Hi all,
At Tao Bao we meet a problem in our product system which causes a huge latency
because of stable page write. This problem is easy to reproduce in a testing
environment, and I can reproduce it in my desktop with a SATA disk. Here is the
fio config file that is used to reproduce this problem.
config file
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[global]
iodepth=1
directory=/mnt/sda3
direct=0
group_reporting
thread
fallocate=0
runtime=120
[log-append]
ioengine=sync
rw=write
bs=1k
size=10g
filesize=10g
rate=5m
numjobs=1
I run this test case in ext4 and xfs, and both of them are affected by stable
page write. The result shows as below. Please notice the result of latency.
ext4 w/ stable page write
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log-append: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=3455: Tue Dec 11 14:41:27 2012
write: io=614401KB, bw=5119.1KB/s, iops=5119 , runt=120001msec
clat (usec): min=3 , max=225702 , avg= 7.32, stdev=411.95
lat (usec): min=3 , max=225702 , avg= 7.50, stdev=411.95
clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 3], 5.00th=[ 3], 10.00th=[ 3], 20.00th=[ 4],
| 30.00th=[ 4], 40.00th=[ 4], 50.00th=[ 4], 60.00th=[ 5],
| 70.00th=[ 6], 80.00th=[ 12], 90.00th=[ 13], 95.00th=[ 14],
| 99.00th=[ 15], 99.50th=[ 16], 99.90th=[ 18], 99.95th=[ 19],
| 99.99th=[ 25]
bw (KB/s) : min= 5108, max= 5134, per=100.00%, avg=5120.92, stdev= 1.58
lat (usec) : 4=15.93%, 10=59.05%, 20=24.98%, 50=0.03%, 100=0.01%
lat (usec) : 250=0.01%
lat (msec) : 20=0.01%, 250=0.01%
cpu : usr=0.18%, sys=4.31%, ctx=118850, majf=18446744073709551605,
minf=18446744073709538970
IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
issued : total=r=0/w=614401/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
WRITE: io=614401KB, aggrb=5119KB/s, minb=5119KB/s, maxb=5119KB/s,
mint=120001msec, maxt=120001msec
Disk stats (read/write):
sda: ios=79/1287, merge=5/151907, ticks=702/147202, in_queue=147861, util=6.25%
ext4 w/o stable page write
--------------------------
log-append: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=3062: Tue Dec 11 14:52:32 2012
write: io=614400KB, bw=5119.1KB/s, iops=5119 , runt=120001msec
clat (usec): min=3 , max=14565 , avg= 6.15, stdev=25.35
lat (usec): min=3 , max=14566 , avg= 6.29, stdev=25.35
clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 3], 5.00th=[ 3], 10.00th=[ 3], 20.00th=[ 4],
| 30.00th=[ 4], 40.00th=[ 4], 50.00th=[ 4], 60.00th=[ 4],
| 70.00th=[ 5], 80.00th=[ 12], 90.00th=[ 12], 95.00th=[ 13],
| 99.00th=[ 15], 99.50th=[ 15], 99.90th=[ 17], 99.95th=[ 18],
| 99.99th=[ 64]
bw (KB/s) : min= 5108, max= 5140, per=100.00%, avg=5122.26, stdev= 4.54
lat (usec) : 4=17.33%, 10=57.65%, 20=24.98%, 50=0.02%, 100=0.01%
lat (usec) : 250=0.01%
lat (msec) : 2=0.01%, 20=0.01%
cpu : usr=4.12%, sys=0.00%, ctx=58904, majf=18446744073709551605,
minf=18446744073709538969
IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
issued : total=r=0/w=614400/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
WRITE: io=614400KB, aggrb=5119KB/s, minb=5119KB/s, maxb=5119KB/s,
mint=120001msec, maxt=120001msec
Disk stats (read/write):
sda: ios=34/1254, merge=4/152032, ticks=157/144066, in_queue=147725, util=5.82%
xfs w/ stable page write
------------------------
log-append: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=2848: Tue Dec 11 15:39:25 2012
write: io=614401KB, bw=5119.1KB/s, iops=5119 , runt=120002msec
clat (usec): min=1 , max=635643 , avg= 5.02, stdev=1141.37
lat (usec): min=1 , max=635643 , avg= 5.17, stdev=1141.37
clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 1], 5.00th=[ 1], 10.00th=[ 1], 20.00th=[ 1],
| 30.00th=[ 2], 40.00th=[ 2], 50.00th=[ 2], 60.00th=[ 2],
| 70.00th=[ 4], 80.00th=[ 5], 90.00th=[ 6], 95.00th=[ 6],
| 99.00th=[ 9], 99.50th=[ 10], 99.90th=[ 11], 99.95th=[ 12],
| 99.99th=[ 13]
bw (KB/s) : min= 1388, max=11632, per=100.00%, avg=5147.03, stdev=675.82
lat (usec) : 2=21.76%, 4=46.03%, 10=31.65%, 20=0.56%, 50=0.01%
lat (msec) : 20=0.01%, 750=0.01%
cpu : usr=1.09%, sys=1.18%, ctx=58250, majf=18446744073709551605,
minf=18446744073709538970
IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
issued : total=r=0/w=614401/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
WRITE: io=614401KB, aggrb=5119KB/s, minb=5119KB/s, maxb=5119KB/s,
mint=120002msec, maxt=120002msec
Disk stats (read/write):
sda: ios=15/1101, merge=0/28, ticks=150/554585, in_queue=554731, util=4.18%
xfs w/o stable page write
-------------------------
log-append: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=3678: Tue Dec 11 15:01:10 2012
write: io=614401KB, bw=5119.1KB/s, iops=5119 , runt=120001msec
clat (usec): min=1 , max=20866 , avg= 3.50, stdev=26.72
lat (usec): min=1 , max=20866 , avg= 3.60, stdev=26.72
clat percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 1], 5.00th=[ 1], 10.00th=[ 1], 20.00th=[ 2],
| 30.00th=[ 2], 40.00th=[ 2], 50.00th=[ 2], 60.00th=[ 2],
| 70.00th=[ 5], 80.00th=[ 6], 90.00th=[ 6], 95.00th=[ 8],
| 99.00th=[ 10], 99.50th=[ 10], 99.90th=[ 12], 99.95th=[ 12],
| 99.99th=[ 14]
bw (KB/s) : min= 5110, max= 5132, per=100.00%, avg=5120.84, stdev= 2.25
lat (usec) : 2=15.33%, 4=44.93%, 10=38.33%, 20=1.41%, 50=0.01%
lat (usec) : 500=0.01%
lat (msec) : 50=0.01%
cpu : usr=2.83%, sys=0.00%, ctx=119423, majf=18446744073709551605,
minf=18446744073709538968
IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
issued : total=r=0/w=614401/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
WRITE: io=614401KB, aggrb=5119KB/s, minb=5119KB/s, maxb=5119KB/s,
mint=120001msec, maxt=120001msec
Disk stats (read/write):
sda: ios=106/1055, merge=3/35, ticks=1042/522739, in_queue=523780, util=4.56%
We can see that the max of latency is very high with stable page write in ext4
and xfs, and it reduces to a lower value after stable page write is reverted. I
summarize as below.
ext4 xfs (usec, lower is better)
w/ 225702 635643
w/o 14565 20866
Hence, I wonder whether or not we could revert stable page write temporarily.
After it is improved, we could add it back again.
Thanks,
- Zheng
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