XFS - configuration for multi-thread high-speed streams

[Eric Sandeen]

On 10/15/13 3:45 PM, Mike Jensen wrote:
> Hi Group - 1^st time post, looks like just use the email address I have seen from other posts
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> If the setup/info/questions below are not suitable for this list, is there another xfs list available for these??
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User questions are appropriate here, but since this is a Red Hat distro kernel, not upstream, it's probably better to engage Red Hat for information on optimal tuning of something like this.

-Eric

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> Thanks
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> mike
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> Configuration –
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> -          RH 6.4 on HP G8 server w/16GB mem (could add a lot more)
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> -          12Gb SAS connections (2) to storage
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> -          Storage
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> -          96 LFF HDD’s (4TB 7K NLSAS) presently organized as 8 x 10+2 R6 raidsets
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> -          8 volumes mapped to host ports (MPIO engaged)
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> -          Mdadm used to stripe (/dev/dm*) LUNs into a single md device (approx. 300+TB file system space)
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> -          Mkfs.xfs used to lay down file system
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> -          Workload
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> -          Application creates file of specified length in dir of mount point, IO’s then issued to file(s), each file receives 1 stream of IO
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> -          1 x high speed stream 1000MB/s Seq W (IO’s arrive as 512KB -=> 4MB frame would be 8 x 512KB IO’s)
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> -          2 x med-speed streams 200MB/s Seq W “
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> -          30-50 low speed streams 10MB/s Seq W “
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> Objectives/Questions –
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> -          Would like to optimize xfs/mount parameters to make maximal use of storage assets
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> -          Thinking of using 15K HDD R1 set for log files – would this get all/most of metadata or just a subset?  Right now seeing metadata writes arriving with data writes and want to peel them off the 7K HDD’s
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> -          Would using sub-directories for each file ensure that each subdir/file would be in it’s own alloc group? And that would keep the streaming data in a separate AG – could help the storage more efficiently destage the writes from cache to disk
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