On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 07:14:53AM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > Thank you for the analysis. I have some further comments: > > First off, filebench pre-writes the files before doing oltp benchmarks, so I > dont think the thin provisioning is at play here. > I will double check this, but if you dont hear otherwise, please presume that > is the case :) > > Secondly, I am surprised at your recommendation to use virtio instead of > virtio-scsi. since the writeup for virtio-scsi claims it has equivalent > performance in general, and adds better scaling > https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/virtio-scsi.html > > As far as your suggestion for using multiple disks for scaling higher: > We are using an SSD. Isnt the whole advantage of using SSD drives, that you > can get the IOP/s performance of 10 drives, out of a single drive? > We certainly get that using it natively, outside of a VM. > SO it would be nice to see performance approaching that within an ovirt VM.
Hi, At first glance it appears that the filebench OLTP workload does not use O_DIRECT, so this isn't a measurement of pure disk I/O performance: https://github.com/filebench/filebench/blob/master/workloads/oltp.f If you suspect that disk performance is the issue please run a benchmark that bypasses the page cache using O_DIRECT. The fio setting is direct=1. Here is an example fio job for 70% read/30% write 4KB random I/O: [global] filename=/path/to/device runtime=120 ioengine=libaio direct=1 ramp_time=10 # start measuring after warm-up time [read] readwrite=randrw rwmixread=70 rwmixwrite=30 iodepth=64 blocksize=4k (Based on https://blog.vmsplice.net/2017/11/common-disk-benchmarking-mistakes.html) Stefan
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