From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Syed Mushtaq <syed1.mushtaq@gmail.com>
Cc: "Tutkowski, Mike" <Mike.Tutkowski@netapp.com>,
Will Stevens <wstevens@cloudops.com>,
Marc Vaillancourt <mvaillancourt@cloudops.com>,
Pierre-Luc Dion <pdion@cloudops.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Tim Mackey <Timothy.Mackey@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: LVM performance problems with large number of VGs
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:38:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1604011836350.9476@mac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADMzvUpzD6bz2hzF+Ji+cTUBhxAWKC2j9mJ32t9UQXGM3W4k4Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Syed Mushtaq wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am testing out a system in which each Guest disk is mapped to a LUN on a backend storage. I am using Xenserver 6.5 for this and creating an SR with a single VDI inside it for each Guest disk.
> The way it would work is, from an LVM point of view, I would have a Volume Group (VG) for each virtual disk and a single logical volume (LV) inside that VG. What I am seeing is that creating new
> volume groups is taking a lot of time. In my test after creating about 600 volume groups, it took about 4 seconds to create a new one. I have observed this to be a linear trend where the more
> VGs I add the slower future operations become. Other operations like getting the logical volumes inside a VG have also slowed down (even though there is only 1 LV per VG).
>
> I was wondering if anyone here faced a similar problem or had some experience in dealing with LVM bottlenecks.
It doesn't seem like this is related to Xen, so I would recommend that you
ask in the linux-lvm [0] mailing list. TBH, I have no idea how well LVM
scales in these kind of scenarios.
Roger.
[0] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-01 14:23 LVM performance problems with large number of VGs Syed Mushtaq
2016-04-01 15:22 ` Wei Liu
2016-04-01 15:53 ` Syed Mushtaq
2016-04-01 16:38 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2016-04-01 17:19 ` Syed Mushtaq
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