Re: 2.1.2 released

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On Tue, Aug 06 2013, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> On 06.08.2013 18:24, Erwan Velu wrote:
> >On 06/08/2013 17:58, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>Hi Folks,
> >>
> >>I tagged the release of 2.1.2 this morning. The basic changes since
> >>2.1.1 are:
> >>
> >>- The big graphing rework from Erwan.
> >>- A fix for a potential verification failure, courtesy of Josef Bacik.
> >>- Support for randomness of reads and writes independently.
> >>- Support for setting block sizes (or ranges) for random of sequential
> >>   IO.
> >>- Support for multicast network IO in the net ioengine, from Shawn
> >>   Bohrer.
> >>- RDMA io engine should now compile and work again, was broken with the
> >>   recent rewrites. From Yufei Ren.
> >>
> >>65 commits in total, of which I only did 8 of them. I believe that is a
> >>new record! Thanks a lot for your contributions, keep them coming.
> >>
> >I'd like to add also the genfio tool which is very useful to describe
> >complex and repetitive fio's jobs.
> >
> >I'm also adding an url where people can see the kind of graphing
> >fio2gnuplot does :
> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennael/sets/72157634249027122/
> 
> How does the fio2gnuplot tool work? There is no man page or example
> invocation that explains how to generate the plots. I tried "fio2gnuplot
> --iops" but that only dumps the usage options without any hint of what is
> wrong with that call.

Erwan, care to provide some documentation with the tool? That's the
first place I would look, too.

-- 
Jens Axboe