Hi Alexandre, i'm talking about a newly created cluster under jewel. Should straw2 bee the default? I'm always using ceph osd crush tunables optimal. Greets, Stefan Am 02.05.2017 um 08:29 schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER: >>> I created a new cluster under jewel but straw1 still seems to be the >>> default? > > Hi Stefan, > > you need to upgrade ceph tunables > > http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/crush-map/ > > > I think straw2 is since hammer tunables (CRUSH_V4 tunables) > > > ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Stefan Priebe, Profihost AG" <s.priebe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > À: "Loic Dachary" <loic@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Envoyé: Mardi 2 Mai 2017 07:48:26 > Objet: Re: revisiting uneven CRUSH distributions > > I created a new cluster under jewel but straw1 still seems to be the > default? > > Greets, > Stefan > > Am 02.05.2017 um 07:43 schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG: >> Hi Loic, >> >> yes i didn't changed them to straw2 as i didn't saw any difference. I >> switched to straw2 now but it didn't change anything at all. >> >> If i use those weights manuall i've to adjust them on every crush change >> on the cluster? That's something i don't really like to do. >> >> Greets, >> Stefan >> >> Am 02.05.2017 um 01:12 schrieb Loic Dachary: >>> It is working, with straw2 (your cluster still is using straw). >>> >>> For instance for one host it goes from: >>> >>> ~expected~ ~objects~ ~over/under used %~ ~delta~ ~delta%~ >>> ~name~ >>> osd.24 149 159 6.65 10.0 6.71 >>> osd.29 149 159 6.65 10.0 6.71 >>> osd.0 69 77 11.04 8.0 11.59 >>> osd.2 69 69 -0.50 0.0 0.00 >>> osd.42 149 148 -0.73 -1.0 -0.67 >>> osd.1 69 62 -10.59 -7.0 -10.14 >>> osd.23 69 62 -10.59 -7.0 -10.14 >>> osd.36 149 132 -11.46 -17.0 -11.41 >>> >>> to >>> >>> ~expected~ ~objects~ ~over/under used %~ ~delta~ ~delta%~ >>> ~name~ >>> osd.0 69 69 -0.50 0.0 0.00 >>> osd.23 69 69 -0.50 0.0 0.00 >>> osd.24 149 149 -0.06 0.0 0.00 >>> osd.29 149 149 -0.06 0.0 0.00 >>> osd.36 149 149 -0.06 0.0 0.00 >>> osd.1 69 68 -1.94 -1.0 -1.45 >>> osd.2 69 68 -1.94 -1.0 -1.45 >>> osd.42 149 147 -1.40 -2.0 -1.34 >>> >>> By changing the weights to >>> >>> [0.6609248140022604, 0.9148542821020436, 0.8174711575190294, 0.8870680217468655, 1.6031393139865695, 1.5871079208467038, 1.8784764188501162, 1.7308530904776616] >>> >>> And you could set these weights on the crushmap, there would be no need for backporting. >>> >>> >>> On 05/01/2017 08:06 PM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: >>>> Am 01.05.2017 um 19:47 schrieb Loic Dachary: >>>>> Hi Stefan, >>>>> >>>>> On 05/01/2017 07:15 PM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: >>>>>> That sounds amazing! Is there any chance this will be backported to jewel? >>>>> >>>>> There should be ways to make that work with kraken and jewel. It may not even require a backport. If you know of a cluster with an uneven distribution, it would be great if you could send the crushmap so that I can test the algorithm. I'm still not sure this is the right solution and it would help confirm that. >>>> >>>> I've lots of them ;-) >>>> >>>> Will sent you one via private e-mail in some minutes. >>>> >>>> Greets, >>>> Stefan >>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Greets, >>>>>> Stefan >>>>>> >>>>>> Am 30.04.2017 um 16:15 schrieb Loic Dachary: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ideally CRUSH distributes PGs evenly on OSDs so that they all fill in >>>>>>> the same proportion. If an OSD is 75% full, it is expected that all >>>>>>> other OSDs are also 75% full. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In reality the distribution is even only when more than 100,000 PGs >>>>>>> are distributed in a pool of size 1 (i.e. no replication). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In small clusters there are a few thousands PGs and it is not enough >>>>>>> to get an even distribution. Running the following with >>>>>>> python-crush[1], shows a 15% difference when distributing 1,000 PGs on >>>>>>> 6 devices. Only with 1,000,000 PGs does the difference drop under 1%. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> for PGs in 1000 10000 100000 1000000 ; do >>>>>>> crush analyze --replication-count 1 \ >>>>>>> --type device \ >>>>>>> --values-count $PGs \ >>>>>>> --rule data \ >>>>>>> --crushmap tests/sample-crushmap.json >>>>>>> done >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In larger clusters, even though a greater number of PGs are >>>>>>> distributed, there are at most a few dozens devices per host and the >>>>>>> problem remains. On a machine with 24 OSDs each expected to handle a >>>>>>> few hundred PGs, a total of a few thousands PGs are distributed which >>>>>>> is not enough to get an even distribution. