Summary:
We occasionally get write stalls (>1s Write() calls) on HDD under read load. The following timers explain almost all of the stalls:
- perf_context.db_mutex_lock_nanos
- perf_context.db_condition_wait_nanos
- iostats_context.open_time
- iostats_context.allocate_time
- iostats_context.write_time
- iostats_context.range_sync_time
- iostats_context.logger_time
In my experiments each of these occasionally takes >1s on write path under some workload. There are rare cases when Write() takes long but none of these takes long.
Test Plan: Added code to our application to write the listed timings to log for slow writes. They usually add up to almost exactly the time Write() call took.
Reviewers: rven, yhchiang, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: march, dhruba, tnovak
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D39177
