From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 013.lax.mailroute.net (013.lax.mailroute.net [199.89.1.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C40043101DB; Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=199.89.1.16 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771866522; cv=none; b=kbPCtO6v6jek+PrVJ9tMo9swSxYVJiGQC2B7JJyx+cDUBLD6x/1/dRgZeqeSnFyisWXBMSnaQ2p3dx1w6VYZRK9J4I9cZzK196tK+8bnH9SJQivKcgKDXEJfjufIb5iVmFtTBl5ggQSW0yDUY4yAOeqWQa7P62HRM+TyFij21T4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771866522; c=relaxed/simple; bh=By1Ioj8GbL/V6zno4RRJtTxk1Y+neGd5c2WUwPqo6t4=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=qTs/6lMI0JuLPelFLz0y2rbABW8uwRRWMCbasGg8WcZKBG9HVY3MnZ/ljMequAjVgHSG7Cc1xniDWrn4PPegEZZl1BNYQnTgUPp1UckAe05NnfKvsmYn5YpSSW56K5vZDqKuJn82gLop4GRH+NsQC3Vl3sR/+BHzqr3Swxv1VLw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=acm.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=acm.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=acm.org header.i=@acm.org header.b=su8kXIo1; arc=none smtp.client-ip=199.89.1.16 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=acm.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=acm.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=acm.org header.i=@acm.org header.b="su8kXIo1" Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 013.lax.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4fKS414hq7zlh1Vk; Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:08:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=acm.org; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type:in-reply-to :from:from:content-language:references:subject:subject :user-agent:mime-version:date:date:message-id:received:received; s=mr01; t=1771866509; x=1774458510; bh=By1Ioj8GbL/V6zno4RRJtTxk 1Y+neGd5c2WUwPqo6t4=; b=su8kXIo1EVVPqrEph4n4SLJz+IZllnLbmCMPcRRW zHxl9VLPCWWB7lAs/QFZXSzt+jpl1qYPIdQtgrYFZCmVKNY1WrNNdnmofyq7DeFD M6fimJiVVJTwBhkhCJFsK7BBvRT3IrPunQNfjIU4WPzXFFBMwKkFTNeN/anwE/jj Izb6OBxY00m75DfXIdnCTrok6Unii/ABlX+p9C/YSd23OHNYrUpHWZ0W9ECiMtmL F1FiXYAhzVPeM6vyUxVTp+MvD0NWSpYGSheNAQQ30qn5e8G0b81iOp/EEhHzTB8A F4eSZgZpMrTO5rvvjdSoFdq4mu1zqwUh/asrmDi6S3VzUw== X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from 013.lax.mailroute.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (013.lax [127.0.0.1]) (mroute_mailscanner, port 10029) with LMTP id Snina6HJ5Dga; Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [100.119.48.131] (unknown [104.135.180.219]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bvanassche@acm.org) by 013.lax.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4fKS3q2HxZzlh1Vg; Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <40edeeec-dbc3-4aef-ac86-691e1ed2ed06@acm.org> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:08:22 -0800 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF ATTEND][LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] : blktests: status, expansion plan for the storage stack test framework To: Haris Iqbal , Shinichiro Kawasaki Cc: Daniel Wagner , Chaitanya Kulkarni , "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" , "lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org" , Hannes Reinecke , hch , Jens Axboe , "sagi@grimberg.me" , "tytso@mit.edu" , Johannes Thumshirn , Christian Brauner , "Martin K. Petersen" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , =?UTF-8?Q?Javier_Gonz=C3=A1lez?= , "willy@infradead.org" , Jan Kara , "amir73il@gmail.com" , "vbabka@suse.cz" , Damien Le Moal References: <31a2a4c2-8c33-429a-a2b1-e1f3a0e90d72@nvidia.com> <459953fa-5330-4eb1-a1b4-7683b04e3d45@flourine.local> Content-Language: en-US From: Bart Van Assche In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2/15/26 1:18 PM, Haris Iqbal wrote: > A possible feature for blktest could be integration with something > like virtme-ng. > Running on VM can be versatile and fast. The run can be made parallel > too, by spawning multiple VMs simultaneously. Hmm ... this probably would break tests that measure performance and also tests that modify data or reservations of a physical storage device. Bart.