On Sep 26, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Mark Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/25/2014 09:47 PM, Guang Yang wrote: >> Hi Sage, >> We are very interested to join (and contribute effort) as well. Following >> are a list of issues we have particular interests: >> 1> Large number of small files bring performance degradation most due to >> file system lookup (even worst with EC). > > Have you tried decreasing vfs_cache_pressure to retain dentries and inodes in > cache? I've had good luck improve performance for medium sized IO workloads > doing this. Yeah we changed the setting from its default value 100 to 20 and it turned out improvement for dentry/inode cache (we also tried setting it to 1 but got OOM in some traffic pattern). Even with the setting change, given the object size is several hundred KB, we still observed lookup miss which increase latency, this became worst when we turned to EC as: 1) More files on each system. 2) The long tail determine the latency. > >> 2> Messenger uses too many threads which bring burden for high density >> hardware (which I believe Haomai already has great progress). > > Yes, The biggest thing on my personal wish list has been to move to a hybrid > threading/event processing model. > >> >> Thanks, >> Guang >> >> On Sep 26, 2014, at 2:27 AM, Sage Weil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> A number of people have approached me about how to get more involved with >>> the current work on improving performance and how to better coordinate >>> with other interested parties. A few meetings have taken place offline >>> with good results but only a few interested parties were involved. >>> >>> Ideally, we'd like to move as much of this dicussion into the public >>> forums: [email protected] and #ceph-devel. That isn't always >>> sufficient, however. I'd like to also set up a regular weekly meeting >>> using google hangouts or bluejeans so that all interested parties can >>> share progress. There are a lot of things we can do during the Hammer >>> cycle to improve things but it will require some coordination of effort. >>> >>> Among other things, we can discuss: >>> >>> - observed performance limitations >>> - high level strategies for addressing them >>> - proposed patch sets and their performance impact >>> - anything else that will move us forward >>> >>> One challenge is timezones: there are developers in the US, China, Europe, >>> and Israel who may want to join. As a starting point, how about next >>> Wednesday, 15:00 UTC? If I didn't do my tz math wrong, that's >>> >>> 8:00 (PDT, California) >>> 15:00 (UTC) >>> 18:00 (IDT, Israel) >>> 23:00 (CST, China) >>> >>> That is surely not the ideal time for everyone but it can hopefully be a >>> starting point. >>> >>> I've also created an etherpad for collecting discussion/agenda items at >>> >>> http://pad.ceph.com/p/performance_weekly >>> >>> Is there interest here? Please let everyone know if you are actively >>> working in this area and/or would like to join, and update the pad above >>> with the topics you would like to discuss. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> sage >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in >>> the body of a message to [email protected] >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
