Re: rdma ioengine

[Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>]

On 2011-08-01 09:35, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2011-08-01 03:47, ren yufei wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>>
>> I have hacked an rdma ioengine based on OFED for fio which could test both rdma memory semantic (rdma_write/rdma_read) and channel semantic (send/recv). Would you like to merge this engine into fio?
>>
>> notes
>> 1) RDMA engine works in IB, iWarp and RoCE.
>> 2) RDMA engine is disable by default. To enable it, execute the following before compile:
>> $ export EXTFLAGS="-DFIO_HAVE_RDMA"
>> $ export EXTLIBS="-libverbs -lrdmacm"
> 
> Exciting! I'd love to apply this, but somewhere along the way the patch
> has been white space damaged. Can you resend this patch gzip'ed or
> something like that, to ensure that it doesn't get modified along the
> way? Bonus points if you re-indent, fio uses real tabs and not 4 spaces.
> Not a huge problem, I'll just lindent it as-is if need be.
> 
> It'd be great to have a small job file included as well for testing, and
> an example of a result using that job file.

And you already did include example job files, excellent. I applied your
patch, the mangling wasn't too bad. I also re-indented it with indent,
so it conforms to the fio coding style. Please double check the result!
Thanks.

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Jens Axboe