Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 14/08/15 13:30, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 14/08/15 09:31, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/13/2015 12:46 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 12/08/15 11:17, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/12/2015 01:32 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/11/2015 03:45 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 11/08/15 07:08, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/10/2015 11:52 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/10/2015 05:03 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: ... Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. blk-mq still provides merging, there should be no difference there. Does the xen patches set BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE? Yes. Is it possible that xen-blkfront driver dequeue requests too fast after we have multiple hardware queues? Because new requests don't have the chance merging with old requests which were already dequeued and issued. For some reason we don't see merges even when we set multiqueue to 1. Below are some stats from the guest system when doing sequential 4KB reads: $ fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --rw=read --numjobs=8 --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB --filename=/dev/xvdb $ iostat -xt 5 /dev/xvdb avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.500.002.73 85.142.009.63 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/swkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util xvdb 0.00 0.00 156926.000.00 627704.00 0.00 8.0030.060.190.190.00 0.01 100.48 $ cat /sys/block/xvdb/queue/scheduler none $ cat /sys/block/xvdb/queue/nomerges 0 Relevant bits from the xenstore configuration on the dom0: /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/dev = xvdb /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/backend-kind = vbd /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/type = phy /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/multi-queue-max-queues = 1 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/multi-queue-num-queues = 1 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/ring-ref = 9 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/event-channel = 60 If you add --iodepth-batch=16 to that fio command line? Both mq and non-mq relies on plugging to get batching in the use case above, otherwise IO is dispatched immediately. O_DIRECT is immediate. I'd be more interested in seeing a test case with buffered IO of a file system on top of the xvdb device, if we're missing merging for that case, then that's a much bigger issue. I was using the null block driver for xen blk-mq test. There were not merges happen any more even after patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/13/185 (Which just converted xen block driver to use blk-mq apis) Will try a file system soon. I have more results for the guest with and without the patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/13/185 applied to the latest stable kernel (4.1.5). Thank you. Command line used was: fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --rw=read --numjobs=8 \ --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB \ --filename=/dev/xvdb --direct=(0 and 1) --iodepth_batch=16 without patch (--direct=1): xvdb: ios=18696304/0, merge=75763177/0, ticks=11323872/0, in_queue=11344352, util=100.00% with patch (--direct=1): xvdb: ios=43709976/0, merge=97/0, ticks=8851972/0, in_queue=8902928, util=100.00% So request merge can happen just more difficult to be triggered. How about the iops of
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 08/13/2015 12:46 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 12/08/15 11:17, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/12/2015 01:32 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/11/2015 03:45 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 11/08/15 07:08, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/10/2015 11:52 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/10/2015 05:03 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: ... Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. blk-mq still provides merging, there should be no difference there. Does the xen patches set BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE? Yes. Is it possible that xen-blkfront driver dequeue requests too fast after we have multiple hardware queues? Because new requests don't have the chance merging with old requests which were already dequeued and issued. For some reason we don't see merges even when we set multiqueue to 1. Below are some stats from the guest system when doing sequential 4KB reads: $ fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --rw=read --numjobs=8 --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB --filename=/dev/xvdb $ iostat -xt 5 /dev/xvdb avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.500.002.73 85.142.009.63 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/swkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util xvdb 0.00 0.00 156926.000.00 627704.00 0.00 8.0030.060.190.190.00 0.01 100.48 $ cat /sys/block/xvdb/queue/scheduler none $ cat /sys/block/xvdb/queue/nomerges 0 Relevant bits from the xenstore configuration on the dom0: /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/dev = xvdb /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/backend-kind = vbd /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/type = phy /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/multi-queue-max-queues = 1 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/multi-queue-num-queues = 1 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/ring-ref = 9 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/event-channel = 60 If you add --iodepth-batch=16 to that fio command line? Both mq and non-mq relies on plugging to get batching in the use case above, otherwise IO is dispatched immediately. O_DIRECT is immediate. I'd be more interested in seeing a test case with buffered IO of a file system on top of the xvdb device, if we're missing merging for that case, then that's a much bigger issue. I was using the null block driver for xen blk-mq test. There were not merges happen any more even after patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/13/185 (Which just converted xen block driver to use blk-mq apis) Will try a file system soon. I have more results for the guest with and without the patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/13/185 applied to the latest stable kernel (4.1.5). Thank you. Command line used was: fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --rw=read --numjobs=8 \ --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB \ --filename=/dev/xvdb --direct=(0 and 1) --iodepth_batch=16 without patch (--direct=1): xvdb: ios=18696304/0, merge=75763177/0, ticks=11323872/0, in_queue=11344352, util=100.00% with patch (--direct=1): xvdb: ios=43709976/0, merge=97/0, ticks=8851972/0, in_queue=8902928, util=100.00% So request merge can happen just more difficult to be triggered. How about the iops of both cases? without patch buffered (--direct=0): xvdb: ios=1079051/0, merge=76/0,
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 14/08/15 09:31, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/13/2015 12:46 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 12/08/15 11:17, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/12/2015 01:32 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/11/2015 03:45 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 11/08/15 07:08, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/10/2015 11:52 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/10/2015 05:03 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: ... Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. blk-mq still provides merging, there should be no difference there. Does the xen patches set BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE? Yes. Is it possible that xen-blkfront driver dequeue requests too fast after we have multiple hardware queues? Because new requests don't have the chance merging with old requests which were already dequeued and issued. For some reason we don't see merges even when we set multiqueue to 1. Below are some stats from the guest system when doing sequential 4KB reads: $ fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --rw=read --numjobs=8 --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB --filename=/dev/xvdb $ iostat -xt 5 /dev/xvdb avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.500.002.73 85.142.009.63 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/swkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util xvdb 0.00 0.00 156926.000.00 627704.00 0.00 8.0030.060.190.190.00 0.01 100.48 $ cat /sys/block/xvdb/queue/scheduler none $ cat /sys/block/xvdb/queue/nomerges 0 Relevant bits from the xenstore configuration on the dom0: /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/dev = xvdb /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/backend-kind = vbd /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/type = phy /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/multi-queue-max-queues = 1 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/multi-queue-num-queues = 1 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/ring-ref = 9 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/event-channel = 60 If you add --iodepth-batch=16 to that fio command line? Both mq and non-mq relies on plugging to get batching in the use case above, otherwise IO is dispatched immediately. O_DIRECT is immediate. I'd be more interested in seeing a test case with buffered IO of a file system on top of the xvdb device, if we're missing merging for that case, then that's a much bigger issue. I was using the null block driver for xen blk-mq test. There were not merges happen any more even after patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/13/185 (Which just converted xen block driver to use blk-mq apis) Will try a file system soon. I have more results for the guest with and without the patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/13/185 applied to the latest stable kernel (4.1.5). Thank you. Command line used was: fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --rw=read --numjobs=8 \ --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB \ --filename=/dev/xvdb --direct=(0 and 1) --iodepth_batch=16 without patch (--direct=1): xvdb: ios=18696304/0, merge=75763177/0, ticks=11323872/0, in_queue=11344352, util=100.00% with patch (--direct=1): xvdb: ios=43709976/0, merge=97/0, ticks=8851972/0, in_queue=8902928, util=100.00% So request merge can happen just more difficult to be triggered. How about the iops of both cases? Without the patch it is 318Kiops, with
