And for reference, we see 0-1ms on Intel NVMe SSDs for commit latency.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Gregory Farnum <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Xu (Simon) Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've always been confused about the apply/commit latency numbers in "ceph
> > osd perf" output. I only know for sure that when they get too high,
> > performance is bad.
> >
> > My deployments have seen many different versions of ceph. Pre 0.80.7,
> I've
> > seen those numbers being pretty high. After upgrading to 0.80.7, all of a
> > sudden, commit latency of all OSDs drop to 0-1ms, and apply latency
> remains
> > pretty low most of the time.
> >
> > Now I'm trying hammer in a new cluster, and even when the cluster is
> doing
> > nothing, I see commit latency being as high as 20ms, and apply latency
> being
> > 200+ms, which seems a bit off to me.
> >
> > Any ideas how these numbers changed over versions?
>
> Commit latency is how long it takes for an operation to be applied to
> disk — generally speaking, how long it takes the journal to write an
> entry. Apply latency is how long it takes to get applied to the
> backing filesystem (which can be throttled by various things to
> prevent us getting arbitrarily large amounts of dirty data).
>
> The speeds we can get on these haven't changed much, although they've
> generally gotten a little faster for Hammer. If you've seen wide
> variances I think it has more to do with the setup of each cluster or
> the state of the system at the time you ran the test than anything
> inherent. :)
>
> (For reference, the numbers I expect to see in a lightly-loaded SSD
> cluster are ~2ms commit times for writes, or just a bit less. Anything
> over 10 is definitely wrong, although that's close to correct for an
> SSD-journaled hard drive cluster — probably more like 5-7.)
> -Greg
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