Hi John,

I believe Wei's feature deals with controlling the max number of IOPS from
the hypervisor side.

My feature is focused on controlling IOPS from the storage system side.

I hope that helps. :)


On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 6:35 PM, John Burwell <jburw...@basho.com> wrote:

> Wei,
>
> My opinion is that no features should be merged until all functional
> issues have been resolved and it is ready to turn over to test.  Until the
> total Ops vs discrete read/write ops issue is addressed and re-reviewed by
> Wido, I don't think this criteria has been satisfied.
>
> Also, how does this work intersect/compliment the SolidFire patch (
> https://reviews.apache.org/r/11479/)?  As I understand it that work is
> also involves provisioned IOPS.  I would like to ensure we don't have a
> scenario where provisioned IOPS in KVM and SolidFire are unnecessarily
> incompatible.
>
> Thanks,
> -John
>
> On Jun 1, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Wei ZHOU <ustcweiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wido,
>
>
> Sure. I will change it next week.
>
>
> -Wei
>
>
>
> 2013/6/1 Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl>
>
>
> Hi Wei,
>
>
>
> On 06/01/2013 08:24 AM, Wei ZHOU wrote:
>
>
> Wido,
>
>
> Exactly. I have pushed the features into master.
>
>
> If anyone object thems for technical reason till Monday, I will revert
>
> them.
>
>
> For the sake of clarity I just want to mention again that we should change
>
> the total IOps to R/W IOps asap so that we never release a version with
>
> only total IOps.
>
>
> You laid the groundwork for the I/O throttling and that's great! We should
>
> however prevent that we create legacy from day #1.
>
>
> Wido
>
>
> -Wei
>
>
>
> 2013/5/31 Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl>
>
>
> On 05/31/2013 03:59 PM, John Burwell wrote:
>
>
> Wido,
>
>
> +1 -- this enhancement must to discretely support read and write IOPS.
>
> I
>
> don't see how it could be fixed later because I don't see how we
>
> correctly
>
> split total IOPS into read and write.  Therefore, we would be stuck
>
> with a
>
> total unless/until we decided to break backwards compatibility.
>
>
>
> What Wei meant was merging it into master now so that it will go in the
>
> 4.2 branch and add Read / Write IOps before the 4.2 release so that 4.2
>
> will be released with Read and Write instead of Total IOps.
>
>
> This is to make the May 31st feature freeze date. But if the window moves
>
> (see other threads) then it won't be necessary to do that.
>
>
> Wido
>
>
>
>  I also completely agree that there is no association between network
>
> and
>
>
> disk I/O.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -John
>
>
> On May 31, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi Wei,
>
>
>
> On 05/31/2013 03:13 PM, Wei ZHOU wrote:
>
>
> Hi Wido,
>
>
> Thanks. Good question.
>
>
> I  thought about at the beginning. Finally I decided to ignore the
>
> difference of read and write mainly because the network throttling did
>
> not
>
> care the difference of sent and received bytes as well.
>
> That reasoning seems odd. Networking and disk I/O completely different.
>
>
> Disk I/O is much more expensive in most situations then network
>
> bandwith.
>
>
>  Implementing it will be some copy-paste work. It could be
>
> implemented in
>
>
> few days. For the deadline of feature freeze, I will implement it
>
> after
>
> that , if needed.
>
>
>
> It think it's a feature we can't miss. But if it goes into the 4.2
>
>  window we have to make sure we don't release with only total IOps and
>
> fix
>
> it in 4.3, that will confuse users.
>
>
> Wido
>
>
>  -Wei
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2013/5/31 Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl>
>
>
>  Hi Wei,
>
>
>
>
> On 05/30/2013 06:03 PM, Wei ZHOU wrote:
>
>
>  Hi,
>
>
>  I would like to merge disk_io_throttling branch into master.
>
>  If nobody object, I will merge into master in 48 hours.
>
> The purpose is :
>
>
> Virtual machines are running on the same storage device (local
>
> storage or
>
>  share strage). Because of the rate limitation of device (such as
>
> iops), if
>
>  one VM has large disk operation, it may affect the disk performance
>
>  of
>
> other VMs running on the same storage device.
>
> It is neccesary to set the maximum rate and limit the disk I/O of
>
>  VMs.
>
>
>
>  Looking at the code I see you make no difference between Read and
>
> Write
>
> IOps.
>
>
> Qemu and libvirt support setting both a different rate for Read and
>
>  Write
>
> IOps which could benefit a lot of users.
>
>
>  It's also strange, in the polling side you collect both the Read and
>
>  Write
>
> IOps, but on the throttling side you only go for a global value.
>
>
> Write IOps are usually much more expensive then Read IOps, so it
>
