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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 21:52:56 +0200
From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To: Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@...ud.ionos.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Alexandr Iarygin <alexandr.iarygin@...ud.ionos.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel 4.14 + has 100 times higher IO latency than Kernel 4.4
with raid1
Dear Jinpu,
On 02.08.19 16:48, Jinpu Wang wrote:
> We found a problem regarding much higher IO latency when running
> kernel 4.4.131 compare to 4.14.133, tried with latest upstream
> 5.3-rc2, same result.
>
> Reproducer:
> 1 create md raid1 with 2 ram disks:
> sudo mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 -e1.2 --bitmap=internal /dev/ram[0-1]
> 2 run fio command with rate_iops:
> fio --rw=write --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32 --size=1000MB
> --rate_iops=5000 --direct=1 --numjobs=1 --runtime=20 --time_based
> --name=write-test --filename=/dev/md0
>
> result on 4.4 kernel:
> root@ib2:~# fio --rw=write --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32
> --size=1000MB --rate_iops=5000 --direct=1 --numjobs=1 --runtime=20
> --time_based --name=write-test --filename=/dev/md0
> write-test: (g=0): rw=write, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=32
> fio-2.2.10
> Starting 1 process
> Jobs: 1 (f=1), CR=5000/0 IOPS: [W(1)] [100.0% done] [0KB/20008KB/0KB
> /s] [0/5002/0 iops] [eta 00m:00s]
> write-test: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=3351: Fri Aug 2 15:31:26 2019
> write: io=400004KB, bw=19999KB/s, iops=4999, runt= 20001msec
> slat (usec): min=3, max=26, avg= 3.12, stdev= 0.36
> clat (usec): min=0, max=116, avg= 2.04, stdev= 1.33
> lat (usec): min=3, max=141, avg= 5.19, stdev= 1.39
> clat percentiles (usec):
> | 1.00th=[ 1], 5.00th=[ 2], 10.00th=[ 2], 20.00th=[ 2],
> | 30.00th=[ 2], 40.00th=[ 2], 50.00th=[ 2], 60.00th=[ 2],
> | 70.00th=[ 2], 80.00th=[ 2], 90.00th=[ 2], 95.00th=[ 3],
> | 99.00th=[ 3], 99.50th=[ 3], 99.90th=[ 3], 99.95th=[ 3],
> | 99.99th=[ 86]
> bw (KB /s): min=20000, max=20008, per=100.00%, avg=20005.54, stdev= 3.74
> lat (usec) : 2=3.37%, 4=96.60%, 10=0.01%, 20=0.01%, 50=0.01%
> lat (usec) : 100=0.01%, 250=0.01%
> cpu : usr=4.25%, sys=0.00%, ctx=198550, majf=0, minf=11
> IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.1%, 4=0.1%, 8=0.1%, 16=0.1%, 32=0.1%, >=64=0.0%
> submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
> complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
> issued : total=r=0/w=100001/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0, drop=r=0/w=0/d=0
> latency : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=32
>
> Run status group 0 (all jobs):
> WRITE: io=400004KB, aggrb=19999KB/s, minb=19999KB/s, maxb=19999KB/s,
> mint=20001msec, maxt=20001msec
>
> Disk stats (read/write):
> md0: ios=61/99539, merge=0/0, ticks=0/0, in_queue=0, util=0.00%,
> aggrios=0/0, aggrmerge=0/0, aggrticks=0/0, aggrin_queue=0,
> aggrutil=0.00%
>
> result on 5.3 kernel
> root@ib1:/home/jwang# fio --rw=write --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32
> --size=1000MB --rate_iops=5 --direct=1 --numjobs=1 --runtime=20
> --time_based --name=write-test --filename=/dev/md0
> write-test: (g=0): rw=write, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=32
> fio-2.2.10
> Starting 1 process
> Jobs: 1 (f=1), CR=5/0 IOPS: [W(1)] [100.0% done] [0KB/20KB/0KB /s]
> [0/5/0 iops] [eta 00m:00s]
> write-test: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=1651: Fri Aug 2 17:16:18 2019
> write: io=413696B, bw=20683B/s, iops=5, runt= 20001msec
> slat (usec): min=2, max=51803, avg=1028.62, stdev=7250.96
> clat (usec): min=0, max=91, avg=17.76, stdev=28.07
> lat (usec): min=3, max=51892, avg=1046.50, stdev=7254.89
> clat percentiles (usec):
> | 1.00th=[ 0], 5.00th=[ 0], 10.00th=[ 0], 20.00th=[ 0],
> | 30.00th=[ 1], 40.00th=[ 1], 50.00th=[ 1], 60.00th=[ 1],
> | 70.00th=[ 19], 80.00th=[ 44], 90.00th=[ 68], 95.00th=[ 80],
> | 99.00th=[ 88], 99.50th=[ 91], 99.90th=[ 91], 99.95th=[ 91],
> | 99.99th=[ 91]
> bw (KB /s): min= 20, max= 21, per=100.00%, avg=20.04, stdev= 0.21
> lat (usec) : 2=67.33%, 10=0.99%, 20=1.98%, 50=11.88%, 100=17.82%
> cpu : usr=0.00%, sys=0.00%, ctx=77, majf=0, minf=10
> IO depths : 1=68.3%, 2=2.0%, 4=4.0%, 8=7.9%, 16=15.8%, 32=2.0%, >=64=0.0%
> submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
> complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
> issued : total=r=0/w=101/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0, drop=r=0/w=0/d=0
> latency : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=32
>
> Run status group 0 (all jobs):
> WRITE: io=404KB, aggrb=20KB/s, minb=20KB/s, maxb=20KB/s,
> mint=20001msec, maxt=20001msec
>
> Disk stats (read/write):
> md0: ios=0/100, merge=0/0, ticks=0/0, in_queue=0, util=0.00%,
> aggrios=0/0, aggrmerge=0/0, aggrticks=0/0, aggrin_queue=0,
> aggrutil=0.00%
> ram0: ios=0/0, merge=0/0, ticks=0/0, in_queue=0, util=0.00%
> ram1: ios=0/0, merge=0/0, ticks=0/0, in_queue=0, util=0.00%
>
> During the tests the following kernel parameters are applied:
> processor.max_cstate=0 idle=poll mitigations=off
>
> Could anyone give us a hint, what could lead to such a huge difference?
Sorry, I have no idea, but as you can easily reproduce it with RAM
disks, bisecting the commit causing this quite easily.
Your tests should also be added to some test suite (kselftest)?
Kind regards,
Paul
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