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 12/08/15 11:17, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/12/2015 01:32 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/11/2015 03:45 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 11/08/15 07:08, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/10/2015 11:52 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/10/2015 05:03 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: ... Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. blk-mq still provides merging, there should be no difference there. Does the xen patches set BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE? Yes. Is it possible that xen-blkfront driver dequeue requests too fast after we have multiple hardware queues? Because new requests don't have the chance merging with old requests which were already dequeued and issued. For some reason we don't see merges even when we set multiqueue to 1. Below are some stats from the guest system when doing sequential 4KB reads: $ fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --rw=read --numjobs=8 --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB --filename=/dev/xvdb $ iostat -xt 5 /dev/xvdb avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.500.002.73 85.142.009.63 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/swkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util xvdb 0.00 0.00 156926.000.00 627704.00 0.00 8.0030.060.190.190.00 0.01 100.48 $ cat /sys/block/xvdb/queue/scheduler none $ cat /sys/block/xvdb/queue/nomerges 0 Relevant bits from the xenstore configuration on the dom0: /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/dev = xvdb /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/backend-kind = vbd /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/type = phy /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/2/51728/multi-queue-max-queues = 1 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/multi-queue-num-queues = 1 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/ring-ref = 9 /local/domain/2/device/vbd/51728/event-channel = 60 If you add --iodepth-batch=16 to that fio command line? Both mq and non-mq relies on plugging to get batching in the use case above, otherwise IO is dispatched immediately. O_DIRECT is immediate. I'd be more interested in seeing a test case with buffered IO of a file system on top of the xvdb device, if we're missing merging for that case, then that's a much bigger issue. I was using the null block driver for xen blk-mq test. There were not merges happen any more even after patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/13/185 (Which just converted xen block driver to use blk-mq apis) Will try a file system soon. I have more results for the guest with and without the patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/13/185 applied to the latest stable kernel (4.1.5). Command line used was: fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --rw=read --numjobs=8 \ --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB \ --filename=/dev/xvdb --direct=(0 and 1) --iodepth_batch=16 without patch (--direct=1): xvdb: ios=18696304/0, merge=75763177/0, ticks=11323872/0, in_queue=11344352, util=100.00% with patch (--direct=1): xvdb: ios=43709976/0, merge=97/0, ticks=8851972/0, in_queue=8902928, util=100.00% without patch buffered (--direct=0): xvdb: ios=1079051/0, merge=76/0, ticks=749364/0, in_queue=748840, util=94.60 with patch buffered (--direct=0): xvdb: ios=1132932/0, merge=0/0, ticks=689108/0, in_queue=688488, util=93.32%
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 08/10/2015 11:52 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/10/2015 05:03 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 01/07/15 04:03, Jens Axboe wrote: On 06/30/2015 08:21 AM, Marcus Granado wrote: Hi, Our measurements for the multiqueue patch indicate a clear improvement in iops when more queues are used. The measurements were obtained under the following conditions: - using blkback as the dom0 backend with the multiqueue patch applied to a dom0 kernel 4.0 on 8 vcpus. - using a recent Ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19 with multiqueue frontend applied to be used as a guest on 4 vcpus - using a micron RealSSD P320h as the underlying local storage on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 Xeon E5-2643 v2 cpus. - fio 2.2.7-22-g36870 as the generator of synthetic loads in the guest. We used direct_io to skip caching in the guest and ran fio for 60s reading a number of block sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 4MiB. Queue depth of 32 for each queue was used to saturate individual vcpus in the guest. We were interested in observing storage iops for different values of block sizes. Our expectation was that iops would improve when increasing the number of queues, because both the guest and dom0 would be able to make use of more vcpus to handle these requests. These are the results (as aggregate iops for all the fio threads) that we got for the conditions above with sequential reads: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops 8 32 512 158K 264K 8 321K 157K 260K 8 322K 157K 258K 8 324K 148K 257K 8 328K 124K 207K 8 32 16K84K 105K 8 32 32K50K 54K 8 32 64K24K 27K 8 32 128K11K 13K 8-queue iops was better than single queue iops for all the block sizes. There were very good improvements as well for sequential writes with block size 4K (from 80K iops with single queue to 230K iops with 8 queues), and no regressions were visible in any measurement performed. Great results! And I don't know why this code has lingered for so long, so thanks for helping get some attention to this again. Personally I'd be really interested in the results for the same set of tests, but without the blk-mq patches. Do you have them, or could you potentially run them? Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. blk-mq still provides merging, there should be no difference there. Does the xen patches set BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE? Yes. Is it possible that xen-blkfront driver dequeue requests too fast after we have multiple hardware queues? Because new requests don't have the chance merging with old requests which were already dequeued and issued. -- Regards, -Bob ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 11/08/15 07:08, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/10/2015 11:52 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/10/2015 05:03 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 01/07/15 04:03, Jens Axboe wrote: On 06/30/2015 08:21 AM, Marcus Granado wrote: Hi, Our measurements for the multiqueue patch indicate a clear improvement in iops when more queues are used. The measurements were obtained under the following conditions: - using blkback as the dom0 backend with the multiqueue patch applied to a dom0 kernel 4.0 on 8 vcpus. - using a recent Ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19 with multiqueue frontend applied to be used as a guest on 4 vcpus - using a micron RealSSD P320h as the underlying local storage on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 Xeon E5-2643 v2 cpus. - fio 2.2.7-22-g36870 as the generator of synthetic loads in the guest. We used direct_io to skip caching in the guest and ran fio for 60s reading a number of block sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 4MiB. Queue depth of 32 for each queue was used to saturate individual vcpus in the guest. We were interested in observing storage iops for different values of block sizes. Our expectation was that iops would improve when increasing the number of queues, because both the guest and dom0 would be able to make use of more vcpus to handle these requests. These are the results (as aggregate iops for all the fio threads) that we got for the conditions above with sequential reads: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops 8 32 512 158K 264K 8 321K 157K 260K 8 322K 157K 258K 8 324K 148K 257K 8 328K 124K 207K 8 32 16K84K 105K 8 32 32K50K 54K 8 32 64K24K 27K 8 32 128K11K 13K 8-queue iops was better than single queue iops for all the block sizes. There were very good improvements as well for sequential writes with block size 4K (from 80K iops with single queue to 230K iops with 8 queues), and no regressions were visible in any measurement performed. Great results! And I don't know why this code has lingered for so long, so thanks for helping get some attention to this again. Personally I'd be really interested in the results for the same set of tests, but without the blk-mq patches. Do you have them, or could you potentially run them? Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. blk-mq still provides merging, there should be no difference there. Does the xen patches set BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE? Yes. Is it possible that xen-blkfront driver dequeue requests too fast after we have multiple hardware queues? Because new requests don't have the chance merging with old requests which were already dequeued and issued. For some reason we don't see merges even when we set multiqueue to 1. Below are some stats from the guest system when doing sequential 4KB reads: $ fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --rw=read --numjobs=8 --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB --filename=/dev/xvdb $ iostat -xt 5 /dev/xvdb avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 08/11/2015 03:45 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 11/08/15 07:08, Bob Liu wrote: On 08/10/2015 11:52 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 08/10/2015 05:03 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 01/07/15 04:03, Jens Axboe wrote: On 06/30/2015 08:21 AM, Marcus Granado wrote: Hi, Our measurements for the multiqueue patch indicate a clear improvement in iops when more queues are used. The measurements were obtained under the following conditions: - using blkback as the dom0 backend with the multiqueue patch applied to a dom0 kernel 4.0 on 8 vcpus. - using a recent Ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19 with multiqueue frontend applied to be used as a guest on 4 vcpus - using a micron RealSSD P320h as the underlying local storage on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 Xeon E5-2643 v2 cpus. - fio 2.2.7-22-g36870 as the generator of synthetic loads in the guest. We used direct_io to skip caching in the guest and ran fio for 60s reading a number of block sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 4MiB. Queue depth of 32 for each queue was used to saturate individual vcpus in the guest. We were interested in observing storage iops for different values of block sizes. Our expectation was that iops would improve when increasing the number of queues, because both the guest and dom0 would be able to make use of more vcpus to handle these requests. These are the results (as aggregate iops for all the fio threads) that we got for the conditions above with sequential reads: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops 8 32 512 158K 264K 8 321K 157K 260K 8 322K 157K 258K 8 324K 148K 257K 8 328K 124K 207K 8 32 16K84K 105K 8 32 32K50K 54K 8 32 64K24K 27K 8 32 128K11K 13K 8-queue iops was better than single queue iops for all the block sizes. There were very good improvements as well for sequential writes with block size 4K (from 80K iops with single queue to 230K iops with 8 queues), and no regressions were visible in any measurement performed. Great results! And I don't know why this code has lingered for so long, so thanks for helping get some attention to this again. Personally I'd be really interested in the results for the same set of tests, but without the blk-mq patches. Do you have them, or could you potentially run them? Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. blk-mq still provides merging, there should be no difference there. Does the xen patches set BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE? Yes. Is it possible that xen-blkfront driver dequeue requests too fast after we have multiple hardware queues? Because new requests don't have the chance merging with old requests which were already dequeued and issued. For some reason we don't see merges even when we set multiqueue to 1. Below are some stats from the guest system when doing sequential 4KB reads: $ fio --name=test --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --rw=read --numjobs=8 --iodepth=32 --time_based=1 --runtime=300 --bs=4KB --filename=/dev/xvdb $ iostat -xt 5 /dev/xvdb avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 08/10/2015 05:03 AM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 01/07/15 04:03, Jens Axboe wrote: On 06/30/2015 08:21 AM, Marcus Granado wrote: Hi, Our measurements for the multiqueue patch indicate a clear improvement in iops when more queues are used. The measurements were obtained under the following conditions: - using blkback as the dom0 backend with the multiqueue patch applied to a dom0 kernel 4.0 on 8 vcpus. - using a recent Ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19 with multiqueue frontend applied to be used as a guest on 4 vcpus - using a micron RealSSD P320h as the underlying local storage on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 Xeon E5-2643 v2 cpus. - fio 2.2.7-22-g36870 as the generator of synthetic loads in the guest. We used direct_io to skip caching in the guest and ran fio for 60s reading a number of block sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 4MiB. Queue depth of 32 for each queue was used to saturate individual vcpus in the guest. We were interested in observing storage iops for different values of block sizes. Our expectation was that iops would improve when increasing the number of queues, because both the guest and dom0 would be able to make use of more vcpus to handle these requests. These are the results (as aggregate iops for all the fio threads) that we got for the conditions above with sequential reads: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops 8 32 512 158K 264K 8 321K 157K 260K 8 322K 157K 258K 8 324K 148K 257K 8 328K 124K 207K 8 32 16K84K 105K 8 32 32K50K 54K 8 32 64K24K 27K 8 32 128K11K 13K 8-queue iops was better than single queue iops for all the block sizes. There were very good improvements as well for sequential writes with block size 4K (from 80K iops with single queue to 230K iops with 8 queues), and no regressions were visible in any measurement performed. Great results! And I don't know why this code has lingered for so long, so thanks for helping get some attention to this again. Personally I'd be really interested in the results for the same set of tests, but without the blk-mq patches. Do you have them, or could you potentially run them? Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. blk-mq still provides merging, there should be no difference there. Does the xen patches set BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE? -- Jens Axboe ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 08/10/2015 07:03 PM, Rafal Mielniczuk wrote: On 01/07/15 04:03, Jens Axboe wrote: On 06/30/2015 08:21 AM, Marcus Granado wrote: Hi, Our measurements for the multiqueue patch indicate a clear improvement in iops when more queues are used. The measurements were obtained under the following conditions: - using blkback as the dom0 backend with the multiqueue patch applied to a dom0 kernel 4.0 on 8 vcpus. - using a recent Ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19 with multiqueue frontend applied to be used as a guest on 4 vcpus - using a micron RealSSD P320h as the underlying local storage on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 Xeon E5-2643 v2 cpus. - fio 2.2.7-22-g36870 as the generator of synthetic loads in the guest. We used direct_io to skip caching in the guest and ran fio for 60s reading a number of block sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 4MiB. Queue depth of 32 for each queue was used to saturate individual vcpus in the guest. We were interested in observing storage iops for different values of block sizes. Our expectation was that iops would improve when increasing the number of queues, because both the guest and dom0 would be able to make use of more vcpus to handle these requests. These are the results (as aggregate iops for all the fio threads) that we got for the conditions above with sequential reads: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops 8 32 512 158K 264K 8 321K 157K 260K 8 322K 157K 258K 8 324K 148K 257K 8 328K 124K 207K 8 32 16K84K 105K 8 32 32K50K 54K 8 32 64K24K 27K 8 32 128K11K 13K 8-queue iops was better than single queue iops for all the block sizes. There were very good improvements as well for sequential writes with block size 4K (from 80K iops with single queue to 230K iops with 8 queues), and no regressions were visible in any measurement performed. Great results! And I don't know why this code has lingered for so long, so thanks for helping get some attention to this again. Personally I'd be really interested in the results for the same set of tests, but without the blk-mq patches. Do you have them, or could you potentially run them? Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD Which block scheduler was used in domU? Please try to cat /sys/block/sdxxx/queue/scheduler. How about the result if using noop scheduler? Thanks, Bob Liu As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. Rafal ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 01/07/15 04:03, Jens Axboe wrote: On 06/30/2015 08:21 AM, Marcus Granado wrote: Hi, Our measurements for the multiqueue patch indicate a clear improvement in iops when more queues are used. The measurements were obtained under the following conditions: - using blkback as the dom0 backend with the multiqueue patch applied to a dom0 kernel 4.0 on 8 vcpus. - using a recent Ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19 with multiqueue frontend applied to be used as a guest on 4 vcpus - using a micron RealSSD P320h as the underlying local storage on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 Xeon E5-2643 v2 cpus. - fio 2.2.7-22-g36870 as the generator of synthetic loads in the guest. We used direct_io to skip caching in the guest and ran fio for 60s reading a number of block sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 4MiB. Queue depth of 32 for each queue was used to saturate individual vcpus in the guest. We were interested in observing storage iops for different values of block sizes. Our expectation was that iops would improve when increasing the number of queues, because both the guest and dom0 would be able to make use of more vcpus to handle these requests. These are the results (as aggregate iops for all the fio threads) that we got for the conditions above with sequential reads: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops 8 32 512 158K 264K 8 321K 157K 260K 8 322K 157K 258K 8 324K 148K 257K 8 328K 124K 207K 8 32 16K84K 105K 8 32 32K50K 54K 8 32 64K24K 27K 8 32 128K11K 13K 8-queue iops was better than single queue iops for all the block sizes. There were very good improvements as well for sequential writes with block size 4K (from 80K iops with single queue to 230K iops with 8 queues), and no regressions were visible in any measurement performed. Great results! And I don't know why this code has lingered for so long, so thanks for helping get some attention to this again. Personally I'd be really interested in the results for the same set of tests, but without the blk-mq patches. Do you have them, or could you potentially run them? Hello, We rerun the tests for sequential reads with the identical settings but with Bob Liu's multiqueue patches reverted from dom0 and guest kernels. The results we obtained were *better* than the results we got with multiqueue patches applied: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops *no-mq-patches_iops* 8 32 512 158K 264K 321K 8 321K 157K 260K 328K 8 322K 157K 258K 336K 8 324K 148K 257K 308K 8 328K 124K 207K 188K 8 32 16K84K 105K 82K 8 32 32K50K 54K 36K 8 32 64K24K 27K 16K 8 32 128K11K 13K 11K We noticed that the requests are not merged by the guest when the multiqueue patches are applied, which results in a regression for small block sizes (RealSSD P320h's optimal block size is around 32-64KB). We observed similar regression for the Dell MZ-5EA1000-0D3 100 GB 2.5 Internal SSD As I understand blk-mq layer bypasses I/O scheduler which also effectively disables merges. Could you explain why it is difficult to enable merging in the blk-mq layer? That could help closing the performance gap we observed. Otherwise, the tests shows that the multiqueue patches does not improve the performance, at least when it comes to sequential read/writes operations. Rafal ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 06/30/2015 08:21 AM, Marcus Granado wrote: On 13/05/15 11:29, Bob Liu wrote: On 04/28/2015 03:46 PM, Arianna Avanzini wrote: Hello Christoph, Il 28/04/2015 09:36, Christoph Hellwig ha scritto: What happened to this patchset? It was passed on to Bob Liu, who published a follow-up patchset here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/15/46 Right, and then I was interrupted by another xen-block feature: 'multi-page' ring. Will back on this patchset soon. Thank you! -Bob Hi, Our measurements for the multiqueue patch indicate a clear improvement in iops when more queues are used. The measurements were obtained under the following conditions: - using blkback as the dom0 backend with the multiqueue patch applied to a dom0 kernel 4.0 on 8 vcpus. - using a recent Ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19 with multiqueue frontend applied to be used as a guest on 4 vcpus - using a micron RealSSD P320h as the underlying local storage on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 Xeon E5-2643 v2 cpus. - fio 2.2.7-22-g36870 as the generator of synthetic loads in the guest. We used direct_io to skip caching in the guest and ran fio for 60s reading a number of block sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 4MiB. Queue depth of 32 for each queue was used to saturate individual vcpus in the guest. We were interested in observing storage iops for different values of block sizes. Our expectation was that iops would improve when increasing the number of queues, because both the guest and dom0 would be able to make use of more vcpus to handle these requests. These are the results (as aggregate iops for all the fio threads) that we got for the conditions above with sequential reads: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops 8 32 512 158K 264K 8 321K 157K 260K 8 322K 157K 258K 8 324K 148K 257K 8 328K 124K 207K 8 32 16K84K 105K 8 32 32K50K 54K 8 32 64K24K 27K 8 32 128K11K 13K 8-queue iops was better than single queue iops for all the block sizes. There were very good improvements as well for sequential writes with block size 4K (from 80K iops with single queue to 230K iops with 8 queues), and no regressions were visible in any measurement performed. Great results! And I don't know why this code has lingered for so long, so thanks for helping get some attention to this again. Personally I'd