On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 4:02 PM Vrgotic, Marko <m.vrgo...@activevideo.com>
wrote:

> Hi oVirt gurus,
>
>
>
> Thank s to Tony, who pointed me into discovery process, the performance of
> the IO seems greatly dependent on the flags.
>
>
>
> [root@lgu215 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=512 count=100000
>
> 100000+0 records in
>
> 100000+0 records out
>
> 51200000 bytes (51 MB) copied, 0.108962 s, *470 MB/s*
>
> [root@lgu215 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=512 count=100000
> *oflag=dsync*
>
> 100000+0 records in
>
> 100000+0 records out
>
> 51200000 bytes (51 MB) copied, 322.314 s, *159 kB/s*
>
>
>
> Dsync flag tells dd to ignore all buffers, cache except certain kernel
> buffers and write data physically to the disc, before writing further.
> According to number of sites I looked at, this is the way to test Server
> Latency in regards to IO operations. Difference in performance is huge, as
> you can see (below I have added results from tests with 4k and 8k block)
>
>
>
> Still, certain software component we run tests with writes data in
> this/similar way, which is why I got this complaint in the first place.
>
>
>
> Here is my current NFS mount settings:
>
>
> rw,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,soft,nosharecache,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=6,sec=sys,clientaddr=172.17.28.11,local_lock=none,addr=172.17.28.5
>
>
>
> *If you have any suggestions on possible NFS tuning options, to try to
> increase performance, I would highly appreciate it.*
>
*Can someone tell me how to change NFS mount options in oVirt for already
> existing/used storage?*
>

Taking into account your network configured MTU [1] and Linux version [2],
you can tune wsize, rsize mount options.
Editing mount options can be done from Storage->Domains->Manage Domain menu.

[1]  https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2440411
[2] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/753853

