From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LqXKe-0006ko-9t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:44:36 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LqXKY-0006i2-S4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:44:35 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59874 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqXKY-0006hx-DY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:44:30 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:37329) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LqXKW-0002i1-9A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:44:30 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n35IfvQK026356 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:41:57 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n35IiAph202408 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:44:10 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n35IiAxV014846 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:44:10 -0600 Received: from squirrel.codemonkey.ws (sig-9-65-213-73.mts.ibm.com [9.65.213.73]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n35Ii9HQ014816 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:44:10 -0600 Message-ID: <49D8FBF8.2080301@us.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:44:08 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-io - an I/O path exerciser References: <20090329084953.GA13311@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20090329084953.GA13311@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This patch adds a new qemu-io tool that links against the block layer and > image formats and allow to exercise them without needing a guest image. > It is inspired by the xfs_io tool which does the same for plain file I/O. > In fact the libxcmd library which is the backend of xfs_io is reused by this > tool in a limited fashing (cmd.[ch] files). > > This version tests out most of the plain block I/O commands with the > most notable absent commands beeing snapshot handling and real aio. > > This tool is the basis of the I/O path test suite I'm working on right now. > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig > Applied. Thanks. -- Regards, Anthony Liguori