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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>, fio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/zbd: Fix I/O bytes rounding errors
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 20:36:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d394655f-e02a-df7e-4ac0-a5b480a1b3bd@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190809032836.10163-1-shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>

On 8/8/19 8:28 PM, Shin'ichiro Kawasaki wrote:
> When fio reports write bytes or read bytes, it rounds the number with
> units MiB or KiB to fit the number within limited number of digits.
> This results in rounding errors of the reported bytes and sometimes
> causes test failures for test case #17 in test-zbd-support
> which reports incorrect total I/O bytes in case both of write bytes
> and read bytes are rounded up.
> 
> To avoid the rounding error, increase the number of digits from default
> value 4 to 10 to keep precision. For example, a number "256MiB" will be
> reported as "267911168B" with this change.

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe



      reply	other threads:[~2019-08-09  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-09  3:28 [PATCH] t/zbd: Fix I/O bytes rounding errors Shin'ichiro Kawasaki
2019-08-09  3:36 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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