From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:20:33 -0800 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] Collection of various fio fixes and extensions V2 Message-ID: <20140220172033.GD30251@kernel.dk> References: <20140220131958.965092001@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140220131958.965092001@linux.vnet.ibm.com> To: ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org, oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com List-ID: On Thu, Feb 20 2014, ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: > *Resend with hopefully non mangled patches* > > Hi, > we adopted fio as a very good tool back at version 1.57. > It suited our needs in replacing iozone with a more modern and more capable > benchmarking tool. Glad to hear it! > As it is usually we needed a few little extensions to support the old use > cases we wanted to migrate to the new benchmark. Also we found a few issues > in the fio code that we had to fix. > > All that happened a long time back and we always wanted to cotribute our > changes to the project which after a loooong legal process now is finally > possible. To make things worse the code was affected by some bit rot due > to that legal waiting time which in turn stalled me making it ready for > submission again. > > I'm happy that I finally found some time to update the patches to match to > the current fio git. It passed my 18 test cases which are based on the > examples delivered with fio new for the new functionality added. I have applied all of the patches directly, except for 8/9. I fixed up the options issues I noted, and also fixed up rbd not being updated for the multidirectory support. Thanks! -- Jens Axboe