On 23/02/2024 4:51 pm, Matthew Grooms wrote:
On 2/18/24 09:21, Matthew Grooms wrote:
On 2/17/24 15:53, Matthew Grooms wrote:
Unfortunately same story with 13.2. I'm going to try and downgrade
to 12.4 and see if it gets any better.
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Begin @ Sat Feb 17 11:00:01 CST 2024
Version 2.00 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential
Input- --Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr-
--Block-- --Seeks--
Name:Size etc /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec
%CP /sec %CP
localhost.lo 63640M 690k 99 1.5g 97 727m 78 950k 99 1.3g 68
+++++ +++
Latency 11759us 29114us 8098us 8649us 23413us
4540us
Version 2.00 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random
Create--------
localhost.localdoma -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create--
--Read--- -Delete--
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec
%CP /sec %CP
16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++
+++ +++++ +++
Latency 7791us 131us 1671us 464us 15us
1811us
End @ Sat Feb 17 11:03:13 CST 2024
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Begin @ Sat Feb 17 11:10:01 CST 2024
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-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr-
--Block-- --Seeks--
Name:Size etc /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec
%CP /sec %CP
localhost.lo 63640M 667k 99 449m 99 313m 94 940k 99 398m 99
16204 563
Latency 12147us 1079us 24470us 8795us 17853us
4384us
Version 2.00 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random
Create--------
localhost.localdoma -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create--
--Read--- -Delete--
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec
%CP /sec %CP
16 0 93 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 0 96 +++++
+++ +++++ +++
Latency 118us 159us 269us 164us 54us
844us
End @ Sat Feb 17 11:18:43 CST 2024
I wasn't able to get a working 12.4 system in place due to lack of
packages. However, I did fire up a FreeBSD 14 VM and let it run
overnight on the same SSD array. It consistently ran at a much higher
speed for 50+ runs @ 10m intervals ...
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Begin @ Sun Feb 18 15:00:00 UTC 2024
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--Random-
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Name:Size etc /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
freebsd.shrew.l 64G 628k 99 1.6g 98 831m 60 1278k 99 1.1g 42
+++++ +++
Latency 13447us 68490us 207ms 7187us 195ms
17665us
Version 1.98 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random
Create--------
freebsd.shrew.lab -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
-Delete--
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
+++++ +++
Latency 18225us 18us 28us 18812us 18us 25us
End @ Sun Feb 18 15:03:11 UTC 2024
I used identical options to run both that VM and the Linux VM I've
been testing. The backing store for each VM has a 1TB partition and
the guest interfaces are NVME. Now I'm really scratching my head.
Chuck, were you testing disk performance in Linux VMs or only FreeBSD?
Anyone have ideas on why Linux disk performance would drop off a
cliff over time?
I took a detour trying out Xen but apparently that has it's own set of
performance issues related to the FreeBSD port missing newer features.
I did install KVM on the same hardware for comparison. I then tested a
guest provisioned identically to the bhyve VM with a virtio blk device
which ran for 2.5 hours with consistently impressive output ...
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Begin @ Thu Feb 22 20:55:01 CST 2024
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Name:Size etc /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
linux2.shrew.pr 31G 2191k 99 1.4g 55 1.1g 59 3484k 99 2.5g 83
7817 127
Latency 4480us 2528us 17656us 2650us 102us 3568us
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linux2.shrew.prv -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
-Delete--
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
+++++ +++
Latency 9722us 90us 123us 61us 20us 998us
End @ Thu Feb 22 20:56:11 CST 2024
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For comparison, here is the output from a recent run of a Linux VM on
bhyve using the virtio blk device. Note the performance drop off
between the first and second run ...
