[lustre-discuss] Lustre poor performance

Riccardo Veraldi Riccardo.Veraldi at cnaf.infn.it
Tue Aug 22 16:14:49 PDT 2017


On 8/22/17 9:22 AM, Mannthey, Keith wrote:
>
> You may want to file a jira ticket if ko2iblnd-opa setting were being
> automatically used on your Mellanox setup.  That is not expected.
>
yes they are automatically used on my Mellanox and the script
ko2iblnd-probe seems like not working properly.
>
>  
>
> On another note:  As you note you NVMe backend is much faster than QRD
> link speed.  You may want to look at using the new Multi-rall lnet
> feature to boost network bandwidth.  You can add a 2^nd QRD HCA/Port
> and get more Lnet bandwith from your OSS server.   It is a new feature
> that is a bit of work to use but if you are chasing bandwith it might
> be worth the effort.
>
I have a dual infiniband card so I was thinking to bond them to have
more bandwidth. Is this that you mean when you are talking about the
Muti-rail feature boost ?

thanks

Rick


>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
>
>  
>
> *From:*lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org]
> *On Behalf Of *Chris Horn
> *Sent:* Monday, August 21, 2017 12:40 PM
> *To:* Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi at cnaf.infn.it>; Arman
> Khalatyan <arm2arm at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> *Subject:* Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre poor performance
>
>  
>
> The ko2iblnd-opa settings are tuned specifically for Intel OmniPath.
> Take a look at the /usr/sbin/ko2iblnd-probe script to see how OPA
> hardware is detected and the “ko2iblnd-opa” settings get used.
>
>  
>
> Chris Horn
>
>  
>
> *From: *lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org
> <mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org>> on behalf of
> Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi at cnaf.infn.it
> <mailto:Riccardo.Veraldi at cnaf.infn.it>>
> *Date: *Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 5:00 PM
> *To: *Arman Khalatyan <arm2arm at gmail.com <mailto:arm2arm at gmail.com>>
> *Cc: *"lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> <mailto:lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org>"
> <lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org <mailto:lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org>>
> *Subject: *Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre poor performance
>
>  
>
> I ran again my Lnet self test and  this time adding --concurrency=16 
> I can use all of the IB bandwith (3.5GB/sec).
>
> the only thing I do not understand is why ko2iblnd.conf is not loaded
> properly and I had to remove the alias in the config file to allow
> the proper peer_credit settings to be loaded.
>
> thanks to everyone for helping
>
> Riccardo
>
> On 8/19/17 8:54 AM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
>
>
>     I found out that ko2iblnd is not getting settings from
>     /etc/modprobe/ko2iblnd.conf
>     alias ko2iblnd-opa ko2iblnd
>     options ko2iblnd-opa peer_credits=128 peer_credits_hiw=64
>     credits=1024 concurrent_sends=256 ntx=2048 map_on_demand=32
>     fmr_pool_size=2048 fmr_flush_trigger=512 fmr_cache=1 conns_per_peer=4
>
>     install ko2iblnd /usr/sbin/ko2iblnd-probe
>
>     but if I modify ko2iblnd.conf like this, then settings are loaded:
>
>     options ko2iblnd peer_credits=128 peer_credits_hiw=64 credits=1024
>     concurrent_sends=256 ntx=2048 map_on_demand=32 fmr_pool_size=2048
>     fmr_flush_trigger=512 fmr_cache=1 conns_per_peer=4
>
>     install ko2iblnd /usr/sbin/ko2iblnd-probe
>
>     Lnet tests show better behaviour but still I Would expect more
>     than this.
>     Is it possible to tune parameters in /etc/modprobe/ko2iblnd.conf
>     so that Mellanox ConnectX-3 will work more efficiently ?
