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 From: rdo-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:rdo-list-bounces@redhat.com] On
 Behalf Of Dmitry Makovey
 Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 1:10 AM
 To: rdo-list(a)redhat.com
 Subject: [Rdo-list] cinder speed (slow nova?)
 
 Hi everybody,
 
 using RDO IceHouse packages I've set up an infrastructure atop of
 RHEL6.6 and am seeing a very unpleasant performance for the storage.
 
 I've done some testing and here's what I get from the same storage: but
 different access points:
 
 cinder-volume # dd if=/dev/zero of=baloon bs=1048576 count=200
 200+0 records in
 200+0 records out
 209715200 bytes (210 MB) copied, 0.162997 s, 1.3 GB/s 
You are testing the performance with the cache. Use direct IO, to bypass it.
Y.
 
 nova-compute # dd if=/dev/zero of=baloon bs=1048576 count=200
 200+0 records in
 200+0 records out
 209715200 bytes (210 MB) copied, 0.167905 s, 1.2 GB/s
 
 instance # dd if=/dev/zero of=baloon bs=1048576 count=200
 200+0 records in
 200+0 records out
 209715200 bytes (210 MB) copied, 10.064 s, 20.8 MB/s
 
 A bit of explanation: in above scenario I have created LV on cinder-node, then
 mounted it locally and ran command for "cinder-volume". Created an iSCSI
 target, mounted it on nova-compute, and ran command there. Then, via cinder
 created storage volume, booted the OS off it, and ran test from within it...
 Results are just miserable. going from 1.2G/s down to 20M/s seems to be a big
 degradation. What should I look for? I have also tried running the same
 command within our RHEL KVM instance and got great performance.
 
 I have checked under /var/lib/nova/instances/* and libvirt.xml seems to
 indicate that virtio is being employed:
 
     <disk type="block" device="disk">
       <driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="none"/>
       <source
 dev="/dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.46.18:3260-iscsi-iqn.2010-
 10.org.openstack:volume-955b25eb-bb48-43c3-a14d-222c9e8c7019-lun-1"/>
       <target bus="virtio" dev="vda"/>
       <serial>955b25eb-bb48-43c3-a14d-222c9e8c7019</serial>
     </disk>
 
 guest used - is rhel-guest-image-6.6-20140926.0.x86_64.qcow2 downloaded off
 RH site.
 
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 Dmitry Makovey
 Web Systems Administrator
 Athabasca University
 (780) 675-6245
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