From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Erwan Velu <erwan@enovance.com>
Cc: "fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to loop a timebased job
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 16:37:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130903223727.GB31170@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522639CE.2030705@enovance.com>
On Tue, Sep 03 2013, Erwan Velu wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm on the IRC channel trying to help someone that needs to do the following
> :
>
> doing IOs for x seconds
> sleeping for y seconds
> and looping this z times
>
> While trying to setup this, I faced that loops and timebased seems exclusive
> options.
> Am I wrong on this point ?
>
> If not, would it be possible not to let them exclusive or add a new option
> to handle this case?
It should work, if it doesn't, I agree it's a bug. It's not certain than
anyone has considered this specific use case before.
Feel free to fix! Or I can take a look at it tomorrow.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-03 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-03 19:34 How to loop a timebased job Erwan Velu
2013-09-03 22:37 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2013-09-04 13:56 ` Erwan Velu
2013-09-04 17:52 ` Jens Axboe
2013-09-04 20:02 ` Erwan Velu
2013-09-04 20:11 ` Jens Axboe
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