They definitely are Warren!

Thanks for bringing this here :).

On 05 Sep 2014, at 23:02, Wang, Warren <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 to what Cedric said.
> 
> Anything more than a few minutes of heavy sustained writes tended to get our 
> solid state devices into a state where garbage collection could not keep up. 
> Originally we used small SSDs and did not overprovision the journals by much. 
> Manufacturers publish their SSD stats, and then in very small font, state 
> that the attained IOPS are with empty drives, and the tests are only run for 
> very short amounts of time.  Even if the drives are new, it's a good idea to 
> perform an hdparm secure erase on them (so that the SSD knows that the blocks 
> are truly unused), and then overprovision them. You'll know if you have a 
> problem by watching for utilization and wait data on the journals.
> 
> One of the other interesting performance issues is that the Intel 10Gbe NICs 
> + default kernel that we typically use max out around 1million packets/sec. 
> It's worth tracking this metric to if you are close. 
> 
> I know these aren't necessarily relevant to the test parameters you gave 
> below, but they're worth keeping in mind.
> 
> -- 
> Warren Wang
> Comcast Cloud (OpenStack)
> 
> 
> From: Cedric Lemarchand <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 5:14 PM
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ceph-users] [Single OSD performance on SSD] Can't go over 3, 2K 
> IOPS
> 
> 
> Le 03/09/2014 22:11, Sebastien Han a écrit :
>> Hi Warren,
>> 
>> What do mean exactly by secure erase? At the firmware level with constructor 
>> softwares?
>> SSDs were pretty new so I don’t we hit that sort of things. I believe that 
>> only aged SSDs have this behaviour but I might be wrong.
>> 
> Sorry I forgot to reply to the real question ;-)
> So yes it only plays after some times, for your case, if the SSD still 
> delivers write IOPS specified by the manufacturer, it will doesn't help in 
> any ways.
> 
> But it seems this practice is nowadays increasingly used.
> 
> Cheers
>> On 02 Sep 2014, at 18:23, Wang, Warren <[email protected]>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi Sebastien,
>>> 
>>> Something I didn't see in the thread so far, did you secure erase the SSDs 
>>> before they got used? I assume these were probably repurposed for this 
>>> test. We have seen some pretty significant garbage collection issue on 
>>> various SSD and other forms of solid state storage to the point where we 
>>> are overprovisioning pretty much every solid state device now. By as much 
>>> as 50% to handle sustained write operations. Especially important for the 
>>> journals, as we've found.
>>> 
>>> Maybe not an issue on the short fio run below, but certainly evident on 
>>> longer runs or lots of historical data on the drives. The max transaction 
>>> time looks pretty good for your test. Something to consider though.
>>> 
>>> Warren
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ceph-users [
>>> mailto:[email protected]
>>> ] On Behalf Of Sebastien Han
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:12 PM
>>> To: ceph-users
>>> Cc: Mark Nelson
>>> Subject: [ceph-users] [Single OSD performance on SSD] Can't go over 3, 2K 
>>> IOPS
>>> 
>>> Hey all,
>>> 
>>> It has been a while since the last thread performance related on the ML :p 
>>> I've been running some experiment to see how much I can get from an SSD on 
>>> a Ceph cluster.
>>> To achieve that I did something pretty simple:
>>> 
>>> * Debian wheezy 7.6
>>> * kernel from debian 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64
>>> * 1 cluster, 3 mons (i'd like to keep this realistic since in a real 
>>> deployment i'll use 3)
>>> * 1 OSD backed by an SSD (journal and osd data on the same device)
>>> * 1 replica count of 1
>>> * partitions are perfectly aligned
>>> * io scheduler is set to noon but deadline was showing the same results
>>> * no updatedb running
>>> 
>>> About the box:
>>> 
>>> * 32GB of RAM
>>> * 12 cores with HT @ 2,4 GHz
>>> * WB cache is enabled on the controller
>>> * 10Gbps network (doesn't help here)
>>> 
>>> The SSD is a 200G Intel DC S3700 and is capable of delivering around 29K 
>>> iops with random 4k writes (my fio results) As a benchmark tool I used fio 
>>> with the rbd engine (thanks deutsche telekom guys!).
