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<p class="MsoNormal">This issue is tracked under <a href="https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4533">
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<p class="MsoNormal">We submitted, but then abandoned a patch because of memory usage. Andreas proposed to do dynamic allocation of the obd_histogram buckets, but that work isn\u2019t completed yet. Although, it shouldn\u2019t be too hard. I just added the \u2018easy\u2019
label to LU-4533 <span style="font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">\u263a</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Cory<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org> on behalf of Patrick Farrell <paf@cray.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, July 3, 2017 at 8:29 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>, Reinoud Bokhorst <rbokhorst@astron.nl><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [lustre-discuss] Problem with raising osc.*.max_rpcs_in_flight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">It definitely is limited to 32 buckets. We've toyed with raising that limit (and Cray did so internally), but it does use some memory, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">So that's almost certainly the issue you're seeing, Reinoud. RPCs larger than the largest size appear as the largest size.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Patrick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org> on behalf of Dilger, Andreas <andreas.dilger@intel.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 2, 2017 3:45:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Reinoud Bokhorst<br>
<b>Cc:</b> lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [lustre-discuss] Problem with raising osc.*.max_rpcs_in_flight</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">It may also be that this histogram is limited to 32 buckets?<br>
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Cheers, Andreas<br>
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> On Jun 30, 2017, at 03:03, Reinoud Bokhorst <rbokhorst@astron.nl> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi all,<br>
> <br>
> I have a problem with raising the osc.*.max_rpcs_in_flight client<br>
> setting on our Lustre 2.7.0. I am trying the increase the setting from<br>
> 32 to 64 but according to osc.*.rpc_stats it isn't being used. The<br>
> statistics still stop at 31 rpcs with high write request numbers, e.g.<br>
> <br>
> read write<br>
> rpcs in flight rpcs % cum % | rpcs % cum %<br>
> 0: 0 0 0 | 0 0 0<br>
> 1: 7293 38 38 | 2231 16 16<br>
> 2: 3872 20 59 | 1196 8 25<br>
> 3: 1851 9 69 | 935 6 31<br>
> --SNIP--<br>
> 28: 0 0 100 | 89 0 87<br>
> 29: 0 0 100 | 90 0 87<br>
> 30: 0 0 100 | 94 0 88<br>
> 31: 0 0 100 | 1573 11 100<br>
> <br>
> I have modified some ko2iblnd driver parameters in an attempt to get it<br>
> working:<br>
> <br>
> options ko2iblnd peer_credits=128 peer_credits_hiw=128 credits=2048<br>
> concurrent_sends=256 ntx=2048 map_on_demand=32 fmr_pool_size=2048<br>
> fmr_flush_trigger=512 fmr_cache=1<br>
> <br>
> Specifically I raised peer_credits_hiw to 128 as I've understood that it<br>
> must be twice the value of max_rpcs_in_flight. Checking the module<br>
> parameters that were actually loaded, I noticed that it was set to 127.<br>
> So apparently it must be smaller than peers_credits. After noticing this<br>
> I tried setting max_rpcs_in_flight to 60 but that didn't help either.<br>
> Are there any other parameters affecting the max rpcs? Do all settings<br>
> have to be powers of 2?<br>
> <br>
> Related question; documentation on the driver parameters and how it all<br>
> hangs together is rather scarce on the internet. Does anyone have some<br>
> good pointers?<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Reinoud Bokhorst<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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