On 2011-09-15 08:23, Taisuke Yamada wrote: >>> [snip], I added "replay_rebase" option to shift offset of IO request for >>> each thread. >> >> Thanks, I can see this being handy. I can apply this, but I would much >> prefer if you resend it with the proper updates to HOWTO and fio.1 >> adding the new option. Otherwise nobody is going to learn about it. > > Just in case you have missed (I had to break In-Reply-To chain as git > format-patch did not respect it). I'm re-posting updated patch with docs. > Please apply #1 and #2 if it seems acceptable. > > I believe #2 patch is also worth adding to fio, but not sure if I should make > it optional feature (/w doc) or not. By wraparounding offset address, it'll > probably make benchmark result look better than actual for rotational disk > drives. OTOH, it's better than failing to run just because trace-generating > device was larger than replaying device. I worry about the 2nd patch, it's a bit of a hack. You could make it an option and turn it on unconditionally for replay_rebase, or at least make it conditional on that. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
