Re: very slow file deletion on an SSD

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On 05/26/2012 07:18 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 06:37:05AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
Hi folks:

   Just ran into this (see posted output at bottom).  3.2.14 kernel,
MD RAID 5, xfs file system.  Not sure (precisely) where the problem
is, hence posting to both lists.

  [root@siFlash ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md22 : active raid5 sdl[0] sds[7] sdx[6] sdu[5] sdk[4] sdz[3] sdw[2] sdr[1]
       1641009216 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2
[8/8] [UUUUUUUU]

md20 : active raid5 sdh[0] sdf[7] sdm[6] sdd[5] sdc[4] sde[3] sdi[2] sdg[1]
       1641009216 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2
[8/8] [UUUUUUUU]

md21 : active raid5 sdy[0] sdq[7] sdp[6] sdo[5] sdn[4] sdj[3] sdv[2] sdt[1]
       1641009216 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2
[8/8] [UUUUUUUU]

md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
       93775800 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]
       bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk


md2* are SSD RAID5 arrays we are experimenting with.  Xfs file
systems atop them:

[root@siFlash ~]# mount | grep md2
/dev/md20 on /data/1 type xfs (rw)
/dev/md21 on /data/2 type xfs (rw)
/dev/md22 on /data/3 type xfs (rw)

vanilla mount options (following Dave Chinner's long standing advice)

meta-data=/dev/md20              isize=2048   agcount=32,
agsize=12820392 blks
          =                       sectsz=512   attr=2
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=410252304, imaxpct=5
          =                       sunit=8      swidth=56 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=65536  ascii-ci=0
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=30720, version=2
          =                       sectsz=512   sunit=8 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0

But you haven't followed my advice when it comes to using default
mkfs options, have you? You're running 2k inodes and 64k directory
block size, which is not exactly a common config

We were experimenting. Easy to set it back and demonstrate the problem again.


The question is, why do you have these options configured, and are
they responsible for things being slow?


We saw it before we experimented with some mkfs options. Will rebuild FS and demo it again.


All this said, deletes from this unit are taking 1-2 seconds per file ...

Sounds like you might be hitting the synchronous xattr removal
problem that was recently fixed (as has been mentioned already), but
even so 2 IOs don't take 1-2s to do, unless the MD RAID5 barrier
implementation is really that bad. If you mount -o nobarrier, what
happens?

[root@siFlash test]# ls -alF  | wc -l
59
[root@siFlash test]# /usr/bin/time rm -f *
^C0.00user 8.46system 0:09.55elapsed 88%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2384maxresident)k
25352inputs+0outputs (0major+179minor)pagefaults 0swaps
[root@siFlash test]# ls -alF  | wc -l
48

Nope, still an issue:

1338074901.531554 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 <0.000021> 1338074901.531701 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "1.r.12.0", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1073741824, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 <0.000022>
1338074901.531840 unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "1.r.12.0", 0) = 0 <2.586999>
1338074904.119032 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "1.r.13.0", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1073741824, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 <0.000033>

2.6 seconds for an unlink.

Rebuilding absolutely vanilla file system now, and will rerun checks.


CHeers,

Dave.

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