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Date:	Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:23:45 -0700
From:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
To:	target-devel <target-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <mail@...nes-reinecke.de>,
	Andy Grover <agrover@...hat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...il.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Subject: SCSI small block random I/O performance on 3.6-rc0 using SCSI
 loopback ports

Hello SCSI + target folks,

I've recently been running fio benchmarks using rd_mcp (TCM ramdisk) +
SCSI loopback fabric ports to get an idea of how baseline bare-metal
target performance is shaping up for SCSI core using 3.6-rc0 code with
mixed small block random I/O workloads, and wanted to share these
results.

The machine in question is a dual Xeon-E5-2687W (Romley-EP) 3.10 Ghz w/
32x threads + 32 GB of DDR3 1600Mhz memory.  Each rd_mcp is 500MB is in
size, and is setting emulate_write_cache=1 to expose WCE=1 to SCSI core.
The loopback SCSI LLD is also running with SCSI host_lockless mode
enabled.

The full results are attached below, with the principle results:

workload:       |  25 write / 75 read |  75 write / 25 read |
----------------|---------------------|---------------------|
32x rd_mcp LUNs |    ~1185K IOPs      |   ~1175K IOPs       |
10x rd_mcp LUNs |    ~944K IOPs       |   ~928K IOPs        |

This is the first time we've been able to push SCSI LUNs beyond the 1
million mixed random IOPs range with loopback + rd_mcp..

For the 32x rd_mcp LUNs case user CPU load is being reported as ~95%,
and sys CPU load is at ~5%.

Reducing the number of loopback LUNs to 10x produces ~935k IOPs for the
same numjobs=32 workload, that ends up being about ~93.5K IOPs per SCSI
LUN.. 

For reference, this is using Jen's previous recommendations for optimal
small block random I/O performance with 32x loopback LUNs + numjobs=32
here:

[randrw]
rw=randrw
rwmixwrite=25
rwmixread=75
ioengine=libaio
direct=1
size=100G
iodepth=64
iodepth_batch=4
iodepth_batch_complete=32
numjobs=32
blocksize=4k

filename=/dev/sdb
filename=/dev/sdc
filename=/dev/sdd
filename=/dev/sde
filename=/dev/sdf
filename=/dev/sdg
filename=/dev/sdh
filename=/dev/sdi
filename=/dev/sdj
filename=/dev/sdk
filename=/dev/sdl
filename=/dev/sdm
filename=/dev/sdn
filename=/dev/sdo
filename=/dev/sdp
filename=/dev/sdq
filename=/dev/sdr
filename=/dev/sds
filename=/dev/sdt
filename=/dev/sdu
filename=/dev/sdv
filename=/dev/sdw
filename=/dev/sdx
filename=/dev/sdy
filename=/dev/sdz
filename=/dev/sdaa
filename=/dev/sdab
filename=/dev/sdac
filename=/dev/sdad
filename=/dev/sdae
filename=/dev/sdaf
filename=/dev/sdag

Along with the top-level output from /backstores + /loopback objects in
rtsadmin/targetlci shell:

/> ls backstores/
o- backstores ............................................................ [...]
  o- fileio ................................................. [1 Storage Object]
  | o- fileio_vhost_test .............. [/usr/src/fileio_vhost_test deactivated]
  o- iblock ................................................. [0 Storage Object]
  o- pscsi .................................................. [0 Storage Object]
  o- rd_dr .................................................. [0 Storage Object]
  o- rd_mcp ............................................... [32 Storage Objects]
    o- ramdisk0 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk1 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk10 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk11 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk12 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk13 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk14 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk15 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk16 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk17 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk18 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk19 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk2 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk20 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk21 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk22 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk23 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk24 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk25 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk26 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk27 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk28 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk29 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk3 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk30 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk31 ........................................... [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk4 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk5 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk6 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk7 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk8 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
    o- ramdisk9 ............................................ [ramdisk activated]
/> ls loopback/
o- loopback ....................................................... [32 Targets]
  o- naa.600140508aa83c15 ............................... [naa.6001405c56c93ba0]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk7 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405169ce2b93 ............................... [naa.6001405d6f9a3285]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk5 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014051e0d1dcbb ............................... [naa.6001405c1e3e07ff]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk1 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014051e9293b89 ............................... [naa.600140566b195426]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk8 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014052154d6616 ............................... [naa.60014054eca52e01]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk19 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405269f15722 ............................... [naa.6001405503d329f0]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk18 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014053bd681c72 ............................... [naa.6001405bd40c5e63]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk6 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.600140544577c8ee ............................... [naa.60014058975b162e]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk14 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014055fd219128 ............................... [naa.6001405854d06025]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk4 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014056803182ac ............................... [naa.600140573b6189a5]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk10 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014056bd49556d ............................... [naa.6001405a2b76c6d0]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk28 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.600140574b9f5ab5 ............................... [naa.60014052389330ac]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk13 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.600140579b070a5b ............................... [naa.60014057a53f54f0]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk9 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014057ba8fa3d4 ............................... [naa.6001405b5e063bd3]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk17 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014057d1d2a3b7 ............................... [naa.60014056a43e3b6f]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk16 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014057d22f6d95 ............................... [naa.60014051fa1eddf1]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk23 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014058d7563f6d ............................... [naa.6001405461fe7980]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk21 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014058e31ee45c ............................... [naa.6001405c076ebea4]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk31 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014059310d31fd ............................... [naa.6001405dd72b4e16]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk12 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405969efea55 ............................... [naa.6001405b790df9d1]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk22 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.60014059849dabee ............................... [naa.6001405cfaae685a]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk11 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.600140599e07bd25 ............................... [naa.6001405c22796f44]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk24 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405a5ce5a7a8 ............................... [naa.6001405d009f9147]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk27 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405ace9d83f9 ............................... [naa.600140523fad7754]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk3 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405af0bbc150 ............................... [naa.60014059260b6690]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk15 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405c275006b3 ............................... [naa.60014053aabec3bb]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk2 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405c43e2074a ............................... [naa.60014052a5e8aaad]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk25 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405c98babdf4 ............................... [naa.6001405aeb67b36e]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk20 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405d5ca3a6f2 ............................... [naa.6001405089a04ffe]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk26 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405e82fdb9a3 ............................... [naa.60014057e8b683e9]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk30 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405fb50ec5e8 ............................... [naa.60014054588a0e02]
  | o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
  |   o- lun0 ..................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk29 (ramdisk)]
  o- naa.6001405fe73bfb5b ............................... [naa.6001405b9442d8f8]
    o- luns ............................................................ [1 LUN]
      o- lun0 ...................................... [rd_mcp/ramdisk0 (ramdisk)]
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