Nux,
I use Ubuntu 16.04 with "none" scheduler and the latest kernel 4.15. Guest
is Ubuntu 18.04 with Noop scheduler for scsi-virtio and "none" for virtio.
Thanks.
пт, 17 мая 2019 г., 19:18 Nux! <nux@li.nux.ro>:
> Hi,
>
> What HV is that? CentOS? Are you using the right tuned profile? What about
> in the guest? Which IO scheduler?
>
> --
> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
>
> Nux!
> www.nux.ro
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ivan Kudryavtsev" <kudryavtsev_ia@bw-sw.com>
> > To: "users" <users@cloudstack.apache.org>
> > Sent: Friday, 17 May, 2019 10:13:50
> > Subject: Poor NVMe Performance with KVM
>
> > Hello, colleagues.
> >
> > Hope, someone could help me. I just deployed a new VM host with Intel
> P4500
> > local storage NVMe drive.
> >
> > From Hypervisor host I can get expected performance, 200K RIOPS, 3GBs
> with
> > FIO, write performance is also high as expected.
> >
> > I've created a new KVM VM Service offering with virtio-scsi controller
> > (tried virtio as well) and VM is deployed. Now I try to benchmark it with
> > FIO. Results are very strange:
> >
> > 1. Read/Write with large blocks (1M) shows expected performance (my
> limits
> > are R=1000/W=500 MBs).
> >
> > 2. Write with direct=0 leads to expected 50K IOPS, while write with
> > direct=1 leads to very moderate 2-3K IOPS.
> >
> > 3. Read with direct=0, direct=1 both lead to 3000 IOPS.
> >
> > During the benchmark I see VM IOWAIT=20%, while host IOWAIT is 0% which
> is
> > strange.
> >
> > So, basically, from inside VM my NVMe works very slow when small IOPS are
> > executed. From the host, it works great.
> >
> > I tried to mount the volume with NBD to /dev/nbd0 and benchmark. Read
> > performance is nice. Maybe someone managed to use NVME with KVM with
> small
> > IOPS?
> >
> > The filesystem is XFS, previously tried with EXT4 - results are the same.
> >
> > This is the part of VM XML definition generated by CloudStack:
> >
> > <devices>
> > <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm-spice</emulator>
> > <disk type='file' device='disk'>
> > <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none' discard='unmap'/>
> > <source
> > file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/6809dbd0-4a15-4014-9322-fe9010695934'/>
> > <backingStore type='file' index='1'>
> > <format type='raw'/>
> > <source
> > file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/ac43742c-3991-4be1-bff1-7617bf4fc6ef'/>
> > <backingStore/>
> > </backingStore>
> > <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
> > <iotune>
> > <read_bytes_sec>1048576000</read_bytes_sec>
> > <write_bytes_sec>524288000</write_bytes_sec>
> > <read_iops_sec>100000</read_iops_sec>
> > <write_iops_sec>50000</write_iops_sec>
> > </iotune>
> > <serial>6809dbd04a1540149322</serial>
> > <alias name='scsi0-0-0-0'/>
> > <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
> > </disk>
> > <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
> > <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
> > <backingStore/>
> > <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
> > <readonly/>
> > <alias name='ide0-1-0'/>
> > <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
> > </disk>
> > <controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi'>
> > <alias name='scsi0'/>
> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09'
> > function='0x0'/>
> > </controller>
> >
> > So, what I see now, is that it works slower than couple of two Samsung
> 960
> > PRO which is extremely strange.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > --
> > With best regards, Ivan Kudryavtsev
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