Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: xfs: does mkfs.xfs require fancy switches to get decent performance? (was Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync?) | From | Howard Chu <> | Date | Tue, 12 May 2015 14:26:07 +0100 |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > On 05/12/2015 02:03 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> I'd call system with 65 tasks doing heavy fsync load at the some time >> "embarrassingly misconfigured" :-). It is nice if your filesystem can >> stay fast in that case, but... > > Well, Tux3 wins the fsync race now whether it is 1 task, 64 tasks or > 10,000 tasks. At the high end, maybe it is just a curiosity, or maybe > it tells us something about how Tux3 is will scale on the big machines > that XFS currently lays claim to. And Java programmers are busy doing > all kinds of wild and crazy things with lots of tasks. Java almost > makes them do it. If they need their data durable then they can easily > create loads like my test case. > > Suppose you have a web server meant to serve 10,000 transactions > simultaneously and it needs to survive crashes without losing client > state. How will you do it? You could install an expensive, finicky > database, or you could write some Java code that happens to work well > because Linux has a scheduler and a filesystem that can handle it. > Oh wait, we don't have the second one yet, but maybe we soon will. > > I will not claim that stupidly fast and scalable fsync is the main > reason that somebody should want Tux3, however, the lack of a high > performance fsync was in fact used as a means of spreading FUD about > Tux3, so I had some fun going way beyond the call of duty to answer > that. By the way, I am still waiting for the original source of the > FUD to concede the point politely, but maybe he is waiting for the > code to land, which it still has not as of today, so I guess that is > fair. Note that it would have landed quite some time ago if Tux3 was > already merged.
Well, stupidly fast and scalable fsync sounds wonderful to me; it's the primary pain point in LMDB write performance now.
http://symas.com/mdb/ondisk/
I look forward to testing Tux3 when usable code shows up in a public repo.
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