From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6756E7F4E for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:19:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572D78F8033 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:19:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id DzVqqFGqHa5etfcG for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:19:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:19:21 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] xfstests: add fio requirement V2 Message-ID: <20130220011854.GK10731@dastard> References: <1361273843-16094-1-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1361273843-16094-1-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 Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dmitry Monakhov Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 03:37:13PM +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 Hi Dimitry, Can you rebase this series on top of a current xfstests tree? It doesn't apply without conflicts or trying to land on top of existing files, so that makes it hard to actually test and do a final review on.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs