From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753983AbYIBICx (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 04:02:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752091AbYIBICh (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 04:02:37 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.185]:47138 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752056AbYIBICd (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 04:02:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=iMfkwUzwUUP2+Xz1CVikq/HhG6NLdd+qlR9M+zdl3dti94o1i3s+FVg7SYGK112xRE F3otMgomwWjjD4ursNbi/m32nlngUIwXFNwbMw+N0/2WwwGQCjg4V/WU2UOyfq+Exnip j3Jhz7RF08dG5k5N5LSDq54ppDzzVtwvEmgeM= Message-ID: <91b13c310809020102j42e91ba2q65dd2f2f60bfde35@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:02:30 +0800 From: "rae l" To: "Dan Williams" , jmm@users.sourceforge.net, mhydra@users.sourceforge.net, miku@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: from raid456 patch, about the tiotest tool Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, "James W. Laferriere" , "Neil Brown" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <91b13c310808261103y326d57e8q737647b88d925daa@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <91b13c310808261103y326d57e8q737647b88d925daa@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:03 AM, rae l wrote: > Hello, Dan: > I've known your md(raid456) patch just before v2.6.26, > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=8b3e6cdc53b7f29f7026955d6cb6902a49322a15 > > your md patch referred to tiobench, which is the multi-thread > benchmark tool, I'm interested on this tool and I found I ran it > differently with your results, so I want to know more about it, > > from its home page, it only released v0.3.3 on Mar 2002, > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiobench/ > > but from its cvs repository, it has released v0.4.1, > > http://tiobench.cvs.sourceforge.net/tiobench/tiobench/ > > Could you tell me what version of tiobench did you use? I want to see > if that's my configuration fault or I have used wrong program version. > > And when using v0.4.1 of tiobench from its cvs repository, I found its > multiple threads random IO statistics code reported wrong results, and > have resolved it by this patch, > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2047536&group_id=3857&atid=303857 > > But its upstream seems have not noticed it yet, so I want to if > someone on this mailling-list know tiobench upstream and be able to > take this message? Hope someone can wake up the tiobench developer? > > Thanks. > > -- > Denis Cheng >