On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Graham Allan <[email protected]> wrote:

> We did some CBT tests here a few months ago which included some dmcrypt
> comparisons - the performance hit was non-zero, but close enough, around
> ~2-3%.
>
> (CentOS 7.2 with E5-2630 v4 cpus, jewel release, default dmcrypt
> parameters which IIRC is AES-XTS now)



Is it possible to share the CBT results? just to check.

Thanks
Swami





>
>

> On 1/3/2017 7:48 AM, Adrien Gillard wrote:
>
>> There has been talks on the subject in the mailing list before [1] which
>> concur with Nick's experience as long as you use AES-XTS.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2016-
>> March/008444.html
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Nick Fisk <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     __ __
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>>     __ __
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>>     *From:*ceph-users [mailto:[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Kent Borg
>>     *Sent:* 03 January 2017 12:47
>>     *To:* M Ranga Swami Reddy <[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>     *Cc:* ceph-users <[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>     *Subject:* Re: [ceph-users] performance with/without dmcrypt OSD____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     On 01/03/2017 06:42 AM, M Ranga Swami Reddy wrote:
>>
>>     ____
>>
>>         On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:17 AM, Kent Borg <[email protected]
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:____
>>
>>             __ __
>>
>>             Assuming I am understanding the question...
>>
>>             If there isn't too big a performance hit, it makes disk
>>             disposal (we expect disks to die, right?) much simpler.____
>>
>>         __ __
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>>         __ __
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>>         OK. Thanks. But if I have a big volumes in TB size (10 TB
>>         volume)  and writing/reading from the big volumes - will impact
>>         on performance like write and read speed?____
>>
>>
>>     I'd like to know, too.
>>
>>     -kb____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     Not specifically related to Ceph, but I built a 14 disk RAID 6 array
>>     (mdadm) for a recent “secure high performance seeding device in a
>>     briefcase” project and used dmcrypt on it. I could easily obtain
>>     over 1GB/s reads and writes. From tests there was no noticeable
>>     performance impact and CPU usage on a Xeon E3 was nothing to be
>>     concerned about. All modern CPU’s will HW accelerate the process if
>>     you use the AES-XTS cipher, I suspect there might be a severe
>>     performance impact without.____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     Also as Ceph+network itself brings a fair amount of overhead, I
>>     wouldn’t suspect that dmcrypt would introduce any noticeable
>>     overhead of its own.____
>>
>>
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> Minnesota Supercomputing Institute - [email protected]
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