Re: [PATCH take2 0/5] dio: clean up completion phase of direct_io_worker()

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 06:13:06 EST


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

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