> Op 23 augustus 2016 om 18:32 schreef Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Nick Fisk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Wido den Hollander [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: 22 August 2016 18:22
> >> To: ceph-users <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [ceph-users] udev rule to set readahead on Ceph RBD's
> >>
> >>
> >> > Op 22 augustus 2016 om 15:17 schreef Nick Fisk <[email protected]>:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Hope it's useful to someone
> >> >
> >> > https://gist.github.com/fiskn/6c135ab218d35e8b53ec0148fca47bf6
> >> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for sharing. Might this be worth adding it to ceph-common?
> >
> > Maybe, Ilya kindly set the default for krbd to 4MB last year in the kernel, 
> > but maybe having this available would be handy if people ever want a 
> > different default. It could be set to 4MB as well, with a note somewhere to 
> > point people at its direction if they need to change it.
> 
> I remember you running tests and us talking about it, but I didn't
> actually do it - the default is still a standard kernel-wide 128k.
> I hesitated because it's obviously a trade off and we didn't have
> a clear winner.  Whatever (sensible) default we pick, users with
> demanding all sequential workloads would want to crank it up anyway.
> 
> I don't have an opinion on the udev file.
> 

I would vote for adding it to ceph-common so that it's there and users can 
easily change it.

We can still default it to 128k which makes it just a file change for users.

Wido

> >
> >>
> >> And is 16MB something we should want by default or does this apply to your 
> >> situation better?
> >
> > It sort of applies to me. With a 4MB readahead you will probably struggle 
> > to get much more than around 50-80MB/s sequential reads, as the read ahead 
> > will only ever hit 1 object at a time. If you want to get nearer 200MB/s 
> > then you need to set either 16 or 32MB readahead. I need it to stream to 
> > LTO6 tape. Depending on what you are doing this may or may not be required.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>                 Ilya
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