Re: FIO - Client and Server - Suggestion

["Neto, Antonio Jose Rodrigues" <Antonio.Jose.Rodrigues.Neto@netapp.com>]

On 10/7/14, 6:01 PM, "Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:

>On 10/07/2014 03:29 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 10/07/2014 11:38 AM, Neto, Antonio Jose Rodrigues wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> This is neto from Brazil
>>>
>>> How are you?
>>>
>>> One small suggestion:
>>>
>>> Running Client and Server architecture on FIO, we need to have all
>>>config
>>> files "locally" to run it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nossa Senhora:tools neto$ ls
>>> 151 152 fio
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nossa Senhora:tools neto$ ./fio --client 10.61.109.151 151 --client
>>> 10.61.109.152 152
>>> hostname=s2, be=0, 64-bit, os=Linux, arch=x86-64,
>>>fio=fio-2.1.13-31-g15e3,
>>> flags=1
>>> hostname=s1, be=0, 64-bit, os=Linux, arch=x86-64,
>>>fio=fio-2.1.13-31-g15e3,
>>> flags=1
>>> <s2> workload: (g=0): rw=read, <s1> workload: (g=0): rw=read,
>>> bs=64K-64K/64K-64K/64K-64K, bs=64K-64K/64K-64K/64K-64K,
>>>ioengine=libaio,
>>> iodepth=1
>>> ioengine=libaio, iodepth=1
>>>
>>> If we are doing a test in an HPC environment with hundred of files,
>>> wouldn't be easier to try to point to a single location for the file
>>>and
>>> access it remotely (we won't need to copy it locally).
>>>
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> ./fio --client 10.61.109.151 --remote-config /root/fio/151 --client
>>> 10.61.109.152 --remote-config /root/fio/152
>>>
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> That's a good idea, would not be hard to insert that step of having the
>> remote fio server load a local config file. I'll look into that.
>
>Totally untested, but the below is a start. On the client side, you'd do:
>
>fio --client=server-hostname --remote-config /some/path/to/file
>
>and then the server should attempt to open that. Needs a bit of error
>handling, but the concept should be there.
>
>-- 
>Jens Axboe


Hi Jens,

This is neto from Brazil

How are you?

I think it is not working.... Please see below:

Nossa Senhora:fio.patch neto$ ./fio --client 10.61.109.151 --remote-config
/root/fio.patch/model
hostname=s1, be=0, 64-bit, os=Linux, arch=x86-64, fio=fio-2.1.13-31-g15e3,
flags=1

Thank you,


neto