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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">You may want to file a jira ticket if ko2iblnd-opa setting were being automatically used on your Mellanox setup. That is not expected.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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<sup>nd</sup> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Keith
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Horn<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 21, 2017 12:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@cnaf.infn.it>; Arman Khalatyan <arm2arm@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre poor performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Chris Horn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">lustre-discuss <<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org">lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org</a>> on behalf of Riccardo Veraldi <<a href="mailto:Riccardo.Veraldi@cnaf.infn.it">Riccardo.Veraldi@cnaf.infn.it</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 5:00 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Arman Khalatyan <<a href="mailto:arm2arm@gmail.com">arm2arm@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org">lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org">lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre poor performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I ran again my Lnet self test and this time adding --concurrency=16 I can use all of the IB bandwith (3.5GB/sec).<br>
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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<br>
the proper peer_credit settings to be loaded.<br>
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thanks to everyone for helping<br>
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Riccardo<br>
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On 8/19/17 8:54 AM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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I found out that ko2iblnd is not getting settings from /etc/modprobe/ko2iblnd.conf<br>
<tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">alias ko2iblnd-opa ko2iblnd</span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
<tt>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</tt><br>
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<tt>install ko2iblnd /usr/sbin/ko2iblnd-probe</tt><br>
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but if I modify ko2iblnd.conf like this, then settings are loaded:<br>
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<tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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</span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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<tt>install ko2iblnd /usr/sbin/ko2iblnd-probe</tt></span><br>
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Lnet tests show better behaviour but still I Would expect more than this.<br>
Is it possible to tune parameters in /etc/modprobe/ko2iblnd.conf so that Mellanox ConnectX-3 will work more efficiently ?<br>
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[LNet Rates of servers]<br>
[R] Avg: 2286 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 4572 RPC/s<br>
[W] Avg: 3322 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 6643 RPC/s<br>
[LNet Bandwidth of servers]<br>
[R] Avg: 625.23 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 1250.46 MiB/s <br>
[W] Avg: 1035.85 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 2071.69 MiB/s <br>
[LNet Rates of servers]<br>
[R] Avg: 2286 RPC/s Min: 1 RPC/s Max: 4571 RPC/s<br>
[W] Avg: 3321 RPC/s Min: 1 RPC/s Max: 6641 RPC/s<br>
[LNet Bandwidth of servers]<br>
[R] Avg: 625.55 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 1251.11 MiB/s <br>
[W] Avg: 1035.05 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 2070.11 MiB/s <br>
[LNet Rates of servers]<br>
[R] Avg: 2291 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 4581 RPC/s<br>
[W] Avg: 3329 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 6657 RPC/s<br>
[LNet Bandwidth of servers]<br>
[R] Avg: 626.55 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 1253.11 MiB/s <br>
[W] Avg: 1038.05 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 2076.11 MiB/s <br>
session is ended<br>
./lnet_test.sh: line 17: 23394 Terminated lst stat servers<br>
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On 8/19/17 4:20 AM, Arman Khalatyan wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">just minor comment, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">tuned-adm profile latency-performance<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">for more options use:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">tuned-adm list<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It will be interesting to see the difference.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Am 19.08.2017 3:57 vorm. schrieb "Riccardo Veraldi" <<a href="mailto:Riccardo.Veraldi@cnaf.infn.it">Riccardo.Veraldi@cnaf.infn.it</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hello Keith and Dennis, these are the test I ran.<o:p></o:p></p>
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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
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<p><tt><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">pool alloc free read write read write</span></b></tt><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
<tt>------------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----</tt><br>
<tt>drpffb-ost01 3.31T 3.19T 3 35.7K 16.0K 7.03G</tt><br>
<tt> raidz1 3.31T 3.19T 3 35.7K 16.0K 7.03G</tt><br>
<tt> nvme0n1 - - 1 5.95K 7.99K 1.17G</tt><br>
<tt> nvme1n1 - - 0 6.01K 0 1.18G</tt><br>
<tt> nvme2n1 - - 0 5.93K 0 1.17G</tt><br>
<tt> nvme3n1 - - 0 5.88K 0 1.16G</tt><br>
<tt> nvme4n1 - - 1 5.95K 7.99K 1.17G</tt><br>
<tt> nvme5n1 - - 0 5.96K 0 1.17G</tt><br>
<tt>------------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----</tt></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">this are the tests results<br>
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<tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Fri Aug 18 16:54:48 PDT 2017 Obdfilter-survey for case=disk from drp-tst-ffb01</span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
<tt>ost 1 sz 10485760K rsz 1024K obj 1 thr 1 write<b> 7633.08 </b> SHORT rewrite 7558.78 SHORT read 3205.24 [3213.70, 3226.78]
</tt><br>
<tt>ost 1 sz 10485760K rsz 1024K obj 1 thr 2 write<b> 7996.89 </b> SHORT rewrite 7903.42 SHORT read 5264.70 SHORT
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<tt>ost 1 sz 10485760K rsz 1024K obj 2 thr 2 write <b>7718.94</b> SHORT rewrite 7977.84 SHORT read 5802.17 SHORT
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
