time_based: Avoid restarting main I/O loop
Previously, when fio had written a volume of I/O equal to the size
argument, it restarted the main do_io loop.
This patch allows time_based tests to be run for longer than one
cycle in the do_io main loop. This has a couple of advantages:
* The random number generator is not reset on each iteration
of the loop, so running longer will reach different locations.
* There is not a throughput-reducing point where all operations
must be reaped before new operations are submitted.
The implementation consists of two minor changes:
* In the do_io loop, a time_based test will not exit the loop for
reading or writing too much data.
* When reading or writing sequentially, the operations wrap around
to the beginning after reading the end within the
get_next_seq_block function.
Modified by Jens to properly restart when using a randommap
as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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