Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752563AbaAJOc4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:32:56 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f173.google.com ([74.125.82.173]:45928 "EHLO mail-we0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750931AbaAJOcx (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:32:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140110104837.GG26378@quack.suse.cz> References: <20140107155830.GA28395@infradead.org> <20140108140307.GA588@infradead.org> <20140108152610.GA5863@infradead.org> <20140108205524.GA15313@quack.suse.cz> <20140110093623.GD26378@quack.suse.cz> <20140110104837.GG26378@quack.suse.cz> From: Sergey Meirovich Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:32:31 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Terrible performance of sequential O_DIRECT 4k writes in SAN environment. ~3 times slower then Solars 10 with the same HBA/Storage. To: Jan Kara Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Gluk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Jan, On 10 January 2014 12:48, Jan Kara wrote: > On Fri 10-01-14 12:36:22, Sergey Meirovich wrote: >> Hi Jan, >> >> On 10 January 2014 11:36, Jan Kara wrote: >> > On Thu 09-01-14 12:11:16, Sergey Meirovich wrote: >> ... >> >> I've done preallocation on fnic/XtremIO as Christoph suggested. >> >> >> >> [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 mnt]# sysbench --max-requests=0 >> >> --file-extra-flags=direct --test=fileio --num-threads=4 >> >> --file-total-size=10G --file-io-mode=async --file-async-backlog=1024 >> >> --file-rw-ratio=1 --file-fsync-freq=0 --max-requests=0 >> >> --file-test-mode=seqwr --max-time=100 --file-block-size=4K prepare >> >> sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark >> >> >> >> 128 files, 81920Kb each, 10240Mb total >> >> Creating files for the test... >> >> [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 mnt]# du -k test_file.* | awk '{print $1}' |sort |uniq >> >> 81920 >> >> [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 mnt]# fallocate -l 81920k test_file.* >> >> >> >> Results: 13.042Mb/sec 3338.73 Requests/sec >> >> >> >> Probably sysbench is still triggering append DIO scenario. Will say >> >> simple wrapper over io_submit() against already preallocated (and even >> >> filled with data) file provide much better throughput if your theory >> >> is valid? >> > So I was experimenting a bit. "sysbench prepare" seems to always do >> > synchronous IO from a single thread in the 'prepare' phase regardless of >> > the arguments. So there the reported throughput isn't really relevant. >> > >> > In the 'run' phase it obeys the arguments and indeed when I run fallocate >> > to preallocate files during 'run' phase, it significantly helps the >> > throughput (from 20 MB/s to 55 MB/s on my SATA drive). >> >> Sorry, Jan. Seems that I presented my findings in a previous mail in >> ambiguous style . I know that prepare phase of sysbench is >> synchronous/probably buffered (because I saw 512k chunks sent down to >> HBA)? IO. I played with blocktrace and have seen that myself during >> prepare: >> >> [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 mnt]# sysbench --max-requests=0 >> --file-extra-flags=direct --test=fileio --num-threads=4 >> --file-total-size=10G --file-io-mode=async --file-async-backlog=1024 >> --file-rw-ratio=1 --file-fsync-freq=0 --max-requests=0 >> --file-test-mode=seqwr --max-time=100 --file-block-size=4K prepare >> ... >> >> Leads to: >> >> [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 mnt]# blktrace -d /dev/sdg -o - | blkparse -i - >> | grep 'D W' >> 8,96 14 604 53.129805520 28114 D WS 1116160 + 1024 [sysbench] >> 8,96 14 607 53.129843345 28114 D WS 1120256 + 1024 [sysbench] >> 8,96 14 610 53.129873782 28114 D WS 1124352 + 1024 [sysbench] >> 8,96 14 613 53.129903703 28114 D WS 1128448 + 1024 [sysbench] >> 8,96 14 616 53.130957213 28114 D WS 1132544 + 1024 [sysbench] >> 8,96 14 619 53.130988835 28114 D WS 1136640 + 1024 [sysbench] >> 8,96 14 622 53.131018854 28114 D WS 1140736 + 1024 [sysbench] >> ... > Ah, ok. I misuderstood what you wrote then. > >> That result "13.042Mb/sec 3338.73 Requests/sec" was from run phase >> and before it fallocate had been made. >> >> blktrace from run phase looks very different. 