Slow IOPS on RBD compared to journal and backing devices

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On 15/05/14 09:11, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> Am 15.05.2014 00:26, schrieb Josef Johansson:
>> Hi,
>>
>> So, apparently tmpfs does not support non-root xattr due to a possible
>> DoS-vector. There's configuration set for enabling it as far as I can see.
>>
>> CONFIG_TMPFS=y
>> CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
>> CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y
>>
>> Anyone know a way around it? Saw that there's a patch for enabling it,
>> but recompiling my kernel is out of reach right now ;)
> I would create an empty file in tmpfs and then format that file as a
> block device.
How do you mean exactly? Creating with dd and mounting with losetup?

Cheers,
Josef
>> Created the osd with following:
>>
>> root at osd1:/# dd seek=6G if=/dev/zero of=/dev/shm/test-osd/img bs=1 count=1
>> root at osd1:/# losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/shm/test-osd/img
>> root at osd1:/# mkfs.xfs /dev/loop0
>> root at osd1:/# ceph osd create
>> 50
>> root at osd1:/# mkdir /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-50
>> root at osd1:/# mount -t xfs /dev/loop0 /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-50
>> root at osd1:/# ceph-osd --debug_ms 50 -i 50 --mkfs --mkkey
>> --osd-journal=/dev/sdc7 --mkjournal
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:29.796822 7f40063bb780 -1 journal FileJournal::_open:
>> aio not supported without directio; disabling aio
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:29.798583 7f40063bb780 -1 journal check: ondisk fsid
>> bc14ff30-e016-4e0d-9672-96262ee5f07e doesn't match expected
>> b3f5b98b-e024-4153-875d-5c758a6060eb, invalid (someone else's?) journal
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:29.802155 7f40063bb780 -1 journal FileJournal::_open:
>> aio not supported without directio; disabling aio
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:29.807237 7f40063bb780 -1
>> filestore(/var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-50) could not find
>> 23c2fcde/osd_superblock/0//-1 in index: (2) No such file or directory
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:29.809083 7f40063bb780 -1 created object store
>> /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-50 journal /dev/sdc7 for osd.50 fsid
>> c51a2683-55dc-4634-9d9d-f0fec9a6f389
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:29.809121 7f40063bb780 -1 auth: error reading file:
>> /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-50/keyring: can't open
>> /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-50/keyring: (2) No such file or directory
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:29.809179 7f40063bb780 -1 created new key in keyring
>> /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-50/keyring
>> root at osd1:/# ceph-osd --debug_ms 50 -i 50 --mkfs --mkkey
>> --osd-journal=/dev/sdc7 --mkjournal
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:51.122716 7ff813ba4780 -1 journal FileJournal::_open:
>> aio not supported without directio; disabling aio
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:51.126275 7ff813ba4780 -1 journal FileJournal::_open:
>> aio not supported without directio; disabling aio
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:51.129532 7ff813ba4780 -1 provided osd id 50 !=
>> superblock's -1
>> 2014-05-15 00:20:51.129845 7ff813ba4780 -1  ** ERROR: error creating
>> empty object store in /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-50: (22) Invalid argument
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Josef
>>
>> Christian Balzer skrev 2014-05-14 14:33:
>>> 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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