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Message-ID: <20100420193952.GP5660@tracyreed.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:39:52 -0700
From: Tracy Reed <treed@...raviolet.org>
To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@....fi>
Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
Aoetools-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] domU is causing misaligned disk writes
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:49:55AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen spake thusly:
> Please paste your domU partition table:
> sfdisk -d /dev/xvda
I have tried many different things including dd straight to the raw
unpartitioned device. That should not be affected by
partitioning/lvm/filesystem problems right?
> Are you using filesystems on normal partitions, or LVM in the domU?
> I'm pretty sure this is a domU partitioning problem.
I have done all of the above. Here I am an xvdg device in my domU to
which I am directly doing a dd to, no partitioning or anything:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xvdg bs=4096 count=3000000
3000000+0 records in
3000000+0 records out
12288000000 bytes (12 GB) copied, 449.109 seconds, 27.4 MB/s
# /sbin/sfdisk -d /dev/xvdg
sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
/dev/xvdg: unrecognized partition table type
No partitions found
and running iostat on the target shows the following:
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 3474.60 1070.60 46.40 4311.20 13680.00 32.21 2.08 1.83 0.49 54.32
sdb 0.00 3376.00 1060.20 45.60 4289.60 13686.40 32.51 2.46 2.23 0.53 58.12
Or I can partition it with a geometry of 248 heads and 56 sectors
which is a multiple of 8 which should avoid the misalignment due to
the extra partition table (there is a partition on the physical disk
on the target already then I create a logical volume to export to the
initiator which then puts its own partition in it which causes
misalignment):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xvdg1 bs=4096 count=3000000
3000000+0 records in
3000000+0 records out
12288000000 bytes (12 GB) copied, 445.338 seconds, 27.6 MB/s
# /sbin/sfdisk -d /dev/xvdg
# partition table of /dev/xvdg
unit: sectors
/dev/xvdg1 : start= 56, size=566227592, Id=8e
/dev/xvdg2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/xvdg3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/xvdg4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 3472.20 1188.20 51.00 4805.60 14097.60 30.51 2.71 2.13 0.52 64.02
sdb 0.00 3472.40 1187.00 52.00 4784.00 14092.80 30.47 2.82 2.22 0.56 68.80
Or I can take a standard partition geometry and set it to start at 64
instead of 63 like so many RAID alignment pages talk about:
It is taking even longer this time and I am tired of waiting for dd
before sending off this email but suffice it to say it is painfully
slow.
# /sbin/sfdisk -d /dev/xvdg
# partition table of /dev/xvdg
unit: sectors
/dev/xvdg1 : start= 64, size=566226926, Id=83
/dev/xvdg2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/xvdg3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/xvdg4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 1832.73 1234.73 30.94 4991.62 7864.27 20.31 1.52 1.23 0.47 59.82
sdb 0.00 1835.13 1219.76 30.54 4916.57 7839.52 20.40 1.27 1.04 0.45 56.67
I would not be at all surprised if you are right about it being a domU
partitioning problem. But every scheme I have tried has failed to work
properly. Appreciate any pointers.
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Tracy Reed
http://tracyreed.org
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