Re: Stonewall reverse?

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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/18/2015 01:28 PM, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
>>
>> Stonewall option enforces post-serialization in that a job with the
>> option set waits for all other jobs in the file to complete. I'm
>> facing a use case where the reverse might be useful: have a number of
>> jobs wait for the specific one to complete. Is that something that can
>> be done with the existing options or a new development?
>
>
> So something like
>
> wait_for=id
>
> and 'id' would refer to a certain job?

Right. Or slightly extended to cover groups and inter-group
serialization (may be an overkill to start with).

> I can see that being a useful
> primitive, fio can't currently do that. Though it would be pretty easy to add.
>

OK, I'll look into this in my spare time.

Regards,
A.

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