Hi, I was hitting a case where fio would loop for ever even though the runtime was exceeded if it had difficulty getting the io_u struct, so I suggest this change to the code so it wld not loop forever: >git diff diff --git a/fio.c b/fio.c index bb26062..4927f1c 100644 --- a/fio.c +++ b/fio.c @@ -442,18 +442,17 @@ static void do_verify(struct thread_data *td) while (!td->terminate) { int ret2, full; - io_u = __get_io_u(td); - if (!io_u) - break; - update_tv_cache(td); if (runtime_exceeded(td, &td->tv_cache)) { - put_io_u(td, io_u); td->terminate = 1; break; } + io_u = __get_io_u(td); + if (!io_u) + break; + if (get_next_verify(td, io_u)) { put_io_u(td, io_u); break; @@ -580,18 +579,17 @@ static void do_io(struct thread_data *td) if (td->terminate) break; - io_u = get_io_u(td); - if (!io_u) - break; - update_tv_cache(td); if (runtime_exceeded(td, &td->tv_cache)) { - put_io_u(td, io_u); td->terminate = 1; break; } + io_u = get_io_u(td); + if (!io_u) + break; + /* * Add verification end_io handler, if asked to verify * a previously written file. thanks -radha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html