Re: [Cluster-devel] RFC: growing files more than 4k at the time while writing

2018-08-16 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On 16/08/18 16:05, Stefano Panella wrote: Hi Steven, Thanks for your reply, unfortunately for us we need to wait a bit until we can take all the iomap changes because we are still on a 4.4 kernel and to backport the iomap framework would be huge. Regarding fixing the application to do

Re: [Cluster-devel] RFC: growing files more than 4k at the time while writing

2018-08-16 Thread Stefano Panella
Hi Steven, Thanks for your reply, unfortunately for us we need to wait a bit until we can take all the iomap changes because we are still on a 4.4 kernel and to backport the iomap framework would be huge. Regarding fixing the application to do fallocate 16MBs at the time, the problem is that

Re: [Cluster-devel] RFC: growing files more than 4k at the time while writing

2018-08-16 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On 16/08/18 13:56, Stefano Panella wrote: Hi, I am looking at gfs2 performance when there is Virtual Machine workload and have some questions: If we have a system where every host is writing sequentially, o_direct, 512k at the time, 20 files or more each host, we can see very high CPU

[Cluster-devel] RFC: growing files more than 4k at the time while writing

2018-08-16 Thread Stefano Panella
Hi, I am looking at gfs2 performance when there is Virtual Machine workload and have some questions: If we have a system where every host is writing sequentially, o_direct, 512k at the time, 20 files or more each host, we can see very high CPU usage and lot of contention on resource groups. I