On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Xiaoxi Chen <superdebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi , > > > Here is the slide I shared yesterday on performance meeting. > Thanks and hoping for inputs. > > > http://www.slideshare.net/XiaoxiChen3/cephfs-jewel-mds-performance-benchmark
These are definitely useful results and I encourage everyone working with cephfs to go and look at Xiaoxi's slides. The main thing that this highlighted for me was our lack of testing so far on systems with full caches. Too much of our existing testing is done on freshly configured systems that never fill the MDS cache. Test 2.1 notes that we don't enable directory fragmentation by default currently -- this is an issue, and I'm hoping we can switch it on by default in Kraken (see thread "Switching on mds_bal_frag by default"). In the meantime we have the fix that Patrick wrote for Jewel which at least prevents people creating dirfrags too large for the OSDs to handle. Test 2.2: since a "failing to respond to cache pressure" bug is affecting this, I would guess we see the performance fall off at about the point where the *client* caches fill up (so they start trimming things even though they're ignore cache pressure). It would be interesting to see this chart with addition lines for some related perf counters like mds_log.evtrm and mds.inodes_expired, that might make it pretty obvious where the MDS is entering different stages that see a decrease in the rate of handling client requests. We really need to sort out the "failing to respond to cache pressure" issues that keep popping up, especially if they're still happening on a comparatively simple test that is just creating files. We have a specific test for this[1] that is currently being run against the fuse client but not the kernel client[2]. This is a good time to try and push that forward so I've kicked off an experimental run here: http://pulpito.ceph.com/jspray-2016-08-10_16:14:52-kcephfs:recovery-master-testing-basic-mira/ In the meantime, although there are reports of similar issues with newer kernels, it would be very useful to confirm if the same issue is still occurring with more recent kernels. Issues with cache trimming have occurred due to various (separate) bugs, so it's possible that while some people are still seeing cache trimming issues with recent kernels, the specific case you're hitting might be fixed. Test 2.3: restarting the MDS doesn't actually give you a completely empty cache (everything in the journal gets replayed to pre-populate the cache on MDS startup). However, the results are still valid because you're using a different random order in the non-caching test case, and the number of inodes in your journal is probably much smaller than the overall cache size so it's only a little bit populated. We don't currently have a "drop cache" command built into the MDS but it would be pretty easy to add one for use in testing (basically just call mds->mdcache->trim(0)). As one would imagine, the non-caching case is latency-dominated when the working set is larger than the cache, where each client is waiting for one open to finish before proceeding to the next. The MDS is probably capable of handling many more operations per second, but it would need more parallel IO operations from the clients. When a single client is doing opens one by one, you're potentially seeing a full network+disk latency for each one (though in practice the OSD read cache will be helping a lot here). This non-caching case would be the main argument for giving the metadata pool low latency (SSD) storage. Test 2.5: The observation that the CPU bottleneck makes using fast storage for the metadata pool less useful (in sequential/cached cases) is valid, although it could still be useful to isolate the metadata OSDs (probably SSDs since not so much capacity is needed) to avoid competing with data operations. For random access in the non-caching cases (2.3, 2.4) I think you would probably see an improvement from SSDs. Thanks again to the team from ebay for sharing all this. John 1. https://github.com/ceph/ceph-qa-suite/blob/master/tasks/cephfs/test_client_limits.py#L96 2. http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/9466 > > Xiaoxi > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
