On 10/02/2015 04:04 PM, Fabrice Bacchella wrote:
When writing my new hdfs engine, I met a problem with IO merge.

If I submit IO that are bigger that what the hdfs can manage, I return them to 
fio as incomplete IO, the net engine works the same way :
in engines/net.c, line 668+
                        io_u->resid = io_u->xfer_buflen - ret;
                        io_u->error = 0;
                        return FIO_Q_COMPLETED;

But the fio count them as two or more fast IO. I'm not sure it's a good 
measurement because if I'm simulating an application with fio, I expect to get 
the full IO latency and operations/s count. I don't mesure to mesure sub-io for 
that. For example, reducing the maximum transfer size will increase IO/s and 
reduce latency, even if the simulated application really sees reduced 
performance, because more of it's high level IO operation generated more real 
IO.

Is there a way to prevent that in fio, or is that up to my engine to manage 
that and merge IO ?--

It sounds like a bug in the fio accounting, for the case of short reads/writes. That doesn't happen very often elsewhere, so not unreasonable to expect that is the case. Feel free to poke around and figure it out. Let me know if that doesn't work out, and I'll take a stab at fixing it up.

--
Jens Axboe

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