On 2014-07-29 19:30, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2014-07-28 19:42, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
When dealing with a growing number of fio test scripts, copy/pasting
global section becomes error-prone and cumbersome. Is it possible (or
how much effort would it be to add such a feature) to pull a named set
of global settings into the .fio file?
Not currently possible, but I can see it being a useful feature. I'll add it
to the list. Something ala
fio --shared globals.fio actual-job.fio
I added something similar back in April for command line jobs, where you can
now do
fio --some-setting=1 --other-setting=2 actual-job.fio
and have that those settings be part of the global namespace.
My take would be to focus on the .fio file rather than on the
command-line, as job files lend itself very well to the management and
version control found in the test suite settings. Adding support for
the include filenames... directive in .fio files would make the most
sense to me in this respect.
Yes, an include directive would be useful. After writing the previous
email I thought a bit more about it, and decided that the way to go
would not be an extra --shared or --include, but rather just have that
be the default behavior if a job file only had a global section. But we
could still allow that, and add an include directive in the parser.
--
Jens Axboe
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