GPFS is 'IBM General Parallel File System', also called 'IBM Spectrum Scale', stalls when a process issues a lot of fsyncs in a short timeframe.
It is better if the VM I/O is not synchronous. It is racommended to use writeback caching policy. In order to permit that it is added VIR_FILE_SHFS_GPFS to the list of shared file systems in virStorageFileIsClusterFS function. Signed-off-by: Diego Michelotto <diego.michelo...@cnaf.infn.it> --- src/util/virstoragefile.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virstoragefile.c b/src/util/virstoragefile.c index b2e308d81d..0fe2819dc6 100644 --- a/src/util/virstoragefile.c +++ b/src/util/virstoragefile.c @@ -1349,7 +1349,8 @@ int virStorageFileIsClusterFS(const char *path) return virFileIsSharedFSType(path, VIR_FILE_SHFS_GFS2 | VIR_FILE_SHFS_OCFS | - VIR_FILE_SHFS_CEPH); + VIR_FILE_SHFS_CEPH | + VIR_FILE_SHFS_GPFS); } #ifdef LVS -- 2.20.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list