[Gluster-users] Rebalance improvement.

[Susant Palai]

Centos Users can add the following repo and install the build from the
master branch to try out the feature. [Testing purpose only, not ready for
consumption in production env.]

[gluster-nightly-master] baseurl=
http://artifacts.ci.centos.org/gluster/nightly/master/7/x86_64/ gpgcheck=0
keepalive=1 enabled=1 repo_gpgcheck = 0 name=Gluster Nightly builds (master
branch)

A summary of perf numbers from our test lab :

DirSize - 1Million Old New %diff Depth - 100 (Run 1) 353 74 +377% Depth -
100 (Run 2) 348 72 +377~% Depth - 50 246 122 +100% Depth - 3 174 114 +52%

Susant


On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 11:16 AM Susant Palai <spalai at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>     Recently, we have pushed some performance improvements for Rebalance
> Crawl which used to consume a significant amount of time, out of the entire
> rebalance process.
>
>
> The patch [1] is recently merged in upstream and may land as an
> experimental feature in the upcoming upstream release.
>
> The improvement currently works only for pure-distribute Volume. (which
> can be expanded).
>
>
> Things to look forward to in future :
>  - Parallel Crawl in Rebalance
>  - Global Layout
>
> Once these improvements are in place, we would be able to reduce the
> overall rebalance time by a significant time.
>
> Would request our community to try out the feature and give us feedback.
>
> More information regarding the same will follow.
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Susant Palai
>
>
> [1] https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/24443/
>
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