From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q8R0IrkW013496 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:18:53 -0500 Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.145]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 6RZxczEXzay2YTOS for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:20:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:19:59 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] xfstests: add fio requirement V2 Message-ID: <20120927001959.GE15236@dastard> References: <1348496601-32637-1-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1348496601-32637-1-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dmitry Monakhov Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 06:23:16PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > FIO is very flexible io generator, i would call it IO swiss knife. > Currently we have tonns of hardcoded application which reproduces > some predefined scenario. This approach has obvious dissadvantages > 1) Lack of flexability: one written it is hard to modify it in future > 2) Code base is large, many routines written again and again > > At the same time add new fio based tast is just add simle INI file. > This greatly simplify code review. I do beleve that some day we will > replace most of hardcoded io binaries with fio. > > One who is planning to run $FIO_PROG should first check that system > contains appropriate version which is able to handle jobfile > for example: _require_fio 286-job.fio > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov Looks good. Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs