[dm-devel] [Lsf] Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 03/30/2011 04:02 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 07:58 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 03/30/2011 01:09 AM, Shyam_Iyer at dell.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Let me back up here.. this has to be thought in not only the traditional Ethernet
>>   >  sense but also in a Data Centre Bridged environment. I shouldn't
>> have wandered
>>   >  into the multipath constructs..
>>>
>>> I think the statement on not going to the same LUN was a little erroneous. I meant
>>   >  different /dev/sdXs.. and hence different block I/O queues.
>>>
>>> Each I/O queue could be thought of as a bandwidth queue class being serviced through
>>   >  a corresponding network adapter's queue(assuming a multiqueue
>> capable adapter)
>>>
>>> Let us say /dev/sda(Through eth0) and /dev/sdb(eth1) are a cgroup bandwidth group
>>   >  corresponding to a weightage of 20% of the I/O bandwidth the user
>> has configured
>>   >  this weight thinking that this will correspond to say 200Mb of
>> bandwidth.
>>>
>>> Let us say the network bandwidth on the corresponding network queues corresponding
>>   >  was reduced by the DCB capable switch...
>>> We still need an SLA of 200Mb of I/O bandwidth but the underlying dynamics have changed.
>>>
>>> In such a scenario the option is to move I/O to a different bandwidth priority queue
>>   >  in the network adapter. This could be moving I/O to a new network
>> queue in eth0 or
>>   >  another queue in eth1 ..
>>>
>>> This requires mapping the block queue to the new network queue.
>>>
>>> One way of solving this is what is getting into the open-iscsi world i.e. creating
>>   >  a session tagged to the relevant DCB priority and thus the
>> session gets mapped
>>   >  to the relevant tc queue which ultimately maps to one of the
>> network adapters multiqueue..
>>>
>>> But when multipath fails over to the different session path then the DCB bandwidth
>>   >  priority will not move with it..
>>>
>>> Ok one could argue that is a user mistake to have configured bandwidth priorities
>>   >  differently but it may so happen that the bandwidth priority was
>> just dynamically
>>   >  changed by the switch for the particular queue.
>>>
>>> Although I gave an example of a DCB environment but we could definitely look at
>>   >  doing a 1:n map of block queues to network adapter queues for
>> non-DCB environments too..
>>>
>> That sounds quite convoluted enough to warrant it's own slot :-)
>>
>> No, seriously. I think it would be good to have a separate slot
>> discussing DCB (be it FCoE or iSCSI) and cgroups.
>> And how to best align these things.
>
> OK, I'll go for that ... Data Centre Bridging; experiences, technologies
> and needs ... something like that.  What about virtualisation and open
> vSwitch?
>
Hmm. Not qualified enough to talk about the latter; I was more 
envisioning the storage-related aspects here (multiqueue mapping, 
QoS classes etc). With virtualisation and open vSwitch we're more in
the network side of things; doubt open vSwitch can do DCB.
And even if it could, virtio certainly can't :-)

Cheers,

Hannes
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