mirror_zfs/tests/zfs-tests/tests/perf/regression/sequential_reads.ksh
Stephen Blinick 8a2a9db8df OpenZFS 9076 - Adjust perf test concurrency settings
ZFS Performance test concurrency should be lowered for better latency

Work by Stephen Blinick.

Nightly performance runs typically consist of two levels of concurrency;
and both are fairly high.

Since the IO runs are to a ZFS filesystem, within a zpool, which is
based on some variable number of vdev's, the amount of IO driven to each
device is variable. Additionally, different device types (HDD vs SSD,
etc) can generally handle a different amount of concurrent IO before
saturating.

Nevertheless, in practice, it appears that most tests are well past the
concurrency saturation point and therefore both perform with the same
throughput, the maximum of the device. Because the queuedepth to the
device(s) is so high however, the latency is much higher than the best
possible at that throughput, and increases linearly with the increase in
concurrency.

This means that changes in code that impact latency during normal
operation (before saturation) may not be apparent when a large component
of the measured latency is from the IO sitting in a queue to be
serviced. Therefore, changing the concurrency settings is recommended

Authored by: Stephen Blinick <stephen.blinick@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <dinatale2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: John Wren Kennedy <jwk404@gmail.com>
Ported-by: John Wren Kennedy <jwk404@gmail.com>

OpenZFS-issue: https://www.illumos.org/issues/9076
OpenZFS-commit: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/562
Upstream bug: DLPX-45477
Closes #7302
2018-03-15 10:51:00 -07:00

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#!/bin/ksh
#
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#
#
# Copyright (c) 2015, 2016 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
#
#
# Description:
# Trigger fio runs using the sequential_reads job file. The number of runs and
# data collected is determined by the PERF_* variables. See do_fio_run for
# details about these variables.
#
# The files to read from are created prior to the first fio run, and used
# for all fio runs. The ARC is cleared with `zinject -a` prior to each run
# so reads will go to disk.
#
# Thread/Concurrency settings:
# PERF_NTHREADS defines the number of files created in the test filesystem,
# as well as the number of threads that will simultaneously drive IO to
# those files. The settings chosen are from measurements in the
# PerfAutoESX/ZFSPerfESX Environments, selected at concurrency levels that
# are at peak throughput but lowest latency. Higher concurrency introduces
# queue time latency and would reduce the impact of code-induced performance
# regressions.
#
. $STF_SUITE/include/libtest.shlib
. $STF_SUITE/tests/perf/perf.shlib
function cleanup
{
# kill fio and iostat
pkill ${fio##*/}
pkill ${iostat##*/}
log_must_busy zfs destroy $TESTFS
log_must_busy zpool destroy $PERFPOOL
}
trap "log_fail \"Measure IO stats during random read load\"" SIGTERM
log_assert "Measure IO stats during sequential read load"
log_onexit cleanup
export TESTFS=$PERFPOOL/testfs
recreate_perfpool
log_must zfs create $PERF_FS_OPTS $TESTFS
# Aim to fill the pool to 50% capacity while accounting for a 3x compressratio.
export TOTAL_SIZE=$(($(get_prop avail $TESTFS) * 3 / 2))
# Variables for use by fio.
if [[ -n $PERF_REGRESSION_WEEKLY ]]; then
export PERF_RUNTIME=${PERF_RUNTIME:-$PERF_RUNTIME_WEEKLY}
export PERF_RUNTYPE=${PERF_RUNTYPE:-'weekly'}
export PERF_NTHREADS=${PERF_NTHREADS:-'8 16 32 64'}
export PERF_SYNC_TYPES=${PERF_SYNC_TYPES:-'1'}
export PERF_IOSIZES=${PERF_IOSIZES:-'64k 128k 1m'}
elif [[ -n $PERF_REGRESSION_NIGHTLY ]]; then
export PERF_RUNTIME=${PERF_RUNTIME:-$PERF_RUNTIME_NIGHTLY}
export PERF_RUNTYPE=${PERF_RUNTYPE:-'nightly'}
export PERF_NTHREADS=${PERF_NTHREADS:-'8 16'}
export PERF_SYNC_TYPES=${PERF_SYNC_TYPES:-'1'}
export PERF_IOSIZES=${PERF_IOSIZES:-'128k 1m'}
fi
# Layout the files to be used by the read tests. Create as many files as the
# largest number of threads. An fio run with fewer threads will use a subset
# of the available files.
export NUMJOBS=$(get_max $PERF_NTHREADS)
export FILE_SIZE=$((TOTAL_SIZE / NUMJOBS))
log_must fio $FIO_SCRIPTS/mkfiles.fio
# Set up the scripts and output files that will log performance data.
lun_list=$(pool_to_lun_list $PERFPOOL)
log_note "Collecting backend IO stats with lun list $lun_list"
if is_linux; then
export collect_scripts=("zpool iostat -lpvyL $PERFPOOL 1" "zpool.iostat"
"$PERF_SCRIPTS/prefetch_io.sh $PERFPOOL 1" "prefetch" "vmstat 1"
"vmstat" "mpstat -P ALL 1" "mpstat" "iostat -dxyz 1" "iostat")
else
export collect_scripts=("$PERF_SCRIPTS/io.d $PERFPOOL $lun_list 1" "io"
"$PERF_SCRIPTS/prefetch_io.d $PERFPOOL 1" "prefetch" "vmstat 1" "vmstat"
"mpstat 1" "mpstat" "iostat -xcnz 1" "iostat")
fi
log_note "Sequential reads with $PERF_RUNTYPE settings"
do_fio_run sequential_reads.fio false true
log_pass "Measure IO stats during sequential read load"