From: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
laurent cop <laurent.cop@gmail.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: LUKS2 - RAID0 - NVME : alignment issue
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 08:47:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cd7ddd8-6c3c-e420-fd1f-44912f24ca66@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1810181342200.19328@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>
On 18/10/2018 19:51, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018, laurent cop wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have trouble while in top of the stack :
>> mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/raid0luks2
>> /dev/mapper/raid0luks2 alignement is offset by 147456 bytes
>> This may result in very poor performance (re-) partitioning is suggested.
>> I have the same pb with mkfs.xfs
>
> Just ignore this warning. dm-integrity interleaves data and metadata and
> consequently data are not aligned on raid stripe boundary.
>
>> I am using following scheme:
>>
>> LUKS2 => created with cryptsetup -v luksFormat --type luks2 /dev/md127 --cipher aes-gcm-random --integrity aeae
>> RAID 0 => created with mdadm chunk=32
>> 3 Disks NVME => partition with gdisk (fist sector : 2048)
>>
>> I got this information with lsblk -t for each 3 disks, i got the same information.
>> nvmeXn1
>> -> NvmeXn1p1 ALIGN = 0
>> -> md127 ALIGN = 0
>> -> raid0luks2_dif ALIGN = 147456
>> -> raid0luks2 ALIGN = 147456
>> 1) How can I solve my alignment issue?
>>
>> 2) Is it normal to have low performances while writing with dd. I was
>> using LUKS previously and I got only one dev mapper. Now I got 2. Does
>> it have a big impact on performances?
>>
>> Kind regards.
>
> dm-integrity already slows down writes about 3 times. At this situation,
> trying to align accesses to raid stripe size doesn't make much sense.
Actually, I think that the alignment reported there does not make any
sense for dm-integrity (here is not a simple offset, data and metadata are interleaved,
there is a journal... Dm-integrity here behaves more like a filesystem - what a single
offset means?
Anyway, Mikulas disagrees with me to simple remove it :-)
> If you want to improve performance, you may try to put two dm-ingerity
> images directly on the SSDs and create raid-0 on the top of them. It may
> perform better, but you'll have to benchmark it with the workload you are
> optimizing for.
You can do this with LUKS2 authenticated encryption as well, but I am not sure
it is good idea - it will eat CPU time for encryption for each raid 0 member.
Milan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-19 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-12 11:56 LUKS2 - RAID0 - NVME : alignment issue laurent cop
2018-10-12 16:09 ` Ondrej Kozina
2018-10-18 17:51 ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-10-19 6:47 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2018-10-27 23:05 ` laurent cop
2018-11-04 16:33 ` Milan Broz
2018-10-18 18:43 ` Mike Snitzer
2018-10-19 6:43 ` Milan Broz
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