[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Integration of GPU with glusterfs

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:44 PM, Darrell Budic <budic at onholyground.com>
wrote:

> Sounds like a good option to look into, but I wouldn’t want it to take
> time & resources away from other, non-GPU based, methods of improving this.
> Mainly because I don’t have discrete GPUs in most of my systems. While I
> could add them to my main server cluster pretty easily, many of my clients
> are 1U or blade systems and have no real possibility of having a GPU added.
>

In 3.9.0 Xavi added support to use hardware extensions on CPU if available.
It uses special instructions if any of "x64", "sse", "avx" etc is
available. There is also a plan to do systematic encoding in future which
will be different from the current way of encoding. We need to check how
performance will change with that as well.


>
> It would also add physical resource requirements to future client deploys,
> requiring more than 1U for the server (most likely), and I’m not likely to
> want to do this if I’m trying to optimize for client density, especially
> with the cost of GPUs today.
>

> ------------------------------
> *From:* Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com>
> *Subject:* [Gluster-users] Integration of GPU with glusterfs
> *Date:* January 11, 2018 at 12:12:43 AM CST
> *To:* Gluster Users
> *Cc:* Gluster Devel
>
> Hi,
>
> We have been thinking of exploiting GPU capabilities to enhance
> performance of glusterfs. We would like to know others thoughts on this.
> In EC, we have been doing CPU intensive computations to encode and decode
> data before writing and reading. This requires a lot of CPU cycles and we
> have
> been observing 100% CPU usage on client side. Data healing will also have
> the same impact as it also needs to do read-decode-encode-write cycle.
> As most of the  modern servers comes with GPU feature, having glusterfs
> GPU ready might give us performance improvements.
> This is not only specific to EC volume, there are other features which
> will require a lot of computations and could use this capability; For
> Example:
> 1 - Encryption/Decryption
> 2 - Compression and de-duplication
> 3 - Hashing
> 4 - Any other? [Please add if you have something in mind]
>
> Before proceeding further we would like to have your inputs on this.
> Do you have any other use case (existing or future) which could perform
> better on GPU?
> Do you think that it is worth to integrate GPU with glusterfs? The effort
> to have this performance gain could be achieved by some other better ways.
> Any input on the way we should implement it.
>
> There is a gihub issue opened for this. Please provide your comment or
> reply to this mail.
>
> A - https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/388
>
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> Ashish
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Pranith
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