>
>     [LNet Rates of servers]
>     [R] Avg: 2286     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 4572     RPC/s
>     [W] Avg: 3322     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 6643     RPC/s
>     [LNet Bandwidth of servers]
>     [R] Avg: 625.23   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 1250.46  MiB/s
>     [W] Avg: 1035.85  MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 2071.69  MiB/s
>     [LNet Rates of servers]
>     [R] Avg: 2286     RPC/s Min: 1        RPC/s Max: 4571     RPC/s
>     [W] Avg: 3321     RPC/s Min: 1        RPC/s Max: 6641     RPC/s
>     [LNet Bandwidth of servers]
>     [R] Avg: 625.55   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 1251.11  MiB/s
>     [W] Avg: 1035.05  MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 2070.11  MiB/s
>     [LNet Rates of servers]
>     [R] Avg: 2291     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 4581     RPC/s
>     [W] Avg: 3329     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 6657     RPC/s
>     [LNet Bandwidth of servers]
>     [R] Avg: 626.55   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 1253.11  MiB/s
>     [W] Avg: 1038.05  MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 2076.11  MiB/s
>     session is ended
>     ./lnet_test.sh: line 17: 23394 Terminated              lst stat
>     servers
>
>
>
>
>     On 8/19/17 4:20 AM, Arman Khalatyan wrote:
>
>         just minor comment,
>
>         you should push up performance of your nodes,they are not
>         running in the max cpu frequencies.Al tests might be
>         inconsistent. in order to get most of ib run following:
>
>         tuned-adm profile latency-performance
>
>         for more options use:
>
>         tuned-adm list
>
>          
>
>         It will be interesting to see the difference.
>
>          
>
>         Am 19.08.2017 3:57 vorm. schrieb "Riccardo Veraldi"
>         <Riccardo.Veraldi at cnaf.infn.it
>         <mailto:Riccardo.Veraldi at cnaf.infn.it>>:
>
>             Hello Keith and Dennis, these are the test I ran.
>
>               * obdfilter-survey, shows that I Can saturate disk
>                 performance, the NVMe/ZFS backend is performing very
>                 well and it is faster then my Infiniband network
>
>             *pool          alloc   free   read  write   read  write**
>             ------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
>             drpffb-ost01  3.31T  3.19T      3  35.7K  16.0K  7.03G
>               raidz1      3.31T  3.19T      3  35.7K  16.0K  7.03G
>                 nvme0n1       -      -      1  5.95K  7.99K  1.17G
>                 nvme1n1       -      -      0  6.01K      0  1.18G
>                 nvme2n1       -      -      0  5.93K      0  1.17G
>                 nvme3n1       -      -      0  5.88K      0  1.16G
>                 nvme4n1       -      -      1  5.95K  7.99K  1.17G
>                 nvme5n1       -      -      0  5.96K      0  1.17G
>             ------------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----*
>
>             this are the tests results
>
>             Fri Aug 18 16:54:48 PDT 2017 Obdfilter-survey for
>             case=disk from drp-tst-ffb01
>             ost  1 sz 10485760K rsz 1024K obj    1 thr    1
>             write*7633.08   *          SHORT rewrite
>             7558.78             SHORT read 3205.24 [3213.70, 3226.78]
>             ost  1 sz 10485760K rsz 1024K obj    1 thr    2
>             write*7996.89 *            SHORT rewrite
>             7903.42             SHORT read 5264.70             SHORT
>             ost  1 sz 10485760K rsz 1024K obj    2 thr    2 write
>             *7718.94*             SHORT rewrite 7977.84            
>             SHORT read 5802.17             SHORT
>
>               * Lnet self test, and here I see the problems. For
>                 reference 172.21.52.[83,84] are the two OSSes
>                 172.21.52.86 is the reader/writer. Here is the script
>                 that I ran
>
>             #!/bin/bash
>             export LST_SESSION=$$
>             lst new_session read_write
>             lst add_group servers 172.21.52.[83,84]@o2ib5
>             lst add_group readers 172.21.52.86 at o2ib5
>             <mailto:172.21.52.86 at o2ib5>
>             lst add_group writers 172.21.52.86 at o2ib5
>             <mailto:172.21.52.86 at o2ib5>
>             lst add_batch bulk_rw
>             lst add_test --batch bulk_rw --from readers --to servers \
>             brw read check=simple size=1M
>             lst add_test --batch bulk_rw --from writers --to servers \
>             brw write check=full size=1M
>             # start running
>             lst run bulk_rw
>             # display server stats for 30 seconds
>             lst stat servers & sleep 30; kill $!