4k as expected. >> [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 ~]# blktrace -d /dev/sdg -o - | blkparse -i - | >> grep 'D W' >> 8,96 5 3 0.000001874 28212 D WS 1847296 + 8 [sysbench] >> 8,96 5 7 0.001213728 28212 D WS 1847304 + 8 [sysbench] >> 8,96 5 11 0.002779304 28212 D WS 1847312 + 8 [sysbench] >> 8,96 5 15 0.004486445 28212 D WS 1847320 + 8 [sysbench] >> 8,96 5 19 0.006012133 28212 D WS 22691864 + 8 [sysbench] >> 8,96 5 23 0.007781553 28212 D WS 22691896 + 8 [sysbench] >> 8,96 5 27 0.009043404 28212 D WS 22691928 + 8 [sysbench] >> 8,96 5 31 0.010546829 28212 D WS 22691960 + 8 [sysbench] >> 8,96 5 35 0.012214468 28212 D WS 22691992 + 8 [sysbench] >> 8,96 5 39 0.013792616 28212 D WS 22692024 + 8 [sysbench] >> ... > Strange - I see: > 8,32 7 2 0.000086080 0 D WS 1869752 + 1024 [swapper] > 8,32 7 7 0.041126425 0 D WS 1874712 + 24 [swapper] > 8,32 7 6 0.041054543 0 D WS 1871792 + 416 [swapper] > 8,32 7 7 0.041126425 0 D WS 1874712 + 24 [swapper] > 8,32 6 118 0.042761949 28952 D WS 1875416 + 528 [sysbench] > 8,32 6 143 0.042995928 28952 D WS 1876888 + 48 [sysbench] > 8,32 5 352 0.045154160 28955 D WS 1876936 + 168 [sysbench] > 8,32 6 444 0.045527660 28952 D WS 1878296 + 992 [sysbench] > ... > > Not ideal but significantly better. The only idea I have: Didn't you run > fallocate(1) before you started the 'run' phase? Because 'run' phase > truncates the files before doing io to them. Can you check that during run > phase (after fallocate is run) the file size is constantly at 80MB? Jan, I believe your initial theory that append AIO is equal to Synchronous DIO is absolutely correct. I've given up sysbench and written simple dirty wrapper around io_submit() and run it against preallocated file.. XtremIO is doing online deduplication so results were wonderful 694.25 MB/s 177728.84 Req/sec [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 mnt]# dd if=/dev/zero of=4k.data bs=4096 count=524288 524288+0 records in 524288+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 5.75357 s, 373 MB/s [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 mnt]# ./4k io_submit() accepted 524288 IOs io_getevents() returned 524288 events time elapsed (sec.): 2.949932 bandwidth (MiB/s): 694.25 IOps: 177728.84 [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 mnt]# ... [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 ~]# vmstat 1 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu----- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 0 260598160 260540 1896032 0 0 3 24 11 12 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 260598256 260544 1896032 0 0 0 16 1106 378 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 260598288 260544 1896032 0 0 0 0 1093 373 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 260499536 260544 1928368 0 0 0 293820 2782 1438 0 1 99 0 0 2 0 0 260484816 260544 1928804 0 0 0 820152 5575 3146 0 3 97 0 0 1 0 0 260481680 260544 1928804 0 0 0 710028 4844 2947 0 3 97 0 0 1 0 0 260548384 260544 1928804 0 0 0 273168 2187 1744 0 2 98 0 0 0 0 0 260549088 260544 1928804 0 0 0 4 1156 426 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 260549472 260544 1928804 0 0 0 0 1082 328 0 0 100 0 0 ^C [root@dca-poc-gtsxdb3 ~]# ========================== io_submit() wrapper ============================= #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define FNAME "4k.data" #define IOSIZE 4096 #define REQUESTS 524288 /* gcc 4k.c -std=gnu99 -laio -o 4k */ int main(void) { io_context_t ctx; int ret; int flag = O_RDWR | O_DIRECT; int fd = open(FNAME, flag); if (fd == -1) { printf("open(%s, %d) - failed!\nExiting.\n" "If file doesn't exist please precreate it " "with dd if=/dev/zero of=%s bs=%d count=%d\n", FNAME, flag, FNAME, IOSIZE, REQUESTS); return errno; } memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(io_context_t)); if (io_setup(REQUESTS, &ctx)) { printf("io_setup(%d, &ctx) failed\n", REQUESTS); return -ret; } void *mem = NULL; posix_memalign(&mem, 4096, IOSIZE); memset(mem, 9, IOSIZE); struct iocb *aio = malloc(sizeof(struct iocb) * REQUESTS); memset(aio, 0, sizeof(struct iocb) * REQUESTS); struct iocb **lio = malloc(sizeof(void *) * REQUESTS); memset(lio, 0, sizeof(void *) * REQUESTS); struct io_event *event = malloc(sizeof(struct io_event) * REQUESTS); memset(event, 0, sizeof(struct io_event) * REQUESTS); for (int i = 0; i < REQUESTS; i++) { io_prep_pwrite(&aio[i], fd, mem, IOSIZE, i * IOSIZE); lio[i] = &aio[i]; } struct timeval start, end; gettimeofday(&start, NULL); ret = io_submit(ctx, REQUESTS, lio); printf("io_submit() accepted %d IOs\n", ret); fdatasync(fd); ret = io_getevents(ctx, REQUESTS, REQUESTS, event, NULL); printf("io_getevents() returned %d events\n", ret); gettimeofday(&end, NULL); double elapsed = (end.tv_sec - start.tv_sec) + ((end.tv_usec - start.tv_usec)/1000000.0); printf("time elapsed (sec.):\t%2f\n", elapsed); printf("bandwidth (MiB/s):\t%.2f\n", (double) (((long long) IOSIZE * REQUESTS) / (1024 * 1024)) / elapsed); printf("IOps:\t\t\t%.2f\n", (double) REQUESTS / elapsed); if (io_destroy(ctx)) { perror("io_destroy"); return -1; } free(aio); free(lio); free(event); return 0; } > > Honza > -- > Jan Kara > SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/