7.9. Enabling Fast Path¶
Warning
This feature is currently experimental due to insufficient production usage statistics.
Fast path is a feature that may boost Virtuozzo Storage read performance if node I/O is a bottleneck. In previous versions of Virtuozzo Storage, performance could be limited by node I/O being handled in a single thread in user space. In the current version of Virtuozzo Storage, I/O is handled using multi-threading in kernel space, which eliminates unnecessary context switches and improves performance.
If node I/O is a bottleneck, enabling fast path may increase maximum node read performance up to 3 times in some cases.
Note
Typically, node I/O may be a bottleneck in clusters with cache on SSD or all-SSD setups.
Fast path is disabled by default. To enable it, add params='kdirect=pcs' to the storage cluster mount options in /etc/fstab, for example:
vstorage://c1ddd1c28 /vz fuse.vstorage defaults,params='kdirect=pcs' 0 0
and reboot the node.