Re: [Gluster-devel] fio libgfapi engine available

[John Mark Walker]

Hi there,

This is really great! Thanks for posting. You and Ben England (CC'd) should get 
together. He has a project on the forge called "Smallfile Performance Testing" 
- https://forge.gluster.org/smallfile-performance-testing/

Also, please mirror your repo on the forge, when you get a chance. 

-JM



----- Original Message -----
> Hi team,
> 
> I am pleased to make available a preliminary drop of fio libgfapi engine. The
> idea is to investigate how much performance benefit that libgfapi can
> provide over FUSE. Per my initial testing, I see some positive results using
> libgfapi.
> 
> Please find the repository at https://github.com/rootfs/fio
> 
> In this drop, the gfapi engine is only capable of sync read/write operations,
> I am planning to make async IO available in the next drop.
> 
> To make the new engine, you have to have glusterfs-api-devel package
> installed. The following command line illustrates a simple test, where vol
> is the gluster volume, bd-brick is the gluster brick name.
> 
> fio --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --size=10G --runtime=60 --numjobs=1
> --group_reporting --name=/fio_test --ioengine=gfapi --volume=vol
> --brick=bd-brick
> 
> Happy testing,
> 
> HC
> 
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