Re: Ceph RBD object-map and discard in VM

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I'm not sure why I never received the original list email, so I
apologize for the delay. Is /dev/sda1, from your example, fresh with
no data to actually discard or does it actually have lots of data to
discard?

Thanks,

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Brian Andrus <bandrus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've created a downstream bug for this same issue.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349116
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:23 AM, <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> We are currently testing Ceph Jewel with object-map feature enabled:
>>
>> rbd image 'disk-22920':
>>         size 102400 MB in 25600 objects
>>         order 22 (4096 kB objects)
>>         block_name_prefix: rbd_data.7cfa2238e1f29
>>         format: 2
>>         features: layering, exclusive-lock, object-map, fast-diff,
>> deep-flatten
>>         flags:
>>
>> We use this RBD as disk for a kvm virtual machine with virtio-scsi and
>> discard=unmap. We noticed the following paremeters in /sys/block:
>>
>> # cat /sys/block/sda/queue/discard_*
>> 4096
>> 1073741824
>> 0 <- discard_zeroes_data
>>
>> While trying to do a mkfs.ext4 on the disk in VM we noticed a low
>> performance with using discard.
>>
>> mkfs.ext4 -E nodiscard /dev/sda1 - tooks 5 seconds to complete
>> mkfs.ext4 -E discard /dev/sda1 - tooks around 3 monutes
>>
>> When disabling the object-map the mkfs with discard tooks just 5 seconds.
>>
>> Do you have any idea what might cause this issue?
>>
>> Kernel: 4.2.0-35-generic #40~14.04.1-Ubuntu
>> Ceph: 10.2.0
>> Libvirt: 1.3.1
>> QEMU: 2.5.0
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jonas
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