Slow IOPS on RBD compared to journal and backingdevices

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Someone could get a performance throughput on RBD of 600MB/s or more 
on (rw) with a block size of 32768k?



German Anders
Field Storage Support Engineer
Despegar.com - IT Team










> --- Original message ---
> Asunto: Re: Slow IOPS on RBD compared to journal and 
> backingdevices
> De: Christian Balzer <chibi at gol.com>
> Para: Josef Johansson <josef at oderland.se>
> Cc: <ceph-users at lists.ceph.com>
> Fecha: Wednesday, 14/05/2014 09:33
>
>
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, 14 May 2014 11:29:47 +0200 Josef Johansson wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> I missed this thread, haven't been reading the list that well the last
>> weeks.
>>
>> You already know my setup, since we discussed it in an earlier thread. 
>> I
>> don't have a fast backing store, but I see the slow IOPS when doing
>> randwrite inside the VM, with rbd cache. Still running dumpling here
>> though.
>>
> Nods, I do recall that thread.
>
>>
>> A thought struck me that I could test with a pool that consists of 
>> OSDs
>> that have tempfs-based disks, think I have a bit more latency than 
>> your
>> IPoIB but I've pushed 100k IOPS with the same network devices before.
>> This would verify if the problem is with the journal disks. I'll also
>> try to run the journal devices in tempfs as well, as it would test
>> purely Ceph itself.
>>
> That would be interesting indeed.
> Given what I've seen (with the journal at 20% utilization and the 
> actual
> filestore ataround 5%) I'd expect Ceph to be the culprit.
>
>>
>> I'll get back to you with the results, hopefully I'll manage to get 
>> them
>> done during this night.
>>
> Looking forward to that. ^^
>
>
> Christian
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Josef
>>
>> On 13/05/14 11:03, Christian Balzer wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm clearly talking to myself, but whatever.
>>>
>>> For Greg, I've played with all the pertinent journal and filestore
>>> options and TCP nodelay, no changes at all.
>>>
>>> Is there anybody on this ML who's running a Ceph cluster with a fast
>>> network and FAST filestore, so like me with a big HW cache in front of
>>> a RAID/JBODs or using SSDs for final storage?
>>>
>>> If so, what results do you get out of the fio statement below per OSD?
>>> In my case with 4 OSDs and 3200 IOPS that's about 800 IOPS per OSD,
>>> which is of course vastly faster than the normal indvidual HDDs could
>>> do.
>>>
>>> So I'm wondering if I'm hitting some inherent limitation of how fast a
>>> single OSD (as in the software) can handle IOPS, given that everything
>>> else has been ruled out from where I stand.
>>>
>>> This would also explain why none of the option changes or the use of
>>> RBD caching has any measurable effect in the test case below.
>>> As in, a slow OSD aka single HDD with journal on the same disk would
>>> clearly benefit from even the small 32MB standard RBD cache, while in
>>> my test case the only time the caching becomes noticeable is if I
>>> increase the cache size to something larger than the test data size.
>>> ^o^
>>>
>>> On the other hand if people here regularly get thousands or tens of
>>> thousands IOPS per OSD with the appropriate HW I'm stumped.
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>
>>> On Fri, 9 May 2014 11:01:26 +0900 Christian Balzer wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 7 May 2014 22:13:53 -0700 Gregory Farnum wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, I didn't notice that. I bet you aren't getting the expected
>>>>> throughput on the RAID array with OSD access patterns, and that's
>>>>> applying back pressure on the journal.
>>>>>
>>>> In the a "picture" being worth a thousand words tradition, I give you
>>>> this iostat -x output taken during a fio run:
>>>>
>>>> avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
>>>>                      50.82    0.00   19.43    0.17    0.00   29.58
>>>>
>>>> Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
>>>> avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
>>>> sda               0.00    51.50    0.00 1633.50     0.00  7460.00
>>>> 9.13     0.18    0.11    0.00    0.11   0.01   1.40 sdb
>>>> 0.00     0.00    0.00 1240.50     0.00  5244.00     8.45     0.30
>>>> 0.25    0.00    0.25   0.02   2.00 sdc               0.00     5.00
>>>> 0.00 2468.50     0.00 13419.00    10.87     0.24    0.10    0.00
>>>> 0.10   0.09  22.00 sdd               0.00     6.50    0.00 1913.00
>>>> 0.00 10313.00    10.78     0.20    0.10    0.00    0.10   0.09  16.60
>>>>
>>>> The %user CPU utilization is pretty much entirely the 2 OSD processes,
>>>> note the nearly complete absence of iowait.
>>>>
>>>> sda and sdb are the OSDs RAIDs, sdc and sdd are the journal SSDs.
>>>> Look at these numbers, the lack of queues, the low wait and service
>>>> times (this is in ms) plus overall utilization.
>>>>
>>>> The only conclusion I can draw from these numbers and the network
>>>> results below is that the latency happens within the OSD processes.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Christian
>>>>>
>>>>> When I suggested other tests, I meant with and without Ceph. One
>>>>> particular one is OSD bench. That should be interesting to try at a
>>>>> variety of block sizes. You could also try runnin RADOS bench and
>>>>> smalliobench at a few different sizes.
>>>>> -Greg
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, May 7, 2014, Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier at odiso.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Christian,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have tried without raid6, to have more osd ?
