On Fri, Apr 08 2016 at 3:03pm -0400,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08 2016 at 2:58pm -0400,
> Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The DM multipath service-time path-selector has historically tracked the
> > amount of outstanding IO per path and used that to approximate the
> > service-time of each path. In practice this has shown itself to work
> > fairly well but we can do better by measuring the actual service-time
> > during IO completion and using it as the basis for path selection.
> >
> > Measuring the actual service-time is still prone to inaccuracies given
> > that service-times vary with IO size. But to counter any potential for
> > drawing incorrect conclusions about the service-times of a given path
> > the measured service-times are reset periodically.
> >
> > This approach has provided a 10% increase in the selection of a path
> > that was forcibly made to be less loaded than the alternative path.
> >
> > Reported-by: Todd Gill <tgill@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It should be noted that I have not looked at the implications on actual
> throughput or system load. But I wanted to get this RFC out to see what
> others thought about making dm-service-time more intuitive in its
> implementation.
I have notice fio's total and completion latency ('lat' and 'clat') go
up on this simple SAS testbed:
before:
write: io=345920KB, bw=34379KB/s, iops=537, runt= 10062msec
slat (usec): min=10, max=47, avg=22.51, stdev= 3.71
clat (msec): min=1, max=146, avg=59.50, stdev=11.84
lat (msec): min=1, max=146, avg=59.52, stdev=11.84
after:
write: io=347456KB, bw=34545KB/s, iops=539, runt= 10058msec
slat (usec): min=6, max=46, avg=20.50, stdev= 3.68
clat (usec): min=385, max=146556, avg=59219.94, stdev=11580.00
lat (usec): min=403, max=146573, avg=59240.87, stdev=11580.57
Which obviously isn't what we want (might speak to why Junichi decided
to approximate service-time)...
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