Hi experts,
When I use fio to write our distribution storage, I find a lot of page faults that affect the performance. My OS is CentOS7, anyone could give suggestions on how to root cause this issue? The CPU is running at 100%. [root@58 15:50:57 ~]$uname -a Linux 58 3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.smartx.1.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 16 22:09:10 CST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks in advance. This is the perf report from "perf record -g -p 9881" + 64.68% 0.01% zbs-chunkd [k] system_call_fastpath ▒ + 42.86% 0.01% zbs-chunkd [k] inet_recvmsg ▒ + 42.84% 0.00% zbs-chunkd [k] sys_recvfrom ▒ + 42.83% 0.13% zbs-chunkd [k] tcp_recvmsg ▒ + 42.83% 0.01% zbs-chunkd [k] SYSC_recvfrom ▒ + 42.75% 0.02% zbs-chunkd [k] sock_recvmsg ▒ + 39.52% 0.09% zbs-chunkd [k] skb_copy_datagram_iovec ▒ - 31.97% 7.18% zbs-chunkd [k] page_fault ▒ - 24.79% page_fault ▒ + 24.78% do_page_fault ▒ - 7.17% __libc_recv ▒ - 7.17% system_call_fastpath ▒ sys_recvfrom ▒ SYSC_recvfrom ▒ sock_recvmsg ▒ inet_recvmsg ▒ tcp_recvmsg ▒ skb_copy_datagram_iovec ▒ page_fault ▒ + 24.79% 0.04% zbs-chunkd [k] do_page_fault This is the output of "perf record -e page-faults -ag": Samples: 132K of event 'page-faults', Event count (approx.): 9249205 Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol + 78.92% 0.00% zbs-chunkd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] skb_copy_datagram_iovec + 78.92% 0.00% zbs-chunkd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] tcp_recvmsg + 78.92% 0.00% zbs-chunkd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] inet_recvmsg + 78.92% 0.00% zbs-chunkd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sock_recvmsg + 78.92% 0.00% zbs-chunkd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] SYSC_recvfrom + 78.92% 0.00% zbs-chunkd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sys_recvfrom + 78.92% 0.00% zbs-chunkd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] system_call_fastpath + 78.92% 78.92% zbs-chunkd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string + 78.92% 0.00% zbs-chunkd libpthread-2.17.so [.] __libc_recv -- Thanks and Best Regards, Feng Li(Alex)