From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Ruvinsky, Konstantin" <Konstantin.Ruvinsky@emc.com>,
"fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FW: default value for random_generator
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 22:04:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AD95DD.9060902@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <923FC40148D42D44A828D320CE66E06A01F15E@MX204CL01.corp.emc.com>
On 01/30/2016 10:21 AM, Ruvinsky, Konstantin wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> Thanks for your answer. Sorry for delay - was OOO.
> The patch is very simple: is necessary to add words ", this is the default value" after description of the tausworthe generator:
>
>
> 999 random_generator=str Fio supports the following engines for generating
> 1000 IO offsets for random IO:
> 1001
> 1002 tausworthe Strong 2^88 cycle random number generator,
> this is the default value.
> 1003 lfsr Linear feedback shift register generator
> 1004 tausworthe64 Strong 64-bit 2^258 cycle random number
> 1005 generator
>
> Could you please add it to one of your future commits, since I'm not familiar enough with patching?
Sure, I added a mention of that to the HOWTO and man page.
--
Jens Axboe
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-27 12:21 FW: default value for random_generator Ruvinsky, Konstantin
2016-01-27 22:13 ` Jens Axboe
2016-01-30 17:21 ` Ruvinsky, Konstantin
2016-01-31 5:04 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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