On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 07:09:29PM +0800, Xiongwei Song wrote: > Dear Experts, > > We are facing a performance degradation on the XFS partition. We > was trying to copy a big file(200GB ~ 250GB) from a path to /dev/null, > when performing cp command to 60s ~ 90s, the reading speed was > suddenly down. At the beginning, the reading speed was around > 1080MB/s, 60s later the speed was down to around 350MB/s. This > problem is only found with XFS + Thick LUN. There are so many potential things that this could be caused by. > The test environment: > Storage Model: Dell unity XT 380 Think/Thin LUN How many CPUS, RAM, etc does this have? What disks and what is the configuration of the fully provisioned LUN you are testing on? > Linux Version: 4.12.14 You're running an ancient kernel, so the first thing to do is move to a much more recent kernel (e.g. 6.11) and see if the same behaviour occurs. If it does, then please answer all the other questions I've asked and provide the information from running the tests on the 6.11 kernel... > The steps to run test: > 1) Create a xfs partition with following commands > parted -a opt /dev/sdb mklabel gpt mkpart sdb xfs 0% 100% > mkfs.xfs /dev/sdbx > mount /dev/sdbx /xfs What is the output of mkfs.xfs? Did you drop the page cache between the initial file create and the measured copy? what is the layout of the file you are copying from (ie. xfs_bmap -vvp <file> output)? > It seems the issue only can be triggered with XFS + Thick LUN, > no matter dd or cp to read the test file. We would like to learn > if there is something special with XFS in this test situation? > Is it known? It smells like the difference in bandwidth between the outside edge and the inside edge of a spinning disk, and XFS is switching allocation location of the very big file from the outside to the inside part way through the file (e.g. because the initial AG the file is located in is full)... > Do you have any thoughts or suggestions? Also, do you need vmstat > or iostat logs or blktrace or any other logs to address this issue? iostat and vmstat output in 1s increments would be useful. -Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
