_alloc_size_hdd. I did not want to reduce the default of bluestore_min_alloc_size_hdd = 64KB and only increased bluestore_compression_min_blob_size_hdd to 4*bluestore_compression_min_blob_size_hdd, which means that for large compressible files the best ratio is 4. I tested this with a 1TB file of zeros and it works. I'm not sure what the performance impact and rocksDB overhead implications of all bluestore options are. Pretty much nothing of this is easy to find in documentations. I will keep watching how the above works in reality and, maybe, make some more advanced experiments later. Best regards, ================= Frank Schilder AIT Risø Campus Bygning 109, rum S14 ________________________________________ From: ceph-users <ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com> on behalf of Ragan, Tj (Dr.) <tj.ra...@leicester.ac.uk> Sent: 14 March 2019 11:22:07 To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] bluestore compression enabled but no data compressed Hi Frank, Did you ever get the 0.5 compression ratio thing figured out? Thanks -TJ Ragan On 23 Oct 2018, at 16:56, Igor Fedotov <ifedo...@suse.de<mailto:ifedo...@suse.de>> wrote: Hi Frank, On 10/23/2018 2:56 PM, Frank Schilder wrote: Dear David and Igor, thank you very much for your help. I have one more question about chunk sizes and data granularity on bluestore and will summarize the information I got on bluestore compression at the end. 1) Compression ratio --------------------------- Following Igor's explanation, I tried to understand the numbers for compressed_allocated and compressed_original and am somewhat stuck with figuring out how bluestore arithmetic works. I created a 32GB file of zeros using dd with write size bs=8M on a cephfs with ceph.dir.layout="stripe_unit=4194304 stripe_count=1 object_size=4194304 pool=con-fs-data-test" The data pool is an 8+2 erasure coded pool with properties pool 37 'con-fs-data-test' erasure size 10 min_size 9 crush_rule 11 object_hash rjenkins pg_num 900 pgp_num 900 last_change 9970 flags hashpspool,ec_overwrites stripe_width 32768 compression_mode aggressive application cephfs As I understand EC pools, a 4M object is split into 8x0.5M data shards that are stored together with 2x0.5M coding shards on one OSD each. So, I would expect a full object write to put a 512K chunk on each OSD in the PG. Looking at some config options of one of the OSDs, I see: "bluestore_compression_max_blob_size_hdd": "524288", "bluestore_compression_min_blob_size_hdd": "131072", "bluestore_max_blob_size_hdd": "524288", "bluestore_min_alloc_size_hdd": "65536", >From this, I would conclude that the largest chunk size is 512K, which also >equals compression_max_blob_size. The minimum allocation size is 64K for any >object. What I would expect now is, that the full object writes to cephfs >create chunk sizes of 512M per OSD in the PG, meaning that with an all-zero >file I should observe a compresses_allocated ratio of 64K/512K=0.125 instead >of the 0.5 reported below. It looks like that chunks of 128K are written >instead of 512K. I'm happy with the 64K granularity, but the observed maximum >chunk size seems a factor of 4 too small. Where am I going wrong, what am I overlooking? Please note how selection whether to use compression_max_blob_size or compression_min_blob_size is performed. Max blob size threshold is mainly for objects that are tagged with flags indicating non-random access, e.g. sequential read and/or write, immutable, append-only etc. Here is how it's determined in the code: if ((alloc_hints & CEPH_OSD_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_READ) && (alloc_hints & CEPH_OSD_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_RANDOM_READ) == 0 && (alloc_hints & (CEPH_OSD_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_IMMUTABLE | CEPH_OSD_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_APPEND_ONLY)) && (alloc_hints & CEPH_OSD_ALLOC_HINT_FLAG_RANDOM_WRITE) == 0) { dout(20) << __func__ << " will prefer large blob and csum sizes" << dendl; This is done to minimize the overhead during future random access since it will need full blob decompression. Hence min blob size is used for regular random I/O. Which is probably you case as well. You can check bluestore log (once its level is raised to 20) to confirm this. E.g. by looking for the following line output: dout(20) << __func__ << " prefer csum_order " << wctx->csum_order << " target_blob_size 0x" << std::hex << wctx->target_blob_size << std::dec << dendl; So you can simply increase bluestore_compression_min_blob_size_hdd if you want longer compressed chunks. With the above-mentioned penalty on subsequent access though. 2) Bluestore compression configuration --------------------------------------------------- If I understand David correctly, pool and OSD settings do *not* override each other, but are rather *combined* into a resulting setting as follows. Let 0 - (n)one 1 - (p)assive 2 - (a)ggressive 3 - (f)orce ? - (u)nset be the 4+1 possible settings of compression modes with numeric values assigned as shown. Then, the resulting numeric compression mode for data in a pool on a specific OSD is res_compr_mode = min(mode OSD, mode pool) or in form of a table: pool | n p a f u --+-------------- n | n n n n n O p | n p p p ? S a | n p a a ? D f | n p a f ? u | n ? ? ? u which would allow for the flexible configuration as mentioned by David below. I'm actually not sure if I can confirm this. I have some pools where compression_mode is not set and which reside on separate OSDs with compression enabled, yet there is compressed data on these OSDs. Wondering if I polluted my test with "ceph config set bluestore_compression_mode aggressive" that I executed earlier, or if my above interpretation is still wrong. Does the setting issued with "ceph config set bluestore_compression_mode aggressive" apply to pools with 'compression_mode' not set on the pool (see question marks in table above, what is the resulting mode?). What I would like to do is enable compression on all OSDs, enable compression on all data pools and disable compression on all meta data pools. Data and meta data pools might share OSDs in the future. The above table says I should be able to do just that by being explicit. Many thanks again and best regards, Will try to answer later. Thanks, Igor _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com<mailto:ceph-users@lists.ceph.com> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
