[Pvfs2-developers] Small I/O - Write response doesn't fill in total_completed

Rob Ross rross at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Feb 22 18:14:53 EST 2006


nevermind - i'm not reading carefully. -- rob

Robert Latham wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:22:35PM -0600, Avery Ching wrote:
>> Sure.  I'm actually have a single client just doing a small contiguous
>> write of 50 bytes.  But I think it occurs for pretty much any small I/O
>> operation I do.  It seems to happen with any amount of PVFS2 servers.
>> Both the memory request and file request structures are contig I think.
>> The total_completed isn't filled in during the write.  I think it
>> happens also during the read (althought I'm not quite sure on that).
>> I'm using the HEAD CVS version, (just did an update this morning).
> 
> Avery,
> 
> can you send me your benchmark?  One of our nightly tests is a
> noncontiguous benchmark that writes small little 2k pieces out to a
> file exercising {noncontig,contig} in {memory,file}, and that test has
> been passing for a while now (since we fixed the immediate completion
> for zero-length io case).
> 
> If you've found a bug, we'll have to beef up our noncontiguous and
> small i/o test cases.
> 
> ==rob
> 


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