From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: engines like rdma engine that require additional dependencies
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:30:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9B06C2.7050005@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201110151144.06000.Martin@lichtvoll.de>
On 2011-10-15 11:44, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi Jens!
>
> I discussed with my package sponsor about whether to build rdma engine for
> fio 1.59 debian package or not. We decided to do it and see how it builds
> on all architectures.
>
> But on installing fio now also two additional libs get installed and one of
> them creates a user named "rdma".
>
> I wonder whether it would be feasible or good to have engines that require
> external dependencies as modules that could be packaged separately.
>
> Might not matter much as long as its only the rdma engine tough.
>
> What do you think?
It should be fairly easy to do that, fio already supports loading
external engines via dlopen(). So if engine/rdma.c is built as a
dynamically loadable object, then it could be packaged as
fio-engine-rdma or something like that.
--
Jens Axboe
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2011-10-15 9:44 engines like rdma engine that require additional dependencies Martin Steigerwald
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