IO Pressure Stall

Andrii.B

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Anyone can me explain why the IO pressure stall always display average 0.1% on ZFS on 4x NVMe, but LVM on hardware raid with SSD usually display zero for all time, except rare bursts when VMs is cloning?
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Anyone can me explain why the IO pressure stall always display average 0.1% on ZFS on 4x NVMe, but LVM on hardware raid with SSD usually display zero for all time,

Perhaps because ZFS does write much more often than LVM.

That graph shows an average below 0.15 percent. Do you feel that's a problem?
 
I don't feel it, of course. But it's strange, because it's there is less writes on ZFS and iostat show the following:
  • LVM: AVG 1000 r/s, 25 MB/s, 2 %rrqm, 0.4 r_await, 500 w/s, 7 MB/s, 2 %wrqm, 0.05 w_await, 10 %util
  • ZFS: AVG 100 r/s, 1.2 MB/s, 0 %rrqm, 0.1 r_await, 150 w/s, 7 MB/s, 0 %wrqm, 0.2 w_await, 2 %util
Simple SSD in HW Raid is much more load than NVMe in ZFS, but no IO Pressure Stall on LVM. What does it mean?