[PATCH REPOST blktests v2 7/9] nvme-rc: Calculate IO size for fio jobs

[Shinichiro Kawasaki]

On Apr 21, 2023 / 08:05, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> Introduce two new function to calculate the IO size for fio jobs.
> 
> _nvme_calc_io_size() returns the jobs