Re: [PATCH v3 11/13] ext4/062: Atomic writes test for bigalloc using fio crc verifier on multiple files

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

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 07:42:53PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
> 
> Brute force all possible blocksize clustersize combination on a bigalloc
> filesystem for stressing atomic write using fio data crc verifier. We run
> multiple threads in parallel with each job writing to its own file. The
> parallel jobs running on a constrained filesystem size ensure that we stress
> the ext4 allocator to allocate contiguous extents.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  tests/ext4/062     | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/ext4/062.out |   2 +
>  2 files changed, 178 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 tests/ext4/062
>  create mode 100644 tests/ext4/062.out
> 
> diff --git a/tests/ext4/062 b/tests/ext4/062
> new file mode 100755
> index 00000000..85b82f97
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tests/ext4/062
> @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
> +#! /bin/bash
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +# Copyright (c) 2025 IBM Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
> +#
> +# FS QA Test 061
> +#
> +# Brute force all possible blocksize clustersize combination on a bigalloc
> +# filesystem for stressing atomic write using fio data crc verifier. We run
> +# nproc * $LOAD_FACTOR threads in parallel writing to a single
> +# $SCRATCH_MNT/test-file. We also create 8 such parallel jobs to run on
> +# a constrained filesystem size to stress the ext4 allocator to allocate
> +# contiguous extents.

Looks ok to me,
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>

--D

> +#
> +
> +. ./common/preamble
> +. ./common/atomicwrites
> +
> +_begin_fstest auto rw stress atomicwrites
> +
> +_require_scratch_write_atomic
> +_require_aiodio
> +
> +FSSIZE=$((360*1024*1024))
> +FIO_LOAD=$(($(nproc) * LOAD_FACTOR))
> +fiobsize=4096
> +
> +# Calculate fsblocksize as per bdev atomic write units.
> +bdev_awu_min=$(_get_atomic_write_unit_min $SCRATCH_DEV)
> +bdev_awu_max=$(_get_atomic_write_unit_max $SCRATCH_DEV)
> +fsblocksize=$(_max 4096 "$bdev_awu_min")
> +
> +function create_fio_configs()
> +{
> +	create_fio_aw_config
> +	create_fio_verify_config
> +}
> +
> +function create_fio_verify_config()
> +{
> +cat >$fio_verify_config <<EOF
> +	[global]
> +	direct=1
> +	ioengine=libaio
> +	rw=randwrite
> +	bs=$fiobsize
> +	fallocate=truncate
> +	size=$((FSSIZE / 12))
> +	iodepth=$FIO_LOAD
> +	numjobs=$FIO_LOAD
> +	group_reporting=1
> +	atomic=1
> +
> +	verify_only=1
> +	verify_state_save=0
> +	verify=crc32c
> +	verify_fatal=1
> +	verify_write_sequence=0
> +
> +	[verify-job1]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job1
> +
> +	[verify-job2]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job2
> +
> +	[verify-job3]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job3
> +
> +	[verify-job4]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job4
> +
> +	[verify-job5]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job5
> +
> +	[verify-job6]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job6
> +
> +	[verify-job7]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job7
> +
> +	[verify-job8]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job8
> +
> +EOF
> +}
> +
> +function create_fio_aw_config()
> +{
> +cat >$fio_aw_config <<EOF
> +	[global]
> +	direct=1
> +	ioengine=libaio
> +	rw=randwrite
> +	bs=$fiobsize
> +	fallocate=truncate
> +	size=$((FSSIZE / 12))
> +	iodepth=$FIO_LOAD
> +	numjobs=$FIO_LOAD
> +	group_reporting=1
> +	atomic=1
> +
> +	verify_state_save=0
> +	verify=crc32c
> +	do_verify=0
> +
> +	[write-job1]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job1
> +
> +	[write-job2]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job2
> +
> +	[write-job3]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job3
> +
> +	[write-job4]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job4
> +
> +	[write-job5]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job5
> +
> +	[write-job6]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job6
> +
> +	[write-job7]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job7
> +
> +	[write-job8]
> +	filename=$SCRATCH_MNT/testfile-job8
> +
> +EOF
> +}
> +
> +# Let's create a sample fio config to check whether fio supports all options.
> +fio_aw_config=$tmp.aw.fio
> +fio_verify_config=$tmp.verify.fio
> +fio_out=$tmp.fio.out
> +
> +create_fio_configs
> +_require_fio $fio_aw_config
> +
> +for ((fsblocksize=$fsblocksize; fsblocksize <= $(_get_page_size); fsblocksize = $fsblocksize << 1)); do
> +	# cluster sizes above 16 x blocksize are experimental so avoid them
> +	# Also, cap cluster size at 128kb to keep it reasonable for large
> +	# blocks size cases.
> +	fs_max_clustersize=$(_min $((16 * fsblocksize)) "$bdev_awu_max" $((128 * 1024)))
> +
> +	for ((fsclustersize=$fsblocksize; fsclustersize <= $fs_max_clustersize; fsclustersize = $fsclustersize << 1)); do
> +		for ((fiobsize = $fsblocksize; fiobsize <= $fsclustersize; fiobsize = $fiobsize << 1)); do
> +			MKFS_OPTIONS="-O bigalloc -b $fsblocksize -C $fsclustersize"
> +			_scratch_mkfs_sized "$FSSIZE" >> $seqres.full 2>&1 || continue
> +			if _try_scratch_mount >> $seqres.full 2>&1; then
> +				echo "== FIO test for fsblocksize=$fsblocksize fsclustersize=$fsclustersize fiobsize=$fiobsize ==" >> $seqres.full
> +
> +				touch $SCRATCH_MNT/f1
> +				create_fio_configs
> +
> +				cat $fio_aw_config >> $seqres.full
> +				cat $fio_verify_config >> $seqres.full
> +
> +				$FIO_PROG $fio_aw_config >> $seqres.full
> +				ret1=$?
> +
> +				$FIO_PROG $fio_verify_config  >> $seqres.full
> +				ret2=$?
> +
> +				_scratch_unmount
> +
> +				[[ $ret1 -eq 0 && $ret2 -eq 0 ]] || _fail "fio with atomic write failed"
> +			fi
> +		done
> +	done
> +done
> +
> +# success, all done
> +echo Silence is golden
> +status=0
> +exit
> diff --git a/tests/ext4/062.out b/tests/ext4/062.out
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..a1578f48
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tests/ext4/062.out
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +QA output created by 062
> +Silence is golden
> -- 
> 2.49.0
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