Re: [CentOS-virt] lvm cache + qemu-kvm stops working after about 20GB of writes

[Richard Landsman - Rimote]

Hello everyone,

I've tried just about everything the last weeks and my findings are:

- the problem with LVM cache seems NOT to be caused by KVM/qemu. But is 
/seems/ that it is noticeable more inside a KVM. So the slowdown of the 
cache also happens on HW-node, but you must give it a serious go before 
you notice.


- Not a single time I succeeded in creating a well working cache using 
LVM2 cache. In artificial / KVM setups and with *small* devices it works 
(dm-testsuite etc). But in real life scenario with *fully population all 
the PV's* on 2TB HDDs and 250G SSDs (both RAID 1) the cache stopped 
working after 20 - 50 GB of writes although the cache is 150+G large. 
Please use fio examples below and always use new filenames so not the 
same blocks are overwritten.


The poor performance stayed most of the time even when all blocks were 
flushed. Very unpredictable cache performance / behavior.


I finally decided to go for dm-writeboost in stead of lvm2 cache 
(dm-cache). This was the only way to create a well working cache that 
works till 95% filled. But of course would be nicer to have something 
that generally more stable like LVM2.


I guess in the sens of this mailing-list this issue is resolved because 
it does not seem to belong here.


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On 04/20/2017 04:23 PM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:



On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Richard Landsman - Rimote 
> wrote:


Hello everyone,

Anybody had the chance to test out this setup and reproduce the
problem? I assumed it would be something that's used often these
days and a solution would benefit a lot of users. If can be of any
assistance please contact me.

I haven't seen any additional report of this happening, can you please 
try to reproduce with the new qemu-kvm-ev-2.6.0-28.el7_3.9.1 currently 
in testing?


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[CentOS-virt] libxl: fix param assignment in domainGetSchedulerParameters

[Yuriy Kohut]

Hello,

Do you have any plans to include the 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-September/msg01284.html 
 
patch into libvirt version 2.2.0, shipped for the RHEL/CentOS 7.x and Xen 4.6.x 
?

Thanks
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