High latency from excessive SMB TRIM operations
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.5
- ONTAP 9.6
Issue
- Extremely high CIFS latency, particularly for "other" operations
- High number of
ioctl_fsctl_file_level_trim_opswith extremely high latency.
::*> statistics show-periodic -object smb2 -instance svmtest -counter ioctl_fsctl_file_level_trim_ops|ioctl_fsctl_file_level_trim_latency
cluster: smb2.svmtest: 10/19/2020 15:23:25
ioctl_fsctl_file_level ioctl_fsctl_file_level
trim trim
latency ops
---------------------- ----------------------
50854.31us 1385.47
52302.41us 1318.84
53776.76us 1484.94
55285.58us 1387.76
56934.23us 1323.12
- High CPU contention, denoted by the wafl msg latency.
- Values greater than 1ms, could indicate CPU contention
::*> statistics show-periodic -object wafl -counter avg_wafl_msg_latency -node node_1 -instance wafl
cluster1: wafl.wafl: 10/16/2020 18:25:28
avg_wafl
msg Complete Number of
latency Aggregation Constituents
-------- ----------- ------------
14.91ms n/a n/a
23.25ms n/a n/a
19.72ms n/a n/a
17.34ms n/a n/a
19.09ms n/a n/a
