[Gluster-users] Direct I/O access performance with GLFS2 rc8

[Hideo Umemura(Max-T)]

Hello,

I did simple tryout for GLFS 2.0rc8 on CentOS Linux with 2x Dual Core
Xeon 4GB RAM.
My benchmarks, it is high load single stream access on loopback glfs
mount on a single server with high performance FC RAID.
Target volume is XFS formatted. Local benchmark results are as
follows.(benchmark command is XDD command)

Buf I/O
READ = about 660MB/s
WRITE = about 480MB/s

Direct I/O
4MB block read = about 540MB/s
4MB block write = about 350MB/s

The results for GLFS loopback mount volume are as follows.

Buf I/O
READ = about 460MB/s
WRITE = about 330MB/s

Direct I/O
4MB block read = about 160MB/s
4MB block write = about 100MB/s

Buf I/O with GLFS is good results with small block size.
But The large block size access is slows down.
Direct I/O is poor performance without follow the block size.
Attached please find a detailed information text.

I want to use glfs with professional video applications on IB networks.
Video applications are using storages with large uncompress image
sequences and/or uncompress large movie files.(up to 2K/4K)
The block size control and direct I/O performance are important for them.

Please advise me about options/configurations for improve the
performance, and theory for improve performance by block size on GLFS.

My best regards,

hideo
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