> seems
>
> like a valid use-case where that an admin would set a lower value for
>
>  write
>
> IOps vs Read IOps.
>
>
>  Since this only supports KVM at this point I think it would be of
>
> great
>
> value to at least have the mechanism in place to support both,
>
> implementing
>
> this later would be a lot of work.
>
>
>  If a hypervisor doesn't support setting different values for read and
>
> write you can always sum both up and set that as the total limit.
>
>
> Can you explain why you implemented it this way?
>
>
> Wido
>
>
>   The feature includes:
>
>
>
> (1) set the maximum rate of VMs (in disk_offering, and global
>
>  configuration)
>
> (2) change the maximum rate of VMs
>
> (3) limit the disk rate (total bps and iops)
>
>  JIRA ticket: https://issues.apache.org/****
>
>  jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1192<ht**tps://issues.apache.org/****
>
>  jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1192<
> https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1192>
>
>  <ht**tps://issues.apache.org/**jira/**browse/CLOUDSTACK-1192<
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/**browse/CLOUDSTACK-1192>
>
> <**
> https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1192<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1192>
>
>
>
>  FS (I will update later) :
>
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/******confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/******<https://cwiki.apache.org/****confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/****>
>
> <
> https://cwiki.apache.org/****confluence/display/**CLOUDSTACK/**<https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/**>
>
> VM+Disk+IO+Throttling<https://****cwiki.apache.org/confluence/****<
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/**>
>
> display/CLOUDSTACK/VM+Disk+IO+****Throttling<https://cwiki.**
>
>  apache.org/confluence/display/**CLOUDSTACK/VM+Disk+IO+**Throttling<
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/VM+Disk+IO+Throttling
> >
>
>
>
>  Merge check list :-
>
>
> * Did you check the branch's RAT execution success?
>
> Yes
>
>
>  * Are there new dependencies introduced?
>
>  No
>
>
>  * What automated testing (unit and integration) is included in the
>
> new
>
> feature?
>
>  Unit tests are added.
>
>
>  * What testing has been done to check for potential regressions?
>
> (1) set the bytes rate and IOPS rate on CloudStack UI.
>
> (2) VM operations, including
>
>  deploy, stop, start, reboot, destroy, expunge. migrate, restore
>
> (3) Volume operations, including
>
> Attach, Detach
>
>
> To review the code, you can try
>
>  git diff c30057635d04a2396f84c588127d7e******be42e503a7
>
> f2e5591b710d04cc86815044f5823e******73a4a58944
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wei
>
>
>  [1]
>
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/******confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/******<https://cwiki.apache.org/****confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/****>
>
> <
> https://cwiki.apache.org/****confluence/display/**CLOUDSTACK/**<https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/**>
>
> VM+Disk+IO+Throttling<https://****cwiki.apache.org/confluence/****<
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/**>
>
> display/CLOUDSTACK/VM+Disk+IO+****Throttling<https://cwiki.**
>
>  apache.org/confluence/display/**CLOUDSTACK/VM+Disk+IO+**Throttling<
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/VM+Disk+IO+Throttling
> >
>
>
>
> [2] refs/heads/disk_io_throttling
>
>  [3]
> https://issues.apache.org/******jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1301<https://issues.apache.org/****jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1301>
>
> <ht**tps://issues.apache.org/****jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1301<
> https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1301>
>
> <ht**tps://issues.apache.org/**jira/**browse/CLOUDSTACK-1301<
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/**browse/CLOUDSTACK-1301>
>
> <**
> https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1301<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1301>
>
>
>
> <ht**tps://issues.apache.org/****jira/**browse/CLOUDSTACK-2071<
> http://issues.apache.org/**jira/**browse/CLOUDSTACK-2071>
>
> **<
> http://issues.apache.org/**jira/**browse/CLOUDSTACK-2071<http://issues.apache.org/jira/**browse/CLOUDSTACK-2071>
>
> <**
> https://issues.apache.org/****jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-2071<https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-2071>
>
> <h**ttps://issues.apache.org/jira/**browse/CLOUDSTACK-2071<
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-2071>
>
>
>
>  (**CLOUDSTACK-1301
>
>  -     VM Disk I/O Throttling)
>
>
>


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