be really interested in the results for the same set of tests, but without the blk-mq patches. Do you have them, or could you potentially run them? -- Jens Axboe ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 06/30/2015 10:21 PM, Marcus Granado wrote: On 13/05/15 11:29, Bob Liu wrote: On 04/28/2015 03:46 PM, Arianna Avanzini wrote: Hello Christoph, Il 28/04/2015 09:36, Christoph Hellwig ha scritto: What happened to this patchset? It was passed on to Bob Liu, who published a follow-up patchset here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/15/46 Right, and then I was interrupted by another xen-block feature: 'multi-page' ring. Will back on this patchset soon. Thank you! -Bob Hi, Our measurements for the multiqueue patch indicate a clear improvement in iops when more queues are used. The measurements were obtained under the following conditions: - using blkback as the dom0 backend with the multiqueue patch applied to a dom0 kernel 4.0 on 8 vcpus. - using a recent Ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19 with multiqueue frontend applied to be used as a guest on 4 vcpus - using a micron RealSSD P320h as the underlying local storage on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 Xeon E5-2643 v2 cpus. - fio 2.2.7-22-g36870 as the generator of synthetic loads in the guest. We used direct_io to skip caching in the guest and ran fio for 60s reading a number of block sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 4MiB. Queue depth of 32 for each queue was used to saturate individual vcpus in the guest. We were interested in observing storage iops for different values of block sizes. Our expectation was that iops would improve when increasing the number of queues, because both the guest and dom0 would be able to make use of more vcpus to handle these requests. These are the results (as aggregate iops for all the fio threads) that we got for the conditions above with sequential reads: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops 8 32 512 158K 264K 8 321K 157K 260K 8 322K 157K 258K 8 324K 148K 257K 8 328K 124K 207K 8 32 16K84K 105K 8 32 32K50K 54K 8 32 64K24K 27K 8 32 128K11K 13K 8-queue iops was better than single queue iops for all the block sizes. There were very good improvements as well for sequential writes with block size 4K (from 80K iops with single queue to 230K iops with 8 queues), and no regressions were visible in any measurement performed. Great! Thank you very much for the test. I'm trying to rebase these patches to the latest kernel version(v4.1) and will send out in following days. -- Regards, -Bob ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 13/05/15 11:29, Bob Liu wrote: On 04/28/2015 03:46 PM, Arianna Avanzini wrote: Hello Christoph, Il 28/04/2015 09:36, Christoph Hellwig ha scritto: What happened to this patchset? It was passed on to Bob Liu, who published a follow-up patchset here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/15/46 Right, and then I was interrupted by another xen-block feature: 'multi-page' ring. Will back on this patchset soon. Thank you! -Bob Hi, Our measurements for the multiqueue patch indicate a clear improvement in iops when more queues are used. The measurements were obtained under the following conditions: - using blkback as the dom0 backend with the multiqueue patch applied to a dom0 kernel 4.0 on 8 vcpus. - using a recent Ubuntu 15.04 kernel 3.19 with multiqueue frontend applied to be used as a guest on 4 vcpus - using a micron RealSSD P320h as the underlying local storage on a Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 Xeon E5-2643 v2 cpus. - fio 2.2.7-22-g36870 as the generator of synthetic loads in the guest. We used direct_io to skip caching in the guest and ran fio for 60s reading a number of block sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 4MiB. Queue depth of 32 for each queue was used to saturate individual vcpus in the guest. We were interested in observing storage iops for different values of block sizes. Our expectation was that iops would improve when increasing the number of queues, because both the guest and dom0 would be able to make use of more vcpus to handle these requests. These are the results (as aggregate iops for all the fio threads) that we got for the conditions above with sequential reads: fio_threads io_depth block_size 1-queue_iops 8-queue_iops 8 32 512 158K 264K 8 321K 157K 260K 8 322K 157K 258K 8 324K 148K 257K 8 328K 124K 207K 8 32 16K84K 105K 8 32 32K50K 54K 8 32 64K24K 27K 8 32 128K11K 13K 8-queue iops was better than single queue iops for all the block sizes. There were very good improvements as well for sequential writes with block size 4K (from 80K iops with single queue to 230K iops with 8 queues), and no regressions were visible in any measurement performed. Marcus ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
On 04/28/2015 03:46 PM, Arianna Avanzini wrote: Hello Christoph, Il 28/04/2015 09:36, Christoph Hellwig ha scritto: What happened to this patchset? It was passed on to Bob Liu, who published a follow-up patchset here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/15/46 Right, and then I was interrupted by another xen-block feature: 'multi-page' ring. Will back on this patchset soon. Thank you! -Bob ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
What happened to this patchset? ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback
Hello Christoph, Il 28/04/2015 09:36, Christoph Hellwig ha scritto: What happened to this patchset? It was passed on to Bob Liu, who published a follow-up patchset here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/15/46 Thanks, Arianna ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
