[linux-lvm] Performance tunning on LVM2

Fri Jun 6 15:03:51 UTC 2008

A (linear) volume group made of two physical volumes consists of one PV
followed by the other, rather like a "Raid-Linear". If you size the
origin logical volume right, you can get one LV (the origin) to fall on one
disk, and force the snapshot to land on the other disk. This eliminates
back-and-forth seeking to the COW. Whether it solves your problem will
depend on how smart the driver is about the read-before-write activity on
the origin volume.

Other members of the list may have more experience on this. Comments?

Larry

On 6/6/08, Antony MARTINEAU <Antony.MARTINEAU at lippi.fr> wrote:
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> The volume group vg0 is the raid0 of two disk (SAS 15000rpm 300G0)
> I have only this raid on the server
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> But i don't understand, imagine i make a volume group  ou of this raid0. It
> is no possible to snapshot the original volume, am i wrong?
>
> If i make a new VG on another disks, For exemple /dev/vg1/
> LVM don't permit to store a snaphot on a different VG than the origin
> volum.
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> for exemple /dev/vg0/test cant be snapshoting on /dev/vg1/test.snap
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> LV test and LV test.snap must be on the same volume, am i wrong ???? so it
> is impossible to store snapshot on another disk....
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>   De : "Larry Dickson" <ldickson at cuttedge.com> Pour : "LVM general
> discussion and development" <linux-lvm at redhat.com> Date: 06/06/2008 16:19 Objet
> : Re: [linux-lvm] Performance tunning on LVM2
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> This looks like the result of excessive seeking. Are origin volume and
> snapshot both on the same physical drive? Is it possible to make a volume
> group out of two drives, and arrange things so that origin volume and
> snapshot are hitting different disks?
>
> Larry Dickson
> Cutting Edge Networked Storage
>
> On 6/6/08, *Antony MARTINEAU* <*Antony.MARTINEAU at lippi.fr*<Antony.MARTINEAU at lippi.fr>>
> wrote:
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> Hello,
> My configuration:
> Server DELL 2860 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU  X3230 @ 2.66GHz (Quad Core)
> 8GB of  memory
> 2 x SAS 15000 300G0 RAID 0 hardware
> SLES 10 SP2
> Kernel 2.6.16.60-0.21-xen
>
> i have one volume group vg0 ( whith one PV, the two disks in raid0) whith
> many lvm
> I am very surprise about LVM2 performance when a snapshot is done.
> Write speed on the Original volume is very bad when a snaphot is active...
>
> For exemple:
> *
> Speed on /dev/vg0/test when there is NO snapshot :*
>
> suse2:~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg0/test bs=2M count=400
> 400+0 records in
> 400+0 records out
> 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 6.42741 seconds, 131 MB/s
> *
> Speed on /dev/vg0/test when there is one snapshot of this original volume :
> *
>
> suse2:~ # lvremove --force /dev/vg0/test3.snap
>  Logical volume "test3.snap" successfully removed
> suse2:~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg0/test bs=2M count=400
> 400+0 records in
> 400+0 records out
> 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 6.42741 seconds, 131 MB/s
> suse2:~ # lvcreate -s -L1G -ntest.snap /dev/vg0/test
>  Logical volume "test.snap" created
> suse2:~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg0/test bs=2M count=400
> 400+0 records in
> 400+0 records out
> 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 204.862 seconds, 4.1 MB/s
>
> *
> Speed on /dev/vg0/test when there is 2 snapshots of this original volume :
> *
>
> suse2:~ # lvcreate -s -L1G -ntest1.snap /dev/vg0/test
>  Logical volume "test1.snap" created
> suse2:~ # lvcreate -s -L1G -ntest2.snap /dev/vg0/test
>  Logical volume "test2.snap" created
> suse2:~ # lvremove /dev/vg0/test2.snap
> Do you really want to remove active logical volume "test2.snap"? [y/n]: y
>  Logical volume "test2.snap" successfully removed
> suse2:~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg0/test bs=2M count=400
> 400+0 records in
> 400+0 records out
> 838860800 bytes (839 MB) copied, 270.928 seconds, 3.1 MB/s
>
>
> Do you know  some elements about tunning performance?,?
>
> Performances are disastrous when a snaphot is active
> Could you give your speed result? and your amelioration??
>
> ps:Results are the same whithout Kernel Xen and whith a kernel more recent
> (*2.6.24.2* <http://2.6.24.2/>)  Cordialement,
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