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| author | Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> | 2016-06-03 13:59:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> | 2016-06-08 10:21:09 +0200 |
| commit | 55d539c8f75abab70301a43d8c94b976f6ddc358 (patch) | |
| tree | d565d50193f90066146e9dfbcb7bc7fedec80993 /qemu-img.texi | |
| parent | 83de9be0dc59439ec6f97f58c8e9015b4fdc3010 (diff) | |
qemu-img bench: Add --flush-interval
This options allows to flush the image periodically during write tests.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-img.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-img.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi index ccc0b519ba..cbe50e9b88 100644 --- a/qemu-img.texi +++ b/qemu-img.texi @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Skip the creation of the target volume Command description: @table @option -@item bench [-c @var{count}] [-d @var{depth}] [-f @var{fmt}] [-n] [-o @var{offset}] [--pattern=@var{pattern}] [-q] [-s @var{buffer_size}] [-S @var{step_size}] [-t @var{cache}] [-w] @var{filename} +@item bench [-c @var{count}] [-d @var{depth}] [-f @var{fmt}] [--flush-interval=@var{flush_interval}] [-n] [--no-drain] [-o @var{offset}] [--pattern=@var{pattern}] [-q] [-s @var{buffer_size}] [-S @var{step_size}] [-t @var{cache}] [-w] @var{filename} Run a simple sequential I/O benchmark on the specified image. If @code{-w} is specified, a write test is performed, otherwise a read test is performed. @@ -142,6 +142,12 @@ starts at the position given by @var{offset}, each following request increases the current position by @var{step_size}. If @var{step_size} is not given, @var{buffer_size} is used for its value. +If @var{flush_interval} is specified for a write test, the request queue is +drained and a flush is issued before new writes are made whenever the number of +remaining requests is a multiple of @var{flush_interval}. If additionally +@code{--no-drain} is specified, a flush is issued without draining the request +queue first. + If @code{-n} is specified, the native AIO backend is used if possible. On Linux, this option only works if @code{-t none} or @code{-t directsync} is specified as well. |