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  1. Lustre
  2. LU-4367

unlink performance regression on lustre-2.5.52 client

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Critical
    • Lustre 2.7.0
    • Lustre 2.5.0
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    Description

      lustre-2.5.52 client (and maybe more old client as well) causes metadata performance (unlink files in the single shared directory) regression.
      Here is test results on lustre-2.5.52 clients and lustre-2.4.1 clients. lustre-2.5.52 is running on all servers.

      1 x MDS, 4 x OSS (32 x OST) and 16 clients(64 processs, 20000 files per process)

      lustre-2.4.1 client
      
      4.1-take2.log
      -- started at 12/09/2013 07:31:29 --
      
      mdtest-1.9.1 was launched with 64 total task(s) on 16 node(s)
      Command line used: /work/tools/bin/mdtest -d /lustre/dir.0 -n 20000 -F -i 3
      Path: /lustre
      FS: 1141.8 TiB   Used FS: 0.0%   Inodes: 50.0 Mi   Used Inodes: 0.0%
      
      64 tasks, 1280000 files
      
      SUMMARY: (of 3 iterations)
         Operation                      Max            Min           Mean        Std Dev
         ---------                      ---            ---           ----        -------
         File creation     :      58200.265      56783.559      57589.448        594.589
         File stat         :     123351.857     109571.584     114223.612       6455.043
         File read         :     109917.788      83891.903      99965.718      11472.968
         File removal      :      60825.889      59066.121      59782.774        754.599
         Tree creation     :       4048.556       1971.934       3082.293        853.878
         Tree removal      :         21.269         15.069         18.204          2.532
      
      -- finished at 12/09/2013 07:34:53 --
      
      lustre-2.5.5.2 client
      
      -- started at 12/09/2013 07:13:42 --
      
      mdtest-1.9.1 was launched with 64 total task(s) on 16 node(s)
      Command line used: /work/tools/bin/mdtest -d /lustre/dir.0 -n 20000 -F -i 3
      Path: /lustre
      FS: 1141.8 TiB   Used FS: 0.0%   Inodes: 50.0 Mi   Used Inodes: 0.0%
      
      64 tasks, 1280000 files
      
      SUMMARY: (of 3 iterations)
         Operation                      Max            Min           Mean        Std Dev
         ---------                      ---            ---           ----        -------
         File creation     :      58286.631      56689.423      57298.286        705.112
         File stat         :     127671.818     116429.261     121610.854       4631.684
         File read         :     173527.817     158205.242     166676.568       6359.445
         File removal      :      46818.194      45638.851      46118.111        506.151
         Tree creation     :       3844.458       2576.354       3393.050        578.560
         Tree removal      :         21.383         18.329         19.844          1.247
      
      -- finished at 12/09/2013 07:17:07 --
      

      46K ops/sec (lusre-2.5.52) vs 60K ops/sec (lustre-2.4.1). 25% performance drops on Lustre-2.5.52 compared to Lustre-2.4.1.

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        2. LU-4367.xlsx
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        3. debugfile
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              laisiyao Lai Siyao
              ihara Shuichi Ihara (Inactive)
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