> Il giorno 24 ott 2017, alle ore 08:28, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > Hi, > > If memory serves it's actually slightly more complicated. If you are > using loops=<number> then I *think* (you'll have to check) you will > find that invalidation happens once per each loop start. However when > you use time_based to do the repetition there is essentially only one > "loop" (even though the job goes on forever) so loop actions only > happen right at the start of the job with that option (that's why I > put the scare quotes around "beginning" ;-). > Thanks for this additional, useful piece of information. Actually, this further, possibly different caching behavior makes me think that some extra comment in the manpage might be helpful. Thanks, Paolo > On 24 October 2017 at 04:23, Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> thank you very much for answering this and my other question >> thoroughly! >> >> Maybe I would specify, in the description of invalidate, that the >> invalidation is not repeated in case the I/O on a file restarts from >> the beginning go the file. > > -- > Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- 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
