Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:29:54 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aio tiobench
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On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 03:05, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> So I farted around for a hour or two seeing if I could get tiobench
>> to do aio for the general purpose of exercising codepaths, benchmarking,
>> etc. in simple ways. Hopefully this answers the need for regular,
>> simple, and easily-available methods of exercising and/or benchmarking
>> the aio code in some way.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:28:43AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> You might want to check out the list of benchmarks collected at:
> http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html
> I found that adapting existing benchmarks made it hard to test some of
> the aio corner cases, so aio-stress is just a big state machine, with
> options to tweak how badly you want to abuse the aio subsystem.  
> There are a few other good ones on the page though.

Looks encouraging. What's the distro coverage like? deb doesn't have them.


-- wli
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