Re: [PATCH 0/2] null_blk: zone support

[Jens Axboe]

On 7/10/18 12:49 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 12:45 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> The difference between the job file and the
>> workload run can be huge. Consider something really basic:
>>
>> [randwrites]
>> bs=4k
>> rw=randwrite
>>
>> which would be 100% random 4k writes. If I run this on a zoned device,
>> then that'd turn into 100% sequential writes.
> 
> That's not correct. The ZBD code in the github pull request serializes writes
> per zone, not globally.

That's a totally minor detail. If all my random writes fall within a single
zone, then they'd be 100% sequential. For N open zones, you'd be 100%
sequential within the zone. The point is that the workload as defined and
the workload as run are two totally different things, and THAT is the
problem.

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Jens Axboe