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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>,
	"fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Should io_limits/queue depth flushed persist while using verify_state?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:45:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B84322.10704@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALjAwxgmpWDviJiUyoXSZPy_-JP0va+QdXmhP-r6g6JTTRv7Fg@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/15/2015 04:01 AM, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> While using fio-2.2.4 the following snippet produces a verification
> error for me on the second fio invocation:
>
> fio --bs=4k --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --verify=meta --iodepth=128
> --io_limit=300k --verify_state_save=1 --rw=randwrite --name=write3
> --filename=/dev/dm-7 && fio --bs=4k --ioengine=libaio --direct=1
> --verify=meta --iodepth=128 --verify_state_load=1 --rw=randread
> --name=write3 --filename=/dev/dm-7
>
> However if I put the iodepth of the second fio command down to 64 or
> set io_limit the error goes away. I have also sometimes seen an error
> that looks similar if the first fio is killed via ctrl-C. Is this to
> be expected?

Doesn't reproduce here, but both cases would seem to imply that there's 
something not quite right with the completed ios in the verify state 
output. I'll take a look.

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-15 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-15 11:01 Should io_limits/queue depth flushed persist while using verify_state? Sitsofe Wheeler
2015-01-15 22:45 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2015-01-16 17:24   ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-17  9:11     ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2015-01-29  6:18       ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2015-01-29 16:43         ` Jens Axboe
2015-02-15 13:07           ` Sitsofe Wheeler

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