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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 07.01.15 um 18:00 schrieb Richard
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<div class="">On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:28 AM, Stephan Budach <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:stephan.budach@JVM.DE" class="">stephan.budach@JVM.DE</a>> wrote:</div>
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I am sharing my zfs via NFS to a couple of OVM nodes. I
noticed really bad NFS read performance, when rsize goes
beyond 128k, whereas the performance is just fine at
32k. The issue is, that the ovs-agent, which is
performing the actual mount, doesn't accept or pass any
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<div class="">The other issue is that illumos/Solaris on x86 tuning of
server-side size settings does</div>
<div class="">not work because the compiler optimizes away the tunables.
There is a trivial fix, but it</div>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">To give
some numbers, a rsize of 1mb results in a read
throughput of approx. 2Mb/s, whereas a rsize of 32k
gives me 110Mb/s. Mounting a NFS export from a OEL 6u4
box has no issues with this, as the read speeds from
this export are 108+MB/s regardles of the rsize of the
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<div class="">Brendan wrote about a similar issue in the Dtrace book as a
case study. See chapter 5</div>
<div class="">case study on ZFS 8KB mirror reads.</div>
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The OmniOS box is currently connected to a 10GbE port at
our core 6509, but the NFS client is connected through a
1GbE port only. MTU is at 1500 and can currently not be
upped.<br class="">
Anyone having a tip, why a rsize of 64k+ will result in
such a performance drop?<br class="">
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<div class="">It is entirely due to optimizations for small I/O going way
back to the 1980s.</div>
<div class=""> -- richard</div>
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But, doesn't that mean, that Oracle Solaris will have the same issue
or has Oracle addressed that in recent Solaris versions? Not, that I
am intending to switch over, but that would be something I'd like to
give my SR engineer to chew on…<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Look for yourself :-)</div><div>In "broken" systems, such as this Solaris 11.1 system:</div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class=""># echo nfs3_tsize::dis | mdb -k</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize: pushq %rbp</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+1: movq %rsp,%rbp</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+4: subq $0x8,%rsp</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+8: movq %rdi,-0x8(%rbp)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0xc: movl (%rdi),%eax</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0xe: leal -0x2(%rax),%ecx</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x11: cmpl $0x1,%ecx</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x14: jbe +0x12 <nfs3_tsize+0x28></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x16: cmpl $0x5,%eax</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x19: movl $0x100000,%eax</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x1e: movl $0x8000,%ecx</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x23: cmovl.ne %ecx,%eax</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x26: jmp +0x5 <nfs3_tsize+0x2d></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x28: movl $0x100000,%eax</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x2d: leave </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(215, 201, 167); background-color: rgb(142, 53, 40);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x2e: ret </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">at +0x19 you'll notice hardwired 1MB</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">by contrast, on a proper system</div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class=""># echo nfs3_tsize::dis | mdb -k</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize: pushq %rbp</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+1: movq %rsp,%rbp</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+4: subq $0x10,%rsp</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+8: movq %rdi,-0x8(%rbp)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0xc: movl (%rdi),%edx</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0xe: leal -0x2(%rdx),%eax</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x11: cmpl $0x1,%eax</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x14: jbe +0x12 <nfs3_tsize+0x28></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x16: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">movl -0x37f8ea60(%rip),%eax <nfs3_max_transfer_size_rdma></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x1c: cmpl $0x5,%edx</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x1f: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">cmovl.ne -0x37f8ea72(%rip),%eax <nfs3_max_transfer_size_clts></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x26: leave </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x27: ret </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x28: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">movl -0x37f8ea76(%rip),%eax <nfs3_max_transfer_size_cots></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x2e: leave </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(76, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 196);" class="">nfs3_tsize+0x2f: ret </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">where you can actually tune it according to the Solaris Tunable Parameters guide.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NB, we fixed this years ago at Nexenta and I'm certain it has not been upstreamed. There are</div><div class="">a number of other related fixes, all of the same nature. If someone is inclined to upstream </div><div class="">contact me directly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once, fixed, you'll be able to change the server's settings for negotiating the rsize/wsize with</div><div class="">the clients. Many NAS vendors use smaller limits, and IMHO it is a good idea anyway. For </div><div class="">example, see <a href="http://blog.richardelling.com/2012/04/latency-and-io-size-cars-vs-trains.html" class="">http://blog.richardelling.com/2012/04/latency-and-io-size-cars-vs-trains.html</a></div><div class=""> -- richard</div></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="">
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In any way, the first bummer is, that Oracle chose to not have it's
ovs-agent be capable of accepting and passing the NFS mount options…<br class="">
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Cheers,<br class="">
budy<br class="">
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