>>> 
>>> O_DIECT and D_SYNC don't seem to be a problem for the SSD:
>>> 
>>> # dd if=/dev/urandom of=rand.file bs=4k count=65536
>>> 65536+0 records in
>>> 65536+0 records out
>>> 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 29.5477 s, 9.1 MB/s
>>> 
>>> # du -sh rand.file
>>> 256M    rand.file
>>> 
>>> # dd if=rand.file of=/dev/sdo bs=4k count=65536 oflag=dsync,direct
>>> 65536+0 records in
>>> 65536+0 records out
>>> 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 2.73628 s, 98.1 MB/s
>>> 
>>> See my ceph.conf:
>>> 
>>> [global]
>>>  auth cluster required = cephx
>>>  auth service required = cephx
>>>  auth client required = cephx
>>>  fsid = 857b8609-8c9b-499e-9161-2ea67ba51c97
>>>  osd pool default pg num = 4096
>>>  osd pool default pgp num = 4096
>>>  osd pool default size = 2
>>>  osd crush chooseleaf type = 0
>>> 
>>>   debug lockdep = 0/0
>>>        debug context = 0/0
>>>        debug crush = 0/0
>>>        debug buffer = 0/0
>>>        debug timer = 0/0
>>>        debug journaler = 0/0
>>>        debug osd = 0/0
>>>        debug optracker = 0/0
>>>        debug objclass = 0/0
>>>        debug filestore = 0/0
>>>        debug journal = 0/0
>>>        debug ms = 0/0
>>>        debug monc = 0/0
>>>        debug tp = 0/0
>>>        debug auth = 0/0
>>>        debug finisher = 0/0
>>>        debug heartbeatmap = 0/0
>>>        debug perfcounter = 0/0
>>>        debug asok = 0/0
>>>        debug throttle = 0/0
>>> 
>>> [mon]
>>>  mon osd down out interval = 600
>>>  mon osd min down reporters = 13
>>>    [mon.ceph-01]
>>>    host = ceph-01
>>>    mon addr = 172.20.20.171
>>>      [mon.ceph-02]
>>>    host = ceph-02
>>>    mon addr = 172.20.20.172
>>>      [mon.ceph-03]
>>>    host = ceph-03
>>>    mon addr = 172.20.20.173
>>> 
>>>        debug lockdep = 0/0
>>>        debug context = 0/0
>>>        debug crush = 0/0
>>>        debug buffer = 0/0
>>>        debug timer = 0/0
>>>        debug journaler = 0/0
>>>        debug osd = 0/0
>>>        debug optracker = 0/0
>>>        debug objclass = 0/0
>>>        debug filestore = 0/0
>>>        debug journal = 0/0
>>>        debug ms = 0/0
>>>        debug monc = 0/0
>>>        debug tp = 0/0
>>>        debug auth = 0/0
>>>        debug finisher = 0/0
>>>        debug heartbeatmap = 0/0
>>>        debug perfcounter = 0/0
>>>        debug asok = 0/0
>>>        debug throttle = 0/0
>>> 
>>> [osd]
>>>  osd mkfs type = xfs
>>> osd mkfs options xfs = -f -i size=2048
>>> osd mount options xfs = rw,noatime,logbsize=256k,delaylog
>>>  osd journal size = 20480
>>>  cluster_network = 172.20.20.0/24
>>>  public_network = 172.20.20.0/24
>>>  osd mon heartbeat interval = 30
>>>  # Performance tuning
>>>  filestore merge threshold = 40
>>>  filestore split multiple = 8
>>>  osd op threads = 8
>>>  # Recovery tuning
>>>  osd recovery max active = 1
>>>  osd max backfills = 1
>>>  osd recovery op priority = 1
>>> 
>>> 
>>>        debug lockdep = 0/0
>>>        debug context = 0/0
>>>        debug crush = 0/0
>>>        debug buffer = 0/0
>>>        debug timer = 0/0
>>>        debug journaler = 0/0
>>>        debug osd = 0/0
>>>        debug optracker = 0/0
>>>        debug objclass = 0/0
>>>        debug filestore = 0/0
>>>        debug journal = 0/0
>>>        debug ms = 0/0
>>>        debug monc = 0/0
>>>        debug tp = 0/0
>>>        debug auth = 0/0
>>>        debug finisher = 0/0
>>>        debug heartbeatmap = 0/0
>>>        debug perfcounter = 0/0
>>>        debug asok = 0/0
>>>        debug throttle = 0/0
>>> 
>>> Disabling all debugging made me win 200/300 more IOPS.