>             # tear down
>             lst end_session
>
>              
>
>             here the results
>
>             SESSION: read_write FEATURES: 1 TIMEOUT: 300 FORCE: No
>             172.21.52.[83,84]@o2ib5 are added to session
>             172.21.52.86 at o2ib5 <mailto:172.21.52.86 at o2ib5> are added
>             to session
>             172.21.52.86 at o2ib5 <mailto:172.21.52.86 at o2ib5> are added
>             to session
>             Test was added successfully
>             Test was added successfully
>             bulk_rw is running now
>             [LNet Rates of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 1751     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 3502    
>             RPC/s
>             [W] Avg: 2525     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 5050    
>             RPC/s
>             [LNet Bandwidth of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 488.79   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 977.59  
>             MiB/s
>             [W] Avg: 773.99   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 1547.99 
>             MiB/s
>             [LNet Rates of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 1718     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 3435    
>             RPC/s
>             [W] Avg: 2479     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 4958    
>             RPC/s
>             [LNet Bandwidth of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 478.19   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 956.39  
>             MiB/s
>             [W] Avg: 761.74   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 1523.47 
>             MiB/s
>             [LNet Rates of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 1734     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 3467    
>             RPC/s
>             [W] Avg: 2506     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 5012    
>             RPC/s
>             [LNet Bandwidth of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 480.79   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 961.58  
>             MiB/s
>             [W] Avg: 772.49   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 1544.98 
>             MiB/s
>             [LNet Rates of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 1722     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 3444    
>             RPC/s
>             [W] Avg: 2486     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 4972    
>             RPC/s
>             [LNet Bandwidth of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 479.09   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 958.18  
>             MiB/s
>             [W] Avg: 764.19   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 1528.38 
>             MiB/s
>             [LNet Rates of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 1741     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 3482    
>             RPC/s
>             [W] Avg: 2513     RPC/s Min: 0        RPC/s Max: 5025    
>             RPC/s
>             [LNet Bandwidth of servers]
>             [R] Avg: 484.59   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 969.19  
>             MiB/s
>             [W] Avg: 771.94   MiB/s Min: 0.00     MiB/s Max: 1543.87 
>             MiB/s
>             session is ended
>             ./lnet_test.sh: line 17:  4940 Terminated              lst
>             stat servers
>
>             so looks like Lnet is really under performing  going at
>             least half and less than InfiniBand capabilities.
>             How can I find out what is causing this ?
>
>             running perf tools tests with infiniband tools I have good
>             results:
>
>              
>
>             ************************************
>             * Waiting for client to connect... *
>             ************************************
>
>             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                 Send BW Test
>              Dual-port       : OFF        Device         : mlx4_0
>              Number of qps   : 1        Transport type : IB
>              Connection type : RC        Using SRQ      : OFF
>              RX depth        : 512
>              CQ Moderation   : 100
>              Mtu             : 2048[B]
>              Link type       : IB
>              Max inline data : 0[B]
>              rdma_cm QPs     : OFF
>              Data ex. method : Ethernet
>             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              local address: LID 0x07 QPN 0x020f PSN 0xacc37a
>              remote address: LID 0x0a QPN 0x020f PSN 0x91a069
>             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              #bytes     #iterations    BW peak[MB/sec]    BW
>             average[MB/sec]   MsgRate[Mpps]
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1249.234000 !=
>             1326.000000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              2          1000             0.00               11.99     
>                    6.285330
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1314.910000 !=
>             1395.460000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              4          1000             0.00               28.26     
>                    7.409324
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1314.910000 !=
>             1460.207000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              8          1000             0.00               54.47     
>                    7.139164
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1314.910000 !=
>             1244.320000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              16         1000             0.00               113.13    
>                    7.413889
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1314.910000 !=
>             1460.207000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              32         1000             0.00               226.07    
>                    7.407811
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1469.703000 !=
>             1301.031000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              64         1000             0.00               452.12    
>                    7.407465
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1469.703000 !=
>             1301.031000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              128        1000             0.00               845.45    
>                    6.925918
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1469.703000 !=
>             1362.257000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              256        1000             0.00               1746.93   
>                    7.155406
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1469.703000 !=
>             1362.257000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              512        1000             0.00               2766.93   
>                    5.666682
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1296.714000 !=
>             1204.675000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              1024       1000             0.00               3516.26   
>                    3.600646
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1296.714000 !=
>             1325.535000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              2048       1000             0.00               3630.93   
>                    1.859035
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1296.714000 !=
>             1331.312000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              4096       1000             0.00               3702.39   
>                    0.947813
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1296.714000 !=
>             1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              8192       1000             0.00               3724.82   
>                    0.476777
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1384.902000 !=
>             1314.113000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              16384      1000             0.00               3731.21   
>                    0.238798
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1578.078000 !=
>             1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              32768      1000             0.00               3735.32   
>                    0.119530
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1578.078000 !=
>             1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              65536      1000             0.00               3736.98   
>                    0.059792
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1578.078000 !=
>             1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              131072     1000             0.00               3737.80   
>                    0.029902
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1578.078000 !=
>             1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              262144     1000             0.00               3738.43   
>                    0.014954
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1570.507000 !=
>             1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              524288     1000             0.00               3738.50   
>                    0.007477
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1457.019000 !=
>             1236.152000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              1048576    1000             0.00               3738.65   
>                    0.003739
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1411.597000 !=
>             1234.957000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              2097152    1000             0.00               3738.65   
>                    0.001869
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1369.828000 !=
>             1516.851000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              4194304    1000             0.00               3738.80   
>                    0.000935
>             Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1564.664000 !=
>             1247.574000. CPU Frequency is not max.
