On 07/26/2017 08:20 PM, Stephen Bates wrote: > >> You are potentially breaking existing scripts with this change. If >> someone currently has: > >> hipri=1 > >> in their job file, it'll work fine. After this change, it'll be 1% >> polled IO. > > Fair point. How about I make it a float and use values between 0 and > 1? That way existing scripts will continue to work. That's kind of horrible from a usability point of view. Other percentage options take 0..100. Since it's just an IO engine option, just add a hipri_percentage or something option instead, which takes 0..100 as the input. -- 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
