Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-19 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:05:47 -0700 Gregory Farnum wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk wrote: Hi Greg, Thanks for your input and completely agree that we cannot expect developers to fully document what impact each setting has on a cluster,

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-19 Thread Nick Fisk
I think this could be part of what I am seeing. I found this post from back in 2003 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.devel/12083 Which seems to describe a work around for the behaviour to what I am seeing. The constant small block IO I was seeing looks like it was either

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-19 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Christian Balzer ch...@gol.com wrote: Hello, On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:05:47 -0700 Gregory Farnum wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk wrote: Hi Greg, Thanks for your input and completely agree that we cannot expect

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-18 Thread Nick Fisk
:57 To: Christian Balzer Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync? On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Christian Balzer ch...@gol.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:09:12 -0700 Gregory Farnum wrote: Nothing here particularly

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-18 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk wrote: Hi Greg, Thanks for your input and completely agree that we cannot expect developers to fully document what impact each setting has on a cluster, particularly in a performance related way That said, if you or others could

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-16 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk wrote: I’m not sure if it’s something I’m doing wrong or just experiencing an oddity, but when my cache tier flushes dirty blocks out to the base tier, the writes seem to hit the OSD’s straight away instead of coalescing in the

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-16 Thread Christian Balzer
-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Gregory Farnum Sent: 16 March 2015 17:33 To: Nick Fisk Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync? On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk wrote: I’m

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-16 Thread Nick Fisk
-Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Gregory Farnum Sent: 16 March 2015 17:33 To: Nick Fisk Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync? On Wed, Mar 11

Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-16 Thread Gregory Farnum
: 16 March 2015 17:33 To: Nick Fisk Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync? On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk wrote: I’m not sure if it’s something I’m doing wrong or just experiencing an oddity

[ceph-users] Cache Tier Flush = immediate base tier journal sync?

2015-03-11 Thread Nick Fisk
I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong or just experiencing an oddity, but when my cache tier flushes dirty blocks out to the base tier, the writes seem to hit the OSD's straight away instead of coalescing in the journals, is this correct? For example if I create a RBD on a standard 3 way