Pre-load and sort random blocks for pure read verify workloads
If fio is run with a write phase before a read phase and the
IO type is random, the end read verify phase will get sorted
blocks to read back. But if fio is asked to verify something
that was previously randomly written, it will generate the
same random offsets in random order and verify those. This is
usually much slower than a sorted read back.
So add a verifysort_nr option that allows the user to specify
a number of random offsets to pre-generate and sort, before
reading them and verifying the contents. This greatly speeds
up pure read verify workloads.
Default to 1024, and put a max of 64K entries on the option.
We do a merge list sort on the entries, so we don't want a
huge amount of backlog.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/options.c b/options.c
index 3a406fa..1760762 100644
--- a/options.c
+++ b/options.c
@@ -1887,6 +1887,16 @@
.parent = "verify",
},
{
+ .name = "verifysort_nr",
+ .type = FIO_OPT_INT,
+ .off1 = td_var_offset(verifysort_nr),
+ .help = "Pre-load and sort verify blocks for a read workload",
+ .minval = 0,
+ .maxval = 131072,
+ .def = "1024",
+ .parent = "verify",
+ },
+ {
.name = "verify_interval",
.type = FIO_OPT_INT,
.off1 = td_var_offset(verify_interval),