Re: about the xfs performance

Songbo Wang
2016-04-13T17:27:10Z

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Hi Dave,

Thank you for your suggestion, and very appreciate for your reply!

2016-04-13 5:31 GMT+08:00 Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:07:45PM +0800, Songbo Wang wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Thank you for your reply. I did some test today and described those as
> > follows:
> >
> > Delete the existing test file , and redo the test : fio -ioengine=libaio
> > -bs=4k -direct=1 -thread -rw=randwrite -size=50G -filename=/mnt/test
> > -name="EBS 4KB randwrite test" -iodepth=64 -runtime=60
> > The iops resultes is 19ką(per second); I continue to fio this test file
> > untill it was filled to the full. Then I did another test using the same
> > test case, the results was 210ką(per second).(The results mentioned
>
> Yup, that's when the workload goes from allocation bound to being an
> overwrite workload when there is no allocation occurring.
>
> Perhaps you should preallocate the file using the fallocate=posix
> option. This will move the initial overhead to IO completion, so
> won't block submission, and the file will not end up a fragmented
> mess as the written areas will merge back into large single extents
> as more of the file is written.
>
> > yesterday was partial. I used the same test file several times, the
> > results degraded because of the test file was not fill to the full)
> >
> > I try to remake the filesystem using the following command to increase
> the
> > internal log size , inode size and agcount num:
> > mkfs.xfs /dev/hioa2 -f -n size=64k -i size=2048,align=1 -d agcount=2045
> -l
> > size=512m
> > but it has no help to the result.
>
> Of course it won't. Turning random knobs without knowing what they
> do will not solve the problem. Indeed, if you're workload is
> performance limited because it is running out of log space, then
> *reducing the log size* will not solve the issue.
>
> Users who tweaking knobs without understanding what they do or how
> they affect the application is the leading cause of filesystem
> performance and reliability issues on XFS. Just don't do it - all
> you'll do is cause something to go wrong when you can least afford
> it to happen.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com
>

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