From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030748AbWJDKMt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:12:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030788AbWJDKMt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:12:49 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([62.242.22.158]:45109 "EHLO kernel.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030748AbWJDKMs (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:12:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:12:24 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Zach Brown Cc: Andrew Morton , 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() Message-ID: <20061004101223.GF7778@kernel.dk> References: <20061002232119.18827.96966.sendpatchset@tetsuo.zabbo.net> <20061003152004.ca255c33.akpm@osdl.org> <4522EB94.1040708@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4522EB94.1040708@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 03 2006, Zach Brown wrote: > > I trust a lot of testing was done on blocksize > 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