>              8388608    1000             0.00               3738.76   
>                    0.000467
>             ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>             RDMA modules are loaded
>
>             rpcrdma                90366  0
>             rdma_ucm               26837  0
>             ib_uverbs              51854  2 ib_ucm,rdma_ucm
>             rdma_cm                53755  5
>             rpcrdma,ko2iblnd,ib_iser,rdma_ucm,ib_isert
>             ib_cm                  47149  5
>             rdma_cm,ib_srp,ib_ucm,ib_srpt,ib_ipoib
>             iw_cm                  46022  1 rdma_cm
>             ib_core               210381  15
>             rdma_cm,ib_cm,iw_cm,rpcrdma,ko2iblnd,mlx4_ib,ib_srp,ib_ucm,ib_iser,ib_srpt,ib_umad,ib_uverbs,rdma_ucm,ib_ipoib,ib_isert
>             sunrpc                334343  17
>             nfs,nfsd,rpcsec_gss_krb5,auth_rpcgss,lockd,nfsv4,rpcrdma,nfs_acl
>
>             I do not know where to look to have Lnet performing
>             faster. I am running my ib0 interface in connected mode
>             with 65520 MTU size.
>
>             Any hint will be much appreciated
>
>             thank you
>
>             Rick
>
>              
>
>              
>
>              
>
>             On 8/18/17 9:05 AM, Mannthey, Keith wrote:
>
>                 I would suggest you a few other tests to help isolate where the issue might be.  
>
>                  
>
>                 1. What is the single thread "DD" write speed?
>
>                  
>
>                 2. Lnet_selfttest:  Please see " Chapter 28. Testing Lustre Network Performance (LNet Self-Test)" in the Lustre manual if this is a new test for you. 
>
>                 This will help show how much Lnet bandwith you have from your single client.  There are tunable in the lnet later that can affect things.  Which QRD HCA are you using?
>
>                  
>
>                 3. OBDFilter_survey :  Please see " 29.3. Testing OST Performance (obdfilter-survey)" in the Lustre manual.  This test will help demonstrate what the backed NVMe/ZFS setup can do at the OBD layer in Lustre.  
>
>                  
>
>                 Thanks,
>
>                  Keith 
>
>                 -----Original Message-----
>
>                 From: lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Riccardo Veraldi
>
>                 Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 10:48 PM
>
>                 To: Dennis Nelson <dnelson at ddn.com> <mailto:dnelson at ddn.com>; lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
>                 <mailto:lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org>
>
>                 Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre poor performance
>
>                  
>
>                 this is my lustre.conf
>
>                  
>
>                 [drp-tst-ffb01:~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/lustre.conf options lnet networks=o2ib5(ib0),tcp5(enp1s0f0)
>
>                  
>
>                 data transfer is over infiniband
>
>                  
>
>                 ib0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 65520
>
>                         inet 172.21.52.83  netmask 255.255.252.0  broadcast 172.21.55.255
>
>                  
>
>                  
>
>                 On 8/17/17 10:45 PM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
>
>                     On 8/17/17 9:22 PM, Dennis Nelson wrote:
>
>                         It appears that you are running iozone on a single client?  What kind of network is tcp5?  Have you looked at the network to make sure it is not the bottleneck?
>
>                          
>
>                     yes the data transfer is on ib0 interface and I did a memory to memory 
>
>                     test through InfiniBand QDR  resulting in 3.7GB/sec.
>
>                     tcp is used to connect to the MDS. It is tcp5 to differentiate it from 
>
>                     my other many Lustre clusters. I could have called it tcp but it does 
>
>                     not make any difference performance wise.
>
>                     I ran the test from one single node yes, I ran the same test also 
>
>                     locally on a zpool identical to the one on the Lustre OSS.
>
>                      Ihave 4 identical servers each of them with the aame nvme disks:
>
>                      
>
>                     server1: OSS - OST1 Lustre/ZFS  raidz1
>
>                      
>
>                     server2: OSS - OST2 Lustre/ZFS  raidz1
>
>                      
>
>                     server3: local ZFS raidz1
>
>                      
>
>                     server4: Lustre client
>
>                      
>
>                      
>
>                      
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