Hi, historically I've found many discussions about this topic in last few years, but it seems to me to be still a bit unresolved so I'd like to open the question again.. In all flash deployments, under 12.2.5 luminous and qemu 12.2.0 using lbirbd, I'm getting much worse results regarding IOPS then with KRBD and direct block device access.. I'm testing on the same 100GB RBD volume, notable ceph settings: client rbd cache disabled osd_enable_op_tracker = False osd_op_num_shards = 64 osd_op_num_threads_per_shard = 1 osds are running bluestore, 2 replicas (it's just for testing) when I run FIO using librbd directly, I'm getting ~160k reads/s and ~60k writes/s which is not that bad. however when I run fio on block device under VM (qemu using librbd), I'm getting only 60/40K op/s which is a huge loss.. when I use VM with block access to krbd mapped device, numbers are much better, I'm getting something like 115/40K op/s which is not ideal, but still much better.. tried many optimisations and configuration variants (multiple queues, threads vs native aio etc), but krbd still performs much much better.. My question is whether this is expected, or should both access methods give more similar results? If possible, I'd like to stick to librbd (especially because krbd still lacks layering support, but there are more reasons) interesting is, that when I compare fio direct ceph access, librbd performs better then KRBD, but this doesn't concern me that much.. another question, during the tests, I noticed that enabling exclusive lock feature degrades write iops a lot as well, is this expected? (the performance falls to someting like 50%) I'm doing the tests on small 2 node cluster, VMS are running directly on ceph nodes, all is centos 7 with 4.14 kernel. (I know it's not recommended to run VMs directly on ceph nodes, but for small deployments it's necessary for us) if I could provide more details, I'll be happy to do so BR nik -- ------------------------------------- Ing. Nikola CIPRICH LinuxBox.cz, s.r.o. 28.rijna 168, 709 00 Ostrava tel.: +420 591 166 214 fax: +420 596 621 273 mobil: +420 777 093 799 www.linuxbox.cz mobil servis: +420 737 238 656 email servis: servis@xxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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