Re: [ceph-users] command to flush rbd cache?

2015-02-04 Thread Josh Durgin

On 02/05/2015 07:44 AM, Udo Lembke wrote:

Hi all,
is there any command to flush the rbd cache like the
echo 3  /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches for the os cache?


librbd exposes it as rbd_invalidate_cache(), and qemu uses it
internally, but I don't think you can trigger that via any user-facing
qemu commands.

Exposing it through the admin socket would be pretty simple though:

http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/2468

You can also just detach and reattach the device to flush the rbd cache.

Josh
___
ceph-users mailing list
ceph-users@lists.ceph.com
http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com


Re: [ceph-users] command to flush rbd cache?

2015-02-04 Thread Udo Lembke
Hi Dan,
I mean qemu-kvm, also librbd.
But how I can kvm told to flush the buffer?

Udo

On 05.02.2015 07:59, Dan Mick wrote:
 On 02/04/2015 10:44 PM, Udo Lembke wrote:
 Hi all,
 is there any command to flush the rbd cache like the
 echo 3  /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches for the os cache?

 Udo
 Do you mean the kernel rbd or librbd?  The latter responds to flush
 requests from the hypervisor.  The former...I'm not sure it has a
 separate cache.


___
ceph-users mailing list
ceph-users@lists.ceph.com
http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com


Re: [ceph-users] command to flush rbd cache?

2015-02-04 Thread Dan Mick
On 02/04/2015 10:44 PM, Udo Lembke wrote:
 Hi all,
 is there any command to flush the rbd cache like the
 echo 3  /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches for the os cache?
 
 Udo

Do you mean the kernel rbd or librbd?  The latter responds to flush
requests from the hypervisor.  The former...I'm not sure it has a
separate cache.

-- 
Dan Mick
Red Hat, Inc.
Ceph docs: http://ceph.com/docs
___
ceph-users mailing list
ceph-users@lists.ceph.com
http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com


Re: [ceph-users] command to flush rbd cache?

2015-02-04 Thread Udo Lembke
Hi Josh,
thanks for the info.

detach/reattach schould be fine for me, because it's only for
performance testing.

#2468 would be fine of course.

Udo

On 05.02.2015 08:02, Josh Durgin wrote:
 On 02/05/2015 07:44 AM, Udo Lembke wrote:
 Hi all,
 is there any command to flush the rbd cache like the
 echo 3  /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches for the os cache?

 librbd exposes it as rbd_invalidate_cache(), and qemu uses it
 internally, but I don't think you can trigger that via any user-facing
 qemu commands.

 Exposing it through the admin socket would be pretty simple though:

 http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/2468

 You can also just detach and reattach the device to flush the rbd cache.

 Josh

___
ceph-users mailing list
ceph-users@lists.ceph.com
http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com


[ceph-users] command to flush rbd cache?

2015-02-04 Thread Udo Lembke
Hi all,
is there any command to flush the rbd cache like the
echo 3  /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches for the os cache?

Udo
___
ceph-users mailing list
ceph-users@lists.ceph.com
http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com


Re: [ceph-users] command to flush rbd cache?

2015-02-04 Thread Dan Mick
I don't know the details well; I know the device itself supports the
block-device-level cache-flush commands (I know there's a SCSI-specific
one but I don't know offhand if there's a device generic one) so the
guest OS can, and does, request flushing.  I can't remember if there's
also a qemu command to prompt the virtual device to flush without
telling the guest.

On 02/04/2015 11:08 PM, Udo Lembke wrote:
 Hi Dan,
 I mean qemu-kvm, also librbd.
 But how I can kvm told to flush the buffer?
 
 Udo
 
 On 05.02.2015 07:59, Dan Mick wrote:
 On 02/04/2015 10:44 PM, Udo Lembke wrote:
 Hi all,
 is there any command to flush the rbd cache like the
 echo 3  /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches for the os cache?

 Udo
 Do you mean the kernel rbd or librbd?  The latter responds to flush
 requests from the hypervisor.  The former...I'm not sure it has a
 separate cache.
___
ceph-users mailing list
ceph-users@lists.ceph.com
http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com