On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 17:18 -0500, Laurence Oberman wrote: > OK, I ran 5 at once of 5 separate mount points. > I am using 4k block sizes > Its solid consistent for me. No stalls no gaps. Hi Laurence, That's great news and thank you for having shared this information but I think it should be mentioned that you have been running my tree in which some recent block and dm patches were reverted (https://github.com/bvanassche/linux/tree/block-scsi-for-next) > > [global] > name=02-mq > filename=fio-output-02-mq.txt > rw=randwrite > verify=md5 > ;rwmixread=60 > ;rwmixwrite=40 > bs=4K > ;direct=1 > ;numjobs=4 > ;time_based=1 > runtime=120 > > [file1] > size=3G > ioengine=libaio > iodepth=16 > > I watch I/O and I see it ramp up but fio still runs and it kind of > shuts down. In test "file1" I see an I/O size of 3G. Does that mean that the patch that should fix the sgl_alloc() issue is working? Thanks, Bart.