Hi Loic:
it is a laptop that I wiped out and reinstalled from
scratch to use
it for the duration of the test with no interference. Are laptops somehow immune to the
problem?
Laptops are not immune to cacheline contention, but in my experience larger systems, with
more cpus creates a better environment to see the contention. With more threads of
execution (OSDs?) running on more cpus, the cacheline contention and tugging shows up much
better.
I was under the impression that those larger environments are similar to what Ceph is
running in today where you're trying to minimize that contention.
We can try it first on your laptop if that's all you have, and we'll see what it
shows us. (But do try CentOS-8 instead of Debian).
Do you want to go that route first?
Jore