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Name:Size etc /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
linux.shrew. 63640M 694k 99 1.5g 97 772m 70 985k 99 1.4g 75
2302 115
Latency 11557us 28959us 27540us 8308us 25227us
8605us
Version 2.00 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random
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linux.shrew.lab -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
-Delete--
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
+++++ +++
Latency 4058us 125us 1651us 96us 23us 627us
End @ Thu Feb 22 22:03:07 CST 2024
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Begin @ Thu Feb 22 22:10:02 CST 2024
Version 2.00 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input-
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-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--
Name:Size etc /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
linux.shrew. 63640M 676k 99 406m 99 300m 92 952k 99 373m 99
2145 158
Latency 11871us 154us 20673us 9926us 22765us
14034us
Version 2.00 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random
Create--------
linux.shrew.lab -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
-Delete--
files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
16 0 95 +++++ +++ 0 79 0 96 +++++
+++ 0 76
Latency 4426us 125us 1687us 576us 72us 654us
End @ Thu Feb 22 22:19:19 CST 2024
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It certainly feels like a deficiency in bhyve that isn't tied to any
particular storage device model. I did notice a pattern in top that I
thought was peculiar. When watching the bhyve threads while the
benchmark test is running, I see several CPU threads running at the
top of the list followed by what I assume to be block device threads.
When the disk performance is high, it looks like this ...
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU
COMMAND
5628 root 68 0 32G 31G CPU24 24 0:53 88.90%
bhyve{vcpu 5}
5628 root 36 0 32G 31G vmidle 7 0:18 17.86%
bhyve{vcpu 15}
5628 root 34 0 32G 31G vmidle 26 1:06 16.76%
bhyve{vcpu 8}
5628 root 21 0 32G 31G uwait 37 0:05 2.69%
bhyve{blk-4:0-2}
5628 root 21 0 32G 31G uwait 60 0:04 2.64%
bhyve{blk-4:0-0}
5628 root 21 0 32G 31G uwait 52 0:06 2.62%
bhyve{blk-4:0-1}
5628 root 21 0 32G 31G uwait 14 0:05 2.58%
bhyve{blk-4:0-6}
5628 root 21 0 32G 31G RUN 50 0:05 2.51%
bhyve{blk-4:0-4}
5628 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 38 0:05 2.51%
bhyve{blk-4:0-5}
5628 root 21 0 32G 31G uwait 56 0:05 2.46%
bhyve{blk-4:0-3}
5628 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 22 0:06 2.45%
bhyve{blk-4:0-7}
When disk performance drops off, I see that one of the bhyve CPU
threads shows it's PRI value climb quickly until it hits around 135.
At that point, the one CPU thread basically is pegged at 100% WCPU
until the test is done. Other bhyve threads are much less busy ...
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU
COMMAND
5518 root 135 0 32G 31G CPU59 59 6:49 99.97%
bhyve{vcpu 2}
5518 root 26 0 32G 31G vmidle 36 5:40 8.80%
bhyve{vcpu 15}
5518 root 23 0 32G 31G vmidle 18 0:41 4.74%
bhyve{vcpu 13}
5518 root 20 0 32G 31G vmidle 37 0:09 0.85%
bhyve{vcpu 10}
5518 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 6 0:20 0.72%
bhyve{blk-4:0-2}
5518 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 8 0:20 0.71%
bhyve{blk-4:0-7}
5518 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 43 0:22 0.70%
bhyve{blk-4:0-0}
5518 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 12 0:20 0.70%
bhyve{blk-4:0-5}
5518 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 43 0:19 0.68%
bhyve{blk-4:0-3}
5518 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 36 0:21 0.68%
bhyve{blk-4:0-6}
5518 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 46 0:20 0.68%
bhyve{blk-4:0-4}
5518 root 20 0 32G 31G uwait 32 0:20 0.64%
bhyve{blk-4:0-1}
This pattern in top repeats each time the benchmark is run unless the
guest is rebooted.
Does bhyve call pthread_attr_setschedparam at run time under certain
circumstances or is that the scheduler doing it's thing? Anyone have
any ideas? I'm pretty much out of them :/
Thanks in advance,
-Matthew
Hi Matthew,
Have you tried using UFS2 or even memory backed host storage for testing
yet? This will rule out if it is a ZFS or bhyve issue.
Cheers,
Jason.
