Flexible I/O Tester development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: "Jeffrey McVay (jmcvay)" <jmcvay@micron.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FIO 2.0.9 for Windows Server 2008 RC1 SP2 reports extreme latencies
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:07:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507548FE.9010106@cran.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C8CA972100601A41AE302914E9CE194655F9DEF4@NTXBOIMBX03.micron.com>

On 06/10/2012 01:25, Jeffrey McVay (jmcvay) wrote:
> Anything new on this issue? There is a reviewer using FIO on Windows to measure latency values. I am concerned that they may publish inaccurate data.

I'm working on it again today.
The problem is that windowsaio iterates over the list of outstanding IOs 
(busylist), but that list has the most recent first. The sequence of 
queue/dequeue with an iodepth of 4 is:

queue 1
queue 2
queue 3
queue 4
dequeue 4
queue 5
dequeue 5
queue 6
dequeue 6
dequeue 3
dequeue 2
dequeue 1

So the first IO therefore has an apparent latency equal to the runtime 
of fio.

-- 
Bruce Cran


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24  5:41 FIO 2.0.9 for Windows Server 2008 RC1 SP2 reports extreme latencies Jeffrey McVay (jmcvay)
2012-09-24 13:28 ` Bruce Cran
2012-09-26 16:30   ` Jeffrey McVay (jmcvay)
2012-09-26 16:32     ` Bruce Cran
2012-09-29  6:23       ` Jens Axboe
2012-09-29 13:46         ` Bruce Cran
2012-09-29 14:21           ` Jens Axboe
2012-10-06  0:25             ` Jeffrey McVay (jmcvay)
2012-10-10 10:07               ` Bruce Cran [this message]
2012-10-10 10:41                 ` Bruce Cran
2012-10-10 14:15                   ` Jens Axboe
2012-10-10 14:18                     ` Bruce Cran
2012-10-10 14:19                       ` Jens Axboe

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=507548FE.9010106@cran.org.uk \
    --to=bruce@cran.org.uk \
    --cc=axboe@kernel.dk \
    --cc=fio@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=jmcvay@micron.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox