From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Andrew Davidoff <davidoff@qedmf.net>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make threads access the same files?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:08:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130628140856.GO24293@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJLXCZTeqg6DTeRcMK0asRoZ7EShD8Od+Y05R-Tgi7OEcS2Fuw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 27 2013, Andrew Davidoff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I understand fio's threaded operation, mrfiles are generated for
> each thread (jobs=N), and each thread operates on its own files. Is
> there a way to tell fio to spawn multiple threads, but for each to
> access a single set of files?
>
> So:
>
> nrfiles=2048
> jobs=12
>
> Would produce 12 threads working against the same 2048 files.
See the 'filename_format' option.
--
Jens Axboe
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2013-06-27 18:18 Make threads access the same files? Andrew Davidoff
2013-06-28 14:08 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2013-06-28 20:41 ` Andrew Davidoff
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