Re: [Bug report] Runtime, IOPS, bandwidth recorded incorrectly if small size with time_based

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 05/04/2015 03:25 PM, Brian Fulton wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> I've been actively looking at this bug.  It was introduced with change
> e5437a073e658e8154b9e87bab5c7b3b06ed4255
> (https://github.com/axboe/fio/commit/e5437a073e658e8154b9e87bab5c7b3b06ed4255).
>
> In this change, the time granularity was changed from microseconds to
> milliseconds.  This change assumes that all loops take at least 1ms to
> complete.  This is not always true and tests where the loop gets
> processed, regularly, in sub-millisecond time result in many zeroes
> being summed which, ultimately, causes a completely inaccurate
> runtime.
>
> I have a fix for this, but I want to verify that it doesn't break
> anything as it is changing the way the runtime is being calculated.
>
> We are using fio version 2.2.6, though this issue should still be
> present in the latest version (2.2.7).
>
>
> Below is a patch fix based of the latest version of fio 2.2.7:

Thanks, that makes more sense. Akash, can you confirm that this fixes it 
for you?

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Jens Axboe