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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] domU is causing misaligned disk writes
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On Tuesday, 20 April 2010 at 13:00, Tracy Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:49:55AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen spake thusly:
> > Are you using filesystems on normal partitions, or LVM in the domU?
> > I'm pretty sure this is a domU partitioning problem.
>
> Also: What changes in the view of the partitioning between domU and
> dom0? Wouldn't a partitioning error manifest itself in tests in the
> dom0 as well as in the domU?
>
> BTW: The dd from the last time in my last email finally finished:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xvdg1 bs=4096 count=3000000
> 3000000+0 records in
> 3000000+0 records out
> 12288000000 bytes (12 GB) copied, 734.714 seconds, 16.7 MB/s
>
> If I run that very same dd as above (the last test in my previous
> email) with the same partition setup again but this time from the
> dom0:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/etherd/e6.1 bs=4096 count=3000000
> 3000000+0 records in
> 3000000+0 records out
> 12288000000 bytes (12 GB) copied, 107.352 seconds, 114 MB/s
>
> # /sbin/sfdisk -d /dev/etherd/e6.1
> # partition table of /dev/etherd/e6.1
> unit: sectors
>
> /dev/etherd/e6.1p1 : start= 64, size=566226926, Id=83
> /dev/etherd/e6.1p2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
> /dev/etherd/e6.1p3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
> /dev/etherd/e6.1p4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
>
> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz
> avgqu-sz await svctm %util
> sda 0.00 17350.80 0.60 275.60 22.40 72540.00
> 525.43 97.94 344.01 3.62 100.02
> sdb 0.00 17374.80 1.20 256.00 28.00 74848.00
> 582.24 136.20 527.72 3.89 100.02

You could also be limited by the size of the block request ring (I
believe the ring is normally only one page) -- the ring needs to be
large enough to handle the bandwidth delay product, and AoE means the
delay is probably higher than normal. Do you get better performance
against a local partition?
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