[DRBD-user] c-min-rate priority

Ben RUBSON ben.rubson at gmail.com
Tue May 26 13:16:53 CEST 2015

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


RAID controller is OK yes.

Here is a 4 steps example of the issue :



### 1 - initial state :

Source :
- sdb read MB/s      : 0
- sdb write MB/s     : 0
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 0
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 0
Target :
- sdb read MB/s      : 0
- sdb write MB/s     : 0
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 0
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 0



### 2 - dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile :

Source :
- sdb read MB/s      : 0
- sdb write MB/s     : 670
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 1
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 670
Target :
- sdb read MB/s      : 0
- sdb write MB/s     : 670
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 670
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 1



### 3 - disable the link between the 2 nodes :

Source :
- sdb read MB/s      : 0
- sdb write MB/s     : 670
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 0
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 0
Target :
- sdb read MB/s      : 0
- sdb write MB/s     : 0
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 0
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 0



### 4 - re-enable the link between the 2 nodes :

Source :
- sdb read MB/s      : ~20
- sdb write MB/s     : ~670
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 1
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 670
Target :
- sdb read MB/s      : 0
- sdb write MB/s     : 670
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 670
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 1
DRBD resource :
 1: cs:SyncTarget ro:Secondary/Primary ds:Inconsistent/UpToDate C r-----
    ns:62950732 nr:1143320132 dw:1206271712 dr:1379744185 al:9869 bm:6499
lo:2 pe:681 ua:1 ap:0 ep:1 wo:d oos:11883000
    [>...................] sync'ed:  6.9% (11604/12448)M
    finish: 0:34:22 speed: 5,756 (6,568) want: 696,320 K/sec



### values I would have expected in step 4 :

Source :
- sdb read MB/s      : ~400 (because of c-min-rate 400M)
- sdb write MB/s     : ~370
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 1
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 670
Target :
- sdb read MB/s      : 0
- sdb write MB/s     : 670
- eth1 incoming MB/s : 670
- eth1 outgoing MB/s : 1

Why resync is totally ignored and application (dd here in the example)
still consumes all available IOs / bandwidth ?



Thank you,

Ben



2015-05-25 16:50 GMT+02:00 A.Rubio <aurusa at etsii.upv.es>:

> Cache settings an I/O in RAID controller is optimal ??? Write-back,
> write-through, cache enablad, I/O direct, ...
>
> El 25/05/15 a las 11:50, Ben RUBSON escribió:
>
>> The link between nodes is a 10Gb/s link.
>> The DRBD resource is a RAID-10 array which is able to resync at up to
>> 800M (as you can see I have lowered it to 680M in my configuration file).
>>
>> The "issue" here seems to be a prioritization "issue" between application
>> IOs and resync IOs.
>> Perhaps I miss-configured something ?
>> Goal is to have resync rate up to 680M, with a minimum of 400M, even if
>> there are application IOs.
>> This in order to be sure to complete the resync even if there are a lot
>> of write IOs from the application.
>>
>> With my simple test below, this is not the case, dd still writes at its
>> best throughput, lowering resync rate which can’t reach 400M at all.
>>
>> Thank you !
>>
>>  Le 25 mai 2015 à 11:18, A.Rubio <aurusa at etsii.upv.es> a écrit :
>>>
>>> the link between nodes is ???  1Gb/s ??? , 10Gb/s ??? ...
>>>
>>> the Hard Disks are ??? SATA 7200rpm ???, 10000rpm ???, SAS ???,
>>> SSD ???...
>>>
>>> 400M to 680M with a 10Gb/s link and SAS 15.000 rpm is OK but less ...
>>>
>>>  Le 12 avr. 2014 à 17:23, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Let's assume the following configuration :
>>>> disk {
>>>>     c-plan-ahead 0;
>>>>     resync-rate 680M;
>>>>     c-min-rate 400M;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Both nodes are uptodate, and on the primary, I have a test IO burst
>>>> running, using dd.
>>>>
>>>> I then cut replication link for a few minutes so that secondary node
>>>> will be several GB behind primary node.
>>>>
>>>> I then re-enable replication link.
>>>> What I expect here according to the configuration is that secondary
>>>> node will fetch missing GB at a 400 MB/s throughput.
>>>> DRBD should then prefer resync IOs over application (dd here) IOs.
>>>>
>>>> However, it does not seems to work.
>>>> dd still writes at its best throughput, meanwhile reads are made from
>>>> the primary disk between 30 and 60 MB/s to complete the resync.
>>>> Of course this is not the expected behaviour.
>>>>
>>>> Did I miss something ?
>>>
>>>
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