Re: A quick fio test (was Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets",generic AIO support, v3)

[Avi Kivity]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>   
> > Maybe a device mapper delay target or nbd + O_DIRECT can insert delays 
> > to make the workload more disk-like.
> >     
>
> yeah. I'll hack a small timeout into loopback requests i think. But then 
> real disk-platter effects are left out ... so it all comes down to 
> eventually having to try it on real disks too :)
>   

Having a random component in the timeout may increase realism.

hundred-disk boxes are noisy, though the blinkenlights are nice :)


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