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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-aio@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH take2 0/5] dio: clean up completion phase of direct_io_worker()
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:12:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004101223.GF7778@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4522EB94.1040708@oracle.com>

On Tue, Oct 03 2006, Zach Brown wrote:
> > I trust a lot of testing was done on blocksize<pagesize filesystems?
> 
> I haven't, no.
> 
> > And did you test direct-io into and out of hugepages?
> 
> No, though..
> 
> > `odread' and `odwrite' from
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz can be
> > used to test that.
> 
> .. I'll definitely give those a spin, thanks.
> 
> I'll see if I can get some real resources dedicated to collecting the N
> different piles of tests that are kicking around into something
> coherent.  It'll take a while, but I'm sure I'm not alone in being
> frustrated by this disorganized collaborative works-for-me approach.

fio can do most (all?) of this already, might be a good idea to create a
fio job file that has a proper range of regressions like tests for aio.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-04 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-02 23:21 [PATCH take2 0/5] dio: clean up completion phase of direct_io_worker() Zach Brown
2006-10-02 23:21 ` [PATCH take2 1/5] dio: centralize completion in dio_complete() Zach Brown
2006-10-03 22:26   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03 23:05     ` Zach Brown
2006-10-02 23:21 ` [PATCH take2 2/5] dio: call blk_run_address_space() once per op Zach Brown
2006-10-02 23:21 ` [PATCH take2 3/5] dio: formalize bio counters as a dio reference count Zach Brown
2006-10-03 22:44   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03 23:23     ` Zach Brown
2006-10-02 23:21 ` [PATCH take2 4/5] dio: remove duplicate bio wait code Zach Brown
2006-10-02 23:21 ` [PATCH take2 5/5] dio: only call aio_complete() after returning -EIOCBQUEUED Zach Brown
2006-10-03 21:47 ` [PATCH take2 0/5] dio: clean up completion phase of direct_io_worker() Jeff Moyer
2006-10-03 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03 23:00   ` Zach Brown
2006-10-04 10:12     ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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