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There is a secondary reason for the distribution to be uneven, when >>>>>>> there is more than one replica. The second replica must be on a >>>>>>> different device than the first replica. This conditional probability >>>>>>> is not taken into account by CRUSH and would create an uneven >>>>>>> distribution if more than 10,000 PGs were distributed per OSD[2]. But >>>>>>> a given OSD can only handle a few hundred PGs and this conditional >>>>>>> probability bias is dominated by the uneven distribution caused by the >>>>>>> low number of PGs. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The uneven CRUSH distributions are always caused by a low number of >>>>>>> samples, even in large clusters. Since this noise (i.e. the difference >>>>>>> between the desired distribution and the actual distribution) is >>>>>>> random, it cannot be fixed by optimizations methods. The >>>>>>> Nedler-Mead[3] simplex converges to a local minimum that is far from >>>>>>> the optimal minimum in many cases. Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno[4] >>>>>>> fails to find a gradient that would allow it to converge faster. And >>>>>>> even if it did, the local minimum found would be as often wrong as >>>>>>> with Nedler-Mead, only it would go faster. A least mean squares >>>>>>> filter[5] is equally unable to suppress the noise created by the >>>>>>> uneven distribution because no coefficients can model a random noise. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> With that in mind, I implemented a simple optimization algorithm[6] >>>>>>> which was first suggested by Thierry Delamare a few weeks ago. It goes >>>>>>> like this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> - Distribute the desired number of PGs[7] >>>>>>> - Subtract 1% of the weight of the OSD that is the most over used >>>>>>> - Add the subtracted weight to the OSD that is the most under used >>>>>>> - Repeat until the Kullback–Leibler divergence[8] is small enough >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Quoting Adam Kupczyk, this works because: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "...CRUSH is not random proces at all, it behaves in numerically >>>>>>> stable way. Specifically, if we increase weight on one node, we >>>>>>> will get more PGs on this node and less on every other node: >>>>>>> CRUSH([10.1, 10, 10, 5, 5]) -> [146(+3), 152, 156(-2), 70(-1), 76]" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> A nice side effect of this optimization algorithm is that it does not >>>>>>> change the weight of the bucket containing the items being >>>>>>> optimized. It is local to a bucket with no influence on the other >>>>>>> parts of the crushmap (modulo the conditional probability bias). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In all tests the situation improves at least by an order of >>>>>>> magnitude. For instance when there is a 30% difference between two >>>>>>> OSDs, it is down to less than 3% after optimization. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The tests for the optimization method can be run with >>>>>>> >>>>>>> git clone -b wip-fix-2 http://libcrush.org/dachary/python-crush.git >>>>>>> tox -e py27 -- -s -vv -k test_fix tests/test_analyze.py >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If anyone think of a reason why this algorithm won't work in some >>>>>>> cases, please speak up :-) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [1] python-crush http://crush.readthedocs.io/ >>>>>>> [2] crush multipick anomaly http://marc.info/?l=ceph-devel&m=148539995928656&w=2 >>>>>>> [3] Nedler-Mead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelder%E2%80%93Mead_method >>>>>>> [4] L-BFGS-B https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.18.1/reference/optimize.minimize-lbfgsb.html#optimize-minimize-lbfgsb >>>>>>> [5] Least mean squares filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_mean_squares_filter >>>>>>> [6] http://libcrush.org/dachary/python-crush/blob/c6af9bbcbef7123af84ee4d75d63dd1b967213a2/tests/test_analyze.py#L39 >>>>>>> [7] Predicting Ceph PG placement http://dachary.org/?p=4020 >>>>>>> [8] Kullback–Leibler divergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback%E2%80%93Leibler_divergence >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in >>>>>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in >>>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>>> >>> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
