Re: aio tiobench

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 11:29, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 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.
> 

I doubt anyone ships packages for them.  LTP has integrated some aio
tests though.

-chris