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From: "majun (F)" <majun258@huawei.com>
To: Philip Keogh <pkeogh@compusoftcs.com>
Cc: "fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Help: FIO testing problem on arm64
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 08:51:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CEC9F7.3050301@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB6=LfOaY-STQyyB_nm4Eu8GCnhSRVcQGDu_h2o6J2at0qZd3w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Philip:
	Thanks for you replying.
Can you explain the case of  "may step on itself" more detail ?


在 2015/1/30 16:48, Philip Keogh 写道:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:36 PM, majun (F) <majun258@huawei.com> wrote:
>> Hi All:
>>         I met a problem while testing the ramdisk peformance using fio.
>>         The platform is arm64 , fio version is 2.1.10.
>>
>>         The ramdisk is enabled on my platform , so there are dev/ram0 ...to dev/ram15 totall 16 ramdisk devices.
>>         I tried to test these ramdisks performance uisng the script file list as below.
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> ...
>>                                         fio --time_based ... --runtime=$runtime ... &
>>                                 done
>>                                 sleep $runtime
>>                         done
>> ...
>>         But the test result is not ok.
>>         The error log is:
>> ...
>>
> 
> Have you tried sleeping for slightly longer then the runtime passed to fio?
> 
> As a result of implementation details and the simple fact that sleep
> isn't exact, nor is fio's runtime, a script not allowing a sufficient
> buffer between backgrounded fio operations but intending to run
> operations sequentially may step on itself.
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-02  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-29  1:36 Help: FIO testing problem on arm64 majun (F)
2015-01-30  8:48 ` Philip Keogh
2015-02-02  0:51   ` majun (F) [this message]
2015-01-31  1:25 ` Kulkarni, Vasu

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