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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Taisuke Yamada <tai@rakugaki.org>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Added replay_rebase option to run multi-threaded log replay on different disk sectors.
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:10:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E71DD1C.1060708@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM8qCPLxw2zSS1tQudnurDSMZcugrc_Cf=9MLfK2D_RphmMn9A@mail.gmail.com>

On 2011-09-15 08:23, Taisuke Yamada wrote:
>>> [snip], I added "replay_rebase" option to shift offset of IO request for
>>> each thread.
>>
>> Thanks, I can see this being handy. I can apply this, but I would much
>> prefer if you resend it with the proper updates to HOWTO and fio.1
>> adding the new option. Otherwise nobody is going to learn about it.
> 
> Just in case you have missed (I had to break In-Reply-To chain as git
> format-patch did not respect it). I'm re-posting updated patch with docs.
> Please apply #1 and #2 if it seems acceptable.
> 
> I believe #2 patch is also worth adding to fio, but not sure if I should make
> it optional feature (/w doc) or not. By wraparounding offset address, it'll
> probably make benchmark result look better than actual for rotational disk
> drives. OTOH, it's better than failing to run just because trace-generating
> device was larger than replaying device.

I worry about the 2nd patch, it's a bit of a hack. You could make it an
option and turn it on unconditionally for replay_rebase, or at least
make it conditional on that.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-09  5:12 [PATCH 1/2] Added replay_rebase option to run multi-threaded log replay on different disk sectors Taisuke Yamada
2011-09-09  8:37 ` Jens Axboe
2011-09-15  6:23   ` Taisuke Yamada
2011-09-15 11:10     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-09-15 11:52       ` Taisuke Yamada
2011-09-15 11:14     ` Jens Axboe
2011-09-15 11:40       ` Taisuke Yamada
2011-09-15 11:42         ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-12  5:30 Taisuke Yamada

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