From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: FW: default value for random_generator References: <923FC40148D42D44A828D320CE66E06A01E620@MX204CL01.corp.emc.com> <56A9411B.5020707@kernel.dk> <923FC40148D42D44A828D320CE66E06A01F15E@MX204CL01.corp.emc.com> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: <56AD95DD.9060902@kernel.dk> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 22:04:29 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <923FC40148D42D44A828D320CE66E06A01F15E@MX204CL01.corp.emc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Ruvinsky, Konstantin" , "fio@vger.kernel.org" List-ID: On 01/30/2016 10:21 AM, Ruvinsky, Konstantin wrote: > Hi Jens, > > Thanks for your answer. Sorry for delay - was OOO. > The patch is very simple: is necessary to add words ", this is the default value" after description of the tausworthe generator: > > > 999 random_generator=str Fio supports the following engines for generating > 1000 IO offsets for random IO: > 1001 > 1002 tausworthe Strong 2^88 cycle random number generator, > this is the default value. > 1003 lfsr Linear feedback shift register generator > 1004 tausworthe64 Strong 64-bit 2^258 cycle random number > 1005 generator > > Could you please add it to one of your future commits, since I'm not familiar enough with patching? Sure, I added a mention of that to the HOWTO and man page. -- Jens Axboe