ok, I understand. I didn't think of stonewall as being part of a job. I thought of it as a separator between jobs, unrelated to any specific job. which is not what the documentation explains. On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On 12 July 2017 at 06:13, Ido Ben-Tsion <idob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> fio version: fio-2.21-37-ga2c9 >> >> fio file excerpt: >> [global] >> ioengine=sg >> invalidate=1 >> ramp_time=5 >> iodepth=16 >> runtime=300 >> time_based >> bs=64k >> norandommap >> loops=5 >> >> [seq_read-2-jobs] >> rw=read >> numjobs=2 >> stonewall >> >> [randread] >> rw=randread >> [seq_write] >> rw=write >> stonewall >> ... >> >> In the report, I see jobs with groupid 0 which are not supposed to be >> on same group: >> ...,jobname,groupid,... >> ...,seq_read-2-jobs,0,... >> ...,seq_read-2-jobs,0,... >> ...,randread,0,... >> ...,seq_write,1,... > > I'm not sure I follow - which jobs are wrong? Looking at the opening > sentence explanation (and the alternative name) for stonewall in the > HOWTO (http://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_man.html#cmdoption-arg-stonewall > ) seems to describe the behaviour you're seeing. > > Can you be more explicit as to the problem? > > -- > Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- Ido Ben-Tsion Ackerstein Towers, A Tower, Fl.4 Hamenofim St. P.O.B 12696, Hertzelia Pituach, 46725 T +972.9.970.4000, F +972.9.970.4001 M +972.5X.XXX.XXXX www.infinidat.com -- 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