From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <5346B395.7000109@kernel.dk> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:07:01 -0600 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: fio on AIX - fallocate error References: <5346A3FE.10106@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: <5346A3FE.10106@kernel.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Carino, Mario" , "fio@vger.kernel.org" List-ID: On 2014-04-10 08:00, Jens Axboe wrote: > Fio should probably just ignore these flush-cache warnings and continue > on, it's not really a fatal condition. I have attached a patch for you, > can you apply that and give it a go? I committed a variant of this, since I think it makes sense to do. As a user, there's nothing you can do to make it work, if your platform is missing the cache invalidation part. And it's not a fatal error condition, so fio will just warn and go on. So you can git pull the update, or download the latest tar ball snapshot and give it another go. -- Jens Axboe