>>> 
>>> See my fio template:
>>> 
>>> [global]
>>> #logging
>>> #write_iops_log=write_iops_log
>>> #write_bw_log=write_bw_log
>>> #write_lat_log=write_lat_lo
>>> 
>>> time_based
>>> runtime=60
>>> 
>>> ioengine=rbd
>>> clientname=admin
>>> pool=test
>>> rbdname=fio
>>> invalidate=0    # mandatory
>>> #rw=randwrite
>>> rw=write
>>> bs=4k
>>> #bs=32m
>>> size=5G
>>> group_reporting
>>> 
>>> [rbd_iodepth32]
>>> iodepth=32
>>> direct=1
>>> 
>>> See my rio output:
>>> 
>>> rbd_iodepth32: (g=0): rw=write, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=rbd, 
>>> iodepth=32 fio-2.1.11-14-gb74e Starting 1 process rbd engine: RBD version: 
>>> 0.1.8
>>> Jobs: 1 (f=1): [W(1)] [100.0% done] [0KB/12876KB/0KB /s] [0/3219/0 iops] 
>>> [eta 00m:00s]
>>> rbd_iodepth32: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=32116: Thu Aug 28 00:28:26 
>>> 2014
>>>  write: io=771448KB, bw=12855KB/s, iops=3213, runt= 60010msec
>>>    slat (usec): min=42, max=1578, avg=66.50, stdev=16.96
>>>    clat (msec): min=1, max=28, avg= 9.85, stdev= 1.48
>>>     lat (msec): min=1, max=28, avg= 9.92, stdev= 1.47
>>>    clat percentiles (usec):
>>>     |  1.00th=[ 6368],  5.00th=[ 8256], 10.00th=[ 8640], 20.00th=[ 9152],
>>>     | 30.00th=[ 9408], 40.00th=[ 9664], 50.00th=[ 9792], 60.00th=[10048],
>>>     | 70.00th=[10176], 80.00th=[10560], 90.00th=[10944], 95.00th=[11456],
>>>     | 99.00th=[13120], 99.50th=[16768], 99.90th=[25984], 99.95th=[27008],
>>>     | 99.99th=[28032]
>>>    bw (KB  /s): min=11864, max=13808, per=100.00%, avg=12864.36, 
>>> stdev=407.35
>>>    lat (msec) : 2=0.03%, 4=0.54%, 10=59.79%, 20=39.24%, 50=0.41%
>>>  cpu          : usr=19.15%, sys=4.69%, ctx=326309, majf=0, minf=426088
>>>  IO depths    : 1=0.1%, 2=0.1%, 4=0.1%, 8=0.1%, 16=33.9%, 32=66.1%, 
>>> >=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=99.6%, 8=0.4%, 16=0.1%, 32=0.1%, 64=0.0%, 
>>> >=64=0.0%
>>>     issued    : total=r=0/w=192862/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0
>>>     latency   : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=32
>>> 
>>> Run status group 0 (all jobs):
>>>  WRITE: io=771448KB, aggrb=12855KB/s, minb=12855KB/s, maxb=12855KB/s, 
>>> mint=60010msec, maxt=60010msec
>>> 
>>> Disk stats (read/write):
>>>    dm-1: ios=0/49, merge=0/0, ticks=0/12, in_queue=12, util=0.01%, 
>>> aggrios=0/22, aggrmerge=0/27, aggrticks=0/12, aggrin_queue=12, 
>>> aggrutil=0.01%
>>>  sda: ios=0/22, merge=0/27, ticks=0/12, in_queue=12, util=0.01%
>>> 
>>> I tried to tweak several parameters like:
>>> 
>>> filestore_wbthrottle_xfs_ios_start_flusher = 10000 
>>> filestore_wbthrottle_xfs_ios_hard_limit = 10000 
>>> filestore_wbthrottle_btrfs_ios_start_flusher = 10000 
>>> filestore_wbthrottle_btrfs_ios_hard_limit = 10000 filestore queue max ops = 
>>> 2000
>>> 
>>> But didn't any improvement.
>>> 
>>> Then I tried other things:
>>> 
>>> * Increasing the io_depth up to 256 or 512 gave me between 50 to 100 more 
>>> IOPS but it's not a realistic workload anymore and not that significant.
>>> * adding another SSD for the journal, still getting 3,2K IOPS
>>> * I tried with rbd bench and I also got 3K IOPS
>>> * I ran the test on a client machine and then locally on the server, still 
>>> getting 3,2K IOPS
>>> * put the journal in memory, still getting 3,2K IOPS
>>> * with 2 clients running the test in parallel I got a total of 3,6K IOPS 
>>> but I don't seem to be able to go over
>>> * I tried is to add another OSD to that SSD, so I had 2 OSD and 2 journals 
>>> on 1 SSD, got 4,5K IOPS YAY!
>>> 
>>> Given the results of the last time it seems that something is limiting the 
>>> number of IOPS per OSD process.
>>> 
>>> Running the test on a client or locally didn't show any difference.
>>> So it looks to me that there is some contention within Ceph that might 
>>> cause this.
>>> 
>>> I also ran perf and looked at the output, everything looks decent, but 
>>> someone might want to have a look at it :).
>>> 
>>> We have been able to reproduce this on 3 distinct platforms with some 
>>> deviations (because of the hardware) but the behaviour is the same.
>>> Any thoughts will be highly appreciated, only getting 3,2k out of an 29K 
>>> IOPS SSD is a bit frustrating :).
>>> 
>>> Cheers.
>>> ----
>>> Sébastien Han
>>> Cloud Architect 
>>> 
>>> "Always give 100%. Unless you're giving blood."
>>> 
>>> Phone: +33 (0)1 49 70 99 72
>>> Mail: 
>>> [email protected]
>>> 
>>> Address : 11 bis, rue Roquépine - 75008 Paris Web : 
>>> www.enovance.com
>>>  - Twitter : @enovance 
>>> 
>>> 
>> Cheers.
>> –––– 
>> Sébastien Han 
>> Cloud Architect 
>> 
>> "Always give 100%. Unless you're giving blood."
>> 
>> Phone: +33 (0)1 49 70 99 72 
>> Mail: 
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>>  
>> Address : 11 bis, rue Roquépine - 75008 Paris
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>> 
>> 
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