>
>
>
>
> Test results with 4096 and 8192 byte size.
>
> [root@lgu215 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=4096 count=100000
>
> 100000+0 records in
>
> 100000+0 records out
>
> 409600000 bytes (410 MB) copied, 1.49831 s, *273 MB/s*
>
> [root@lgu215-admin ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=4096
> count=100000 *oflag=dsync*
>
> 100000+0 records in
>
> 100000+0 records out
>
> 409600000 bytes (410 MB) copied, 349.041 s, *1.2 MB/s*
>
>
>
> [root@lgu215 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=8192 count=100000
>
> 100000+0 records in
>
> 100000+0 records out
>
> 819200000 bytes (819 MB) copied, 11.6553 s, *70.3 MB/s*
>
> [root@lgu215-admin ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test1.img bs=8192
> count=100000 *oflag=dsync*
>
> 100000+0 records in
>
> 100000+0 records out
>
> 819200000 bytes (819 MB) copied, 393.035 s, *2.1 MB/s*
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *"Vrgotic, Marko" <m.vrgo...@activevideo.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 09:51
> *To: *Amit Bawer <aba...@redhat.com>
> *Cc: *Tony Brian Albers <t...@kb.dk>, "hunter86...@yahoo.com" <
> hunter86...@yahoo.com>, "users@ovirt.org" <users@ovirt.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [ovirt-users] Re: Super Low VM disk IO via Shared Storage
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I very much appreciate all help and suggestions so far.
>
>
>
> Today I will send the test results and current mount settings for NFS4.
> Our production setup is using Netapp based NFS server.
>
>
>
> I am surprised with results from Tony’s test.
>
> We also have one setup with Gluster based NFS, and I will run tests on
> those as well.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>
> On 25 Sep 2019, at 14:18, Amit Bawer <aba...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:44 PM Tony Brian Albers <t...@kb.dk> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> Just for info, this is what I'm getting on a VM that is on shared
> storage via NFSv3:
>
> --------------------------snip----------------------
> [root@proj-000 ~]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=4096
> count=1000000
> 1000000+0 records in
> 1000000+0 records out
> 4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 18.0984 s, 226 MB/s
>
> real    0m18.171s
> user    0m1.077s
> sys     0m4.303s
> [root@proj-000 ~]#
> --------------------------snip----------------------
>
> my /etc/exports:
> /data/ovirt
> *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=36,anongid=36)
>
> and output from 'mount' on one of the hosts:
>
> sto-001.kac.lokalnet:/data/ovirt on /rhev/data-center/mnt/sto-
> 001.kac.lokalnet:_data_ovirt type nfs
> (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,soft,nolock,
> nosharecache,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=6,sec=sys,mountaddr=172.16.216
> .41,mountvers=3,mountport=20048,mountproto=udp,local_lock=all,addr=172.
> 16.216.41)
>
>
>
> Worth to compare mount options with the slow shared NFSv4 mount.
>
>
>
> Window size tuning can be found at bottom of [1], although its relating to
> NFSv3, it could be relevant to v4 as well.
>
> [1] https://www.ovirt.org/develop/troubleshooting-nfs-storage-issues.html
>
>
>
>
> connected via single 10gbit ethernet. Storage on NFS server is 8 x 4TB
> SATA disks in RAID10. NFS server is running CentOS 7.6.
>
> Maybe you can get some inspiration from this.
>
> /tony
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 09:59 +0000, Vrgotic, Marko wrote:
> > Dear Strahil, Amit,
> >
> > Thank you for the suggestion.
> > Test result with block size 4096:
> > Network storage:
> > avshared:
> > [root@mpoludctest4udc-1 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test2.img bs=4096
> > count=100000 oflag=dsync
> > 100000+0 records in
> > 100000+0 records out
> > 409600000 bytes (410 MB) copied, 275.522 s, 1.5 MB/s
> >
> > Local storage:
> >
> > avlocal2:
> > [root@mpollocalcheck22 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test2.img bs=4096
> > count=100000 oflag=dsync
> > 100000+0 records in
> > 100000+0 records out
> > 409600000 bytes (410 MB) copied, 53.093 s, 7.7 MB/s
> > 10:38
> > avlocal3:
> > [root@mpollocalcheck3 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test2.img bs=4096
> > count=100000 oflag=dsync
> > 100000+0 records in
> > 100000+0 records out
> > 409600000 bytes (410 MB) copied, 46.0392 s, 8.9 MB/s
> >
> > As Amit suggested, I am also going to execute same tests on the
> > BareMetals and between BareMetal and NFS to compare results.
> >
> >
> > — — —
> > Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
> >
> > Marko Vrgotic
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Strahil <hunter86...@yahoo.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, 24 September 2019 at 19:10
> > To: "Vrgotic, Marko" <m.vrgo...@activevideo.com>, Amit <abawer@redhat
> > .com>
> > Cc: users <users@ovirt.org>
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: Super Low VM disk IO via Shared
> > Storage
> >
> > Why don't you try with 4096 ?
> > Most block devices have a blcok size of 4096 and anything bellow is
> > slowing them down.
> > Best Regards,
> > Strahil Nikolov
> > On Sep 24, 2019 17:40, Amit Bawer <aba...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > have you reproduced performance issue when checking this directly
> > with the shared storage mount, outside the VMs?
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 4:53 PM Vrgotic, Marko <M.Vrgotic@activevideo
> > .com> wrote:
> > Dear oVirt,
> >
> > I have executed some tests regarding IO disk speed on the VMs,
> > running on shared storage and local storage in oVirt.
> >
> > Results of the tests on local storage domains:
> > avlocal2:
> > [root@mpollocalcheck22 ~]#  dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test2.img bs=512
> > count=100000 oflag=dsync
> > 100000+0 records in
> > 100000+0 records out
> > 51200000 bytes (51 MB) copied, 45.9756 s, 1.1 MB/s
> >
> > avlocal3:
> > [root@mpollocalcheck3 ~]#  dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test2.img bs=512
> > count=100000 oflag=dsync
> > 100000+0 records in
> > 100000+0 records out
> > 51200000 bytes (51 MB) copied, 43.6179 s, 1.2 MB/s
> >
> > Results of the test on shared storage domain:
> > avshared:
> > [root@mpoludctest4udc-1 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test2.img bs=512
> > count=100000 oflag=dsync
> > 100000+0 records in
> > 100000+0 records out
> > 51200000 bytes (51 MB) copied, 283.499 s, 181 kB/s
> >
> > Why is it so low? Is there anything I can do to tune, configure VDSM
> > or other service to speed this up?
> > Any advice is appreciated.
> >
> > Shared storage is based on Netapp with 20Gbps LACP path from
> > Hypervisor to Netapp volume, and set to MTU 9000. Used protocol is
> > NFS4.0.
> > oVirt is 4.3.4.3 SHE.
> >
> >
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