>>>>>> (how many disks do you have begin the raid6 ?)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aslo, I known that direct ios can be quite slow with ceph,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> maybe can you try without --direct=1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and also enable rbd_cache
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ceph.conf
>>>>>> [client]
>>>>>> rbd cache = true
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Mail original -----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> De: "Christian Balzer" <chibi at gol.com <javascript:;>>
>>>>>> ?: "Gregory Farnum" <greg at inktank.com <javascript:;>>,
>>>>>> ceph-users at lists.ceph.com <javascript:;>
>>>>>> Envoy?: Jeudi 8 Mai 2014 04:49:16
>>>>>> Objet: Re: Slow IOPS on RBD compared to journal and
>>>>>> backing devices
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 7 May 2014 18:37:48 -0700 Gregory Farnum wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Christian Balzer
>>>>>>> <chibi at gol.com<javascript:;>>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ceph 0.72 on Debian Jessie, 2 storage nodes with 2 OSDs each. The
>>>>>>>> journals are on (separate) DC 3700s, the actual OSDs are RAID6
>>>>>>>> behind an Areca 1882 with 4GB of cache.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Running this fio:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> fio --size=400m --ioengine=libaio --invalidate=1 --direct=1
>>>>>>>> --numjobs=1 --rw=randwrite --name=fiojob --blocksize=4k
>>>>>>>> --iodepth=128
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> results in:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 30k IOPS on the journal SSD (as expected)
>>>>>>>> 110k IOPS on the OSD (it fits neatly into the cache, no surprise
>>>>>>>> there) 3200 IOPS from a VM using userspace RBD
>>>>>>>> 2900 IOPS from a host kernelspace mounted RBD
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When running the fio from the VM RBD the utilization of the
>>>>>>>> journals is about 20% (2400 IOPS) and the OSDs are bored at 2%
>>>>>>>> (1500 IOPS after some obvious merging).
>>>>>>>> The OSD processes are quite busy, reading well over 200% on atop,
>>>>>>>> but the system is not CPU or otherwise resource starved at that
>>>>>>>> moment.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Running multiple instances of this test from several VMs on
>>>>>>>> different hosts changes nothing, as in the aggregated IOPS for
>>>>>>>> the whole cluster will still be around 3200 IOPS.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now clearly RBD has to deal with latency here, but the network is
>>>>>>>> IPoIB with the associated low latency and the journal SSDs are
>>>>>>>> the (consistently) fasted ones around.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I guess what I am wondering about is if this is normal and to be
>>>>>>>> expected or if not where all that potential performance got lost.
>>>>>>> Hmm, with 128 IOs at a time (I believe I'm reading that correctly?)
>>>>>> Yes, but going down to 32 doesn't change things one iota.
>>>>>> Also note the multiple instances I mention up there, so that would
>>>>>> be 256 IOs at a time, coming from different hosts over different
>>>>>> links and nothing changes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> that's about 40ms of latency per op (for userspace RBD), which
>>>>>>> seems awfully long. You should check what your client-side objecter
>>>>>>> settings are; it might be limiting you to fewer outstanding ops
>>>>>>> than that.
>>>>>> Googling for client-side objecter gives a few hits on ceph devel and
>>>>>> bugs and nothing at all as far as configuration options are
>>>>>> concerned. Care to enlighten me where one can find those?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also note the kernelspace (3.13 if it matters) speed, which is very
>>>>>> much in the same (junior league) ballpark.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If
>>>>>>> it's available to you, testing with Firefly or even master would be
>>>>>>> interesting ? there's some performance work that should reduce
>>>>>>> latencies.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not an option, this is going into production next week.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But a well-tuned (or even default-tuned, I thought) Ceph cluster
>>>>>>> certainly doesn't require 40ms/op, so you should probably run a
>>>>>>> wider array of experiments to try and figure out where it's coming
>>>>>>> from.
>>>>>> I think we can rule out the network, NPtcp gives me:
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> 56: 4096 bytes 1546 times --> 979.22 Mbps in 31.91 usec
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For comparison at about 512KB it reaches maximum throughput and
>>>>>> still isn't that laggy:
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> 98: 524288 bytes 121 times --> 9700.57 Mbps in 412.35 usec
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So with the network performing as well as my lengthy experience with
>>>>>> IPoIB led me to believe, what else is there to look at?
>>>>>> The storage nodes perform just as expected, indicated by the local
>>>>>> fio tests.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That pretty much leaves only Ceph/RBD to look at and I'm not really
>>>>>> sure what experiments I should run on that. ^o^
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Christian
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Greg
>>>>>>> Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer
>>>>>> chibi at gol.com <javascript:;> Global OnLine Japan/Fusion
>>>>>> Communications http://www.gol.com/
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