Re: [PATCH] New offset_increment option

[Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/15/2012 12:19 AM, Dan Ehrenberg wrote:
> This patch adds a new option to fio job files. It is described
> in the HOWTO as follows:
> 
> offset_increment=int	If this is provided, then the real offset becomes
> 		the offset + offset_increment * thread_number, where the
> 		thread number is a counter that starts at 0 and is incremented
> 		for each job. This option is useful if there are several jobs
> 		which are intended to operate on a file in parallel in disjoint
> 		segments, with even spacing between the starting points.

This looks good. "Fixing" the math situation would be a bit more
involved, though cool if we had support for doing arbitrary math.

I have applied this, thanks Daniel!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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