Re: [PATCH] common/filter: extend _filter_xfs_io to match -nan

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:22:58AM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> When run on ext4 with sufficiently fast x86_64 hardware, generic/130
> sometimes fails because xfs_io can report rate values as -nan:
> 0.000000 bytes, 0 ops; 0.0000 sec (-nan bytes/sec and -nan ops/sec)
> 
> _filter_xfs_io matches the strings 'inf' or 'nan', but not '-nan'.  In
> that case it fails to convert the actual output to a normalized form
> matching generic/130's golden output.  Extend the regular expression
> used to match xfs_io's output to fix this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
> ---
>  common/filter | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/filter b/common/filter
> index 5fe86756..5b20e848 100644
> --- a/common/filter
> +++ b/common/filter
> @@ -168,9 +168,9 @@ common_line_filter()
>  
>  _filter_xfs_io()
>  {
> -    # Apart from standard numeric values, we also filter out 'inf' and 'nan'
> -    # which can result from division in some cases
> -    sed -e "s/[0-9/.]* [GMKiBbytes]*, [0-9]* ops\; [0-9/:. sec]* ([infa0-9/.]* [EPGMKiBbytes]*\/sec and [infa0-9/.]* ops\/sec)/XXX Bytes, X ops\; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY\/sec and XXX ops\/sec)/"
> +    # Apart from standard numeric values, we also filter out 'inf', 'nan', and
> +    # '-nan' which can result from division in some cases
> +    sed -e "s/[0-9/.]* [GMKiBbytes]*, [0-9]* ops\; [0-9/:. sec]* ([infa0-9/.-]* [EPGMKiBbytes]*\/sec and [infa0-9/.-]* ops\/sec)/XXX Bytes, X ops\; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY\/sec and XXX ops\/sec)/"

/me squints at this regular expression and /thinks/ its ok.

Took me a while to figure out "infa" tho. :P

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

--D

>  }
>  
>  # Also filter out the offset part of xfs_io output
> -- 
> 2.30.2
>