Re: [Lsf] Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF

James Bottomley
2011-03-30T14:02:01Z

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 07:58 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 03/30/2011 01:09 AM, Shyam_Iyer@dell.com wrote:
> >
> > Let me back up here.. this has to be thought in not only the traditional Ethernet
> > sense but also in a Data Centre Bridged environment. I shouldn't
> have wandered
> > into the multipath constructs..
> >
> > I think the statement on not going to the same LUN was a little erroneous. I meant
> > different /dev/sdXs.. and hence different block I/O queues.
> >
> > Each I/O queue could be thought of as a bandwidth queue class being serviced through
> > a corresponding network adapter's queue(assuming a multiqueue
> capable adapter)
> >
> > Let us say /dev/sda(Through eth0) and /dev/sdb(eth1) are a cgroup bandwidth group
> > corresponding to a weightage of 20% of the I/O bandwidth the user
> has configured
> > this weight thinking that this will correspond to say 200Mb of
> bandwidth.
> >
> > Let us say the network bandwidth on the corresponding network queues corresponding
> > was reduced by the DCB capable switch...
> > We still need an SLA of 200Mb of I/O bandwidth but the underlying dynamics have changed.
> >
> > In such a scenario the option is to move I/O to a different bandwidth priority queue
> > in the network adapter. This could be moving I/O to a new network
> queue in eth0 or
> > another queue in eth1 ..
> >
> > This requires mapping the block queue to the new network queue.
> >
> > One way of solving this is what is getting into the open-iscsi world i.e. creating
> > a session tagged to the relevant DCB priority and thus the
> session gets mapped
> > to the relevant tc queue which ultimately maps to one of the
> network adapters multiqueue..
> >
> > But when multipath fails over to the different session path then the DCB bandwidth
> > priority will not move with it..
> >
> > Ok one could argue that is a user mistake to have configured bandwidth priorities
> > differently but it may so happen that the bandwidth priority was
> just dynamically
> > changed by the switch for the particular queue.
> >
> > Although I gave an example of a DCB environment but we could definitely look at
> > doing a 1:n map of block queues to network adapter queues for
> non-DCB environments too..
> >
> That sounds quite convoluted enough to warrant it's own slot :-)
>
> No, seriously. I think it would be good to have a separate slot
> discussing DCB (be it FCoE or iSCSI) and cgroups.
> And how to best align these things.

OK, I'll go for that ... Data Centre Bridging; experiences, technologies
and needs ... something like that. What about virtualisation and open
vSwitch?

James