From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Measuring IOPS (solved, I think)
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:34:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E392453.9080905@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201108031103.05502.Martin@lichtvoll.de>
On 2011-08-03 11:03, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> Perhaps the name isn't that great? I'll gladly put in an alias for that
>> option, "wait_for_previous" or "barrier" or something like that. Fence?
>
> wait_before? But then "wait_for_previous" might be the clearest
> description. "wait_before" would make sense with an "wait_after" that
> waits after the job for its completion. But two options for basically the
> same thing might complicate matters even more.
Yes, I'm not going to add another option where only the placement of it
would make a difference. I'll add wait_for_previous.
> So "wait_for_previous" or maybe "finish_previous_first" or just
> "finish_previous" would be fine with me.
>
> But then this doesn´t imply that fio does a cache flush. But that could be
> documented in the manpage with an additional hint on this option. I will
> think about it and possibly provide a patch.
Not really impacted by that, those are controlled on a job by job basis
anyway.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-03 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-29 15:37 Measuring IOPS Martin Steigerwald
2011-07-29 16:14 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-02 14:32 ` Measuring IOPS (solved, I think) Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-02 19:48 ` Jens Axboe
2011-08-02 21:28 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-03 7:17 ` Jens Axboe
2011-08-03 9:03 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-03 10:34 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-08-03 19:31 ` Measuring IOPS Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-03 20:22 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-08-03 20:33 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-04 7:50 ` Jens Axboe
2011-08-03 20:42 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-03 20:50 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-04 8:51 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-04 8:58 ` Jens Axboe
2011-08-04 9:34 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-04 10:02 ` Jens Axboe
2011-08-04 10:23 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-08-05 7:28 ` Jens Axboe
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