[RFC v1 0/1] nvme testsuite runtime optimization

[Daniel Wagner]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:24:15AM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 09:11:33PM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> > >> Those jobs are meant to be run for at least 1G to establish
> > >> confidence on the data set and the system under test since SSDs
> > >> are in TBs nowadays and we don't even get anywhere close to that,
> > >> with your suggestion we are going even lower ...
> > >
> > > Where does the 1G boundary coming from?
> > >
> >
> > I wrote these testcases 3 times, initially they were the part of
> > nvme-cli tests7-8 years ago, then nvmftests 7-6 years ago, then they
> > moved to blktests.
> > 
> > In that time some of the testcases would not fail on with small size
> > such as less than 512MB especially with verification but they were
> > in the errors with 1G Hence I kept to be 1G.
> > 
> > Now I don't remember why I didn't use bigger size than 1G
> > should have documented that somewhere ...
> 
> Can you remember why you chosed to set the image size to 1G and the io size for
> fio to 950m in nvme/012 and nvme/013?

forget it, found a commit message which explains it

e5bd71872b3b ("nvme/012,013,035: change fio I/O size and move size definition place")
  [...]
  Change fio I/O size of nvme/012,013,035 from 950m to 900m, since recent change
  increased the xfs log size and it caused fio failure with I/O size 950m.