The commit 191d6634e8a6 ("verify: fix bytes_done accounting of experimental verify") introduced td->bytes_verified to separate the verified bytes from the read bytes in td->bytes_done[]. This fixed the issue of experimental verify feature. However, it caused another issue. When the verify workload does only read and does not do write, the read bytes in td->bytes_done[] is no longer updated and always zero. This zero value is returned from do_io() to thread_main() in the bytes_done array. If the read bytes is zero, thread_main() marks the job to terminate and it makes the loops option ignored. For example, the job below should do 8k read, but it does only 4k read. [global] filename=/tmp/fio.test size=4k verify=md5 [write] rw=write do_verify=0 [read] stonewall=1 rw=read loops=2 do_verify=1 To make the loops option work together with the read-verify workloads, modify io_u_update_bytes_done(). After updating td->bytes_verified, check if the workload does not write. If so, do not return from io_u_update_bytes_done() and update td->bytes_done[] for DDIR_READ in the following code. Fixes: 191d6634e8a6 ("verify: fix bytes_done accounting of experimental verify") Signed-off-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@xxxxxxx> --- io_u.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/io_u.c b/io_u.c index 13187882..4254675a 100644 --- a/io_u.c +++ b/io_u.c @@ -2151,7 +2151,8 @@ static void io_u_update_bytes_done(struct thread_data *td, if (td->runstate == TD_VERIFYING) { td->bytes_verified += icd->bytes_done[DDIR_READ]; - return; + if (td_write(td)) + return; } for (ddir = 0; ddir < DDIR_RWDIR_CNT; ddir++) -- 2.43.0