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
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<p><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">#!/bin/bash</span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
<tt>export LST_SESSION=$$</tt><br>
<tt>lst new_session read_write</tt><br>
<tt>lst add_group servers 172.21.52.[83,84]@o2ib5</tt><br>
<tt>lst add_group readers <a href="mailto:172.21.52.86@o2ib5">172.21.52.86@o2ib5</a></tt><br>
<tt>lst add_group writers <a href="mailto:172.21.52.86@o2ib5">172.21.52.86@o2ib5</a></tt><br>
<tt>lst add_batch bulk_rw</tt><br>
<tt>lst add_test --batch bulk_rw --from readers --to servers \</tt><br>
<tt>brw read check=simple size=1M</tt><br>
<tt>lst add_test --batch bulk_rw --from writers --to servers \</tt><br>
<tt>brw write check=full size=1M</tt><br>
<tt># start running</tt><br>
<tt>lst run bulk_rw</tt><br>
<tt># display server stats for 30 seconds</tt><br>
<tt>lst stat servers & sleep 30; kill $!</tt><br>
<tt># tear down</tt><br>
<tt>lst end_session</tt></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p>here the results<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">SESSION: read_write FEATURES: 1 TIMEOUT: 300 FORCE: No</span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
<tt>172.21.52.[83,84]@o2ib5 are added to session</tt><br>
<tt><a href="mailto:172.21.52.86@o2ib5">172.21.52.86@o2ib5</a> are added to session</tt><br>
<tt><a href="mailto:172.21.52.86@o2ib5">172.21.52.86@o2ib5</a> are added to session</tt><br>
<tt>Test was added successfully</tt><br>
<tt>Test was added successfully</tt><br>
<tt>bulk_rw is running now</tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Rates of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 1751 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 3502 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 2525 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 5050 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Bandwidth of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 488.79 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 977.59 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 773.99 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 1547.99 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Rates of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 1718 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 3435 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 2479 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 4958 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Bandwidth of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 478.19 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 956.39 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 761.74 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 1523.47 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Rates of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 1734 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 3467 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 2506 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 5012 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Bandwidth of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 480.79 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 961.58 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 772.49 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 1544.98 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Rates of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 1722 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 3444 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 2486 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 4972 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Bandwidth of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 479.09 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 958.18 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 764.19 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 1528.38 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Rates of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 1741 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 3482 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 2513 RPC/s Min: 0 RPC/s Max: 5025 RPC/s</tt><br>
<tt>[LNet Bandwidth of servers]</tt><br>
<tt>[R] Avg: 484.59 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 969.19 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>[W] Avg: 771.94 MiB/s Min: 0.00 MiB/s Max: 1543.87 MiB/s </tt><br>
<tt>session is ended</tt><br>
<tt>./lnet_test.sh: line 17: 4940 Terminated lst stat servers</tt></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so looks like Lnet is really under performing going at least half and less than InfiniBand capabilities.<br>
How can I find out what is causing this ? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>running perf tools tests with infiniband tools I have good results:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">************************************</span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
<tt>* Waiting for client to connect... *</tt><br>
<tt>************************************</tt><br>
<br>
<tt>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt><br>
<tt> Send BW Test</tt><br>
<tt> Dual-port : OFF Device : mlx4_0</tt><br>
<tt> Number of qps : 1 Transport type : IB</tt><br>
<tt> Connection type : RC Using SRQ : OFF</tt><br>
<tt> RX depth : 512</tt><br>
<tt> CQ Moderation : 100</tt><br>
<tt> Mtu : 2048[B]</tt><br>
<tt> Link type : IB</tt><br>
<tt> Max inline data : 0[B]</tt><br>
<tt> rdma_cm QPs : OFF</tt><br>
<tt> Data ex. method : Ethernet</tt><br>
<tt>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt><br>
<tt> local address: LID 0x07 QPN 0x020f PSN 0xacc37a</tt><br>
<tt> remote address: LID 0x0a QPN 0x020f PSN 0x91a069</tt><br>
<tt>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt><br>
