The following changes since commit f52e919826839eaba90903b67fe02042159a0023: gettime: make utime_since_now and mtime_since_now consistent in how they record the caller and put this all behind FIO_DEBUG_TIME (2017-05-03 08:49:37 -0600) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.dk/fio.git master for you to fetch changes up to c55fae03f7d5c0981e55241fc9003d762f7a5fd9: options: force refill_buffers with pattern and any reads (2017-05-04 08:43:27 -0600) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Axboe (1): options: force refill_buffers with pattern and any reads options.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- Diff of recent changes: diff --git a/options.c b/options.c index 85574d7..b489e90 100644 --- a/options.c +++ b/options.c @@ -1306,8 +1306,17 @@ static int str_buffer_pattern_cb(void *data, const char *input) assert(ret != 0); td->o.buffer_pattern_bytes = ret; - if (!td->o.compress_percentage) + + /* + * If this job is doing any reading or has compression set, + * ensure that we refill buffers for writes or we could be + * invalidating the pattern through reads. + */ + if (!td->o.compress_percentage && !td_read(td)) td->o.refill_buffers = 0; + else + td->o.refill_buffers = 1; + td->o.scramble_buffers = 0; td->o.zero_buffers = 0; -- 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