> > Fundamentally, this argument needs to support larger than > > 32-bit values. Persistent memory devices easily exceed that > > bandwidth too. > > > > Other arguments like "size" already take large values into an > > unsigned long long. So, just changing this for "rate" and > > "rate_min" might suffice: > > .type = FIO_OPT_INT, > > to > > .type = FIO_OPT_STR_VAL, > > Yup but there are two issues here: > > 1. (This bug report) The range handling of all FIO_OPT_INT arguments > is broken. > > 2. rate (and min_rate) should support values bigger than 4G. > > I am working on a PR/patch for item 2 [1]. Looking for guidance on > item 1. > Should at least item 2 go into 3.20?