<tt> #bytes #iterations BW peak[MB/sec] BW average[MB/sec] MsgRate[Mpps]</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1249.234000 != 1326.000000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 2 1000 0.00 11.99 6.285330</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1314.910000 != 1395.460000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 4 1000 0.00 28.26 7.409324</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1314.910000 != 1460.207000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 8 1000 0.00 54.47 7.139164</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1314.910000 != 1244.320000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 16 1000 0.00 113.13 7.413889</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1314.910000 != 1460.207000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 32 1000 0.00 226.07 7.407811</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1469.703000 != 1301.031000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 64 1000 0.00 452.12 7.407465</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1469.703000 != 1301.031000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 128 1000 0.00 845.45 6.925918</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1469.703000 != 1362.257000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 256 1000 0.00 1746.93 7.155406</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1469.703000 != 1362.257000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 512 1000 0.00 2766.93 5.666682</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1296.714000 != 1204.675000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 1024 1000 0.00 3516.26 3.600646</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1296.714000 != 1325.535000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 2048 1000 0.00 3630.93 1.859035</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1296.714000 != 1331.312000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 4096 1000 0.00 3702.39 0.947813</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1296.714000 != 1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 8192 1000 0.00 3724.82 0.476777</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1384.902000 != 1314.113000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 16384 1000 0.00 3731.21 0.238798</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1578.078000 != 1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 32768 1000 0.00 3735.32 0.119530</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1578.078000 != 1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 65536 1000 0.00 3736.98 0.059792</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1578.078000 != 1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 131072 1000 0.00 3737.80 0.029902</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1578.078000 != 1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 262144 1000 0.00 3738.43 0.014954</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1570.507000 != 1200.027000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 524288 1000 0.00 3738.50 0.007477</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1457.019000 != 1236.152000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 1048576 1000 0.00 3738.65 0.003739</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1411.597000 != 1234.957000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 2097152 1000 0.00 3738.65 0.001869</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1369.828000 != 1516.851000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 4194304 1000 0.00 3738.80 0.000935</tt><br>
<tt>Conflicting CPU frequency values detected: 1564.664000 != 1247.574000. CPU Frequency is not max.</tt><br>
<tt> 8388608 1000 0.00 3738.76 0.000467</tt><br>
<tt>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">RDMA modules are loaded</span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
<br>
<tt>rpcrdma 90366 0 </tt><br>
<tt>rdma_ucm 26837 0 </tt><br>
<tt>ib_uverbs 51854 2 ib_ucm,rdma_ucm</tt><br>
<tt>rdma_cm 53755 5 rpcrdma,ko2iblnd,ib_iser,rdma_ucm,ib_isert</tt><br>
<tt>ib_cm 47149 5 rdma_cm,ib_srp,ib_ucm,ib_srpt,ib_ipoib</tt><br>
<tt>iw_cm 46022 1 rdma_cm</tt><br>
<tt>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</tt><br>
<tt>sunrpc 334343 17 nfs,nfsd,rpcsec_gss_krb5,auth_rpcgss,lockd,nfsv4,rpcrdma,nfs_acl</tt></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Any hint will be much appreciated<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>thank you<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Rick<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 8/18/17 9:05 AM, Mannthey, Keith wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>I would suggest you a few other tests to help isolate where the issue might be. <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>1. What is the single thread "DD" write speed?<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>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. <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>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?<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>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. <o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> Keith <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>From: lustre-discuss [<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org</a>] On Behalf Of Riccardo Veraldi<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 10:48 PM<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>To: Dennis Nelson <a href="mailto:dnelson@ddn.com" target="_blank"><dnelson@ddn.com></a>; <a href="mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre poor performance<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>this is my lustre.conf<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>[drp-tst-ffb01:~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/lustre.conf options lnet networks=o2ib5(ib0),tcp5(enp1s0f0)<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>data transfer is over infiniband<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>ib0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 65520<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> inet 172.21.52.83 netmask 255.255.252.0 broadcast 172.21.55.255<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>On 8/17/17 10:45 PM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>On 8/17/17 9:22 PM, Dennis Nelson wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>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?<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>yes the data transfer is on ib0 interface and I did a memory to memory <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>test through InfiniBand QDR resulting in 3.7GB/sec.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>tcp is used to connect to the MDS. It is tcp5 to differentiate it from <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>my other many Lustre clusters. I could have called it tcp but it does <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>not make any difference performance wise.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>I ran the test from one single node yes, I ran the same test also <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>locally on a zpool identical to the one on the Lustre OSS.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> Ihave 4 identical servers each of them with the aame nvme disks:<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>server1: OSS - OST1 Lustre/ZFS raidz1<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>server2: OSS - OST2 Lustre/ZFS raidz1<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>server3: local ZFS raidz1<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>server4: Lustre client<o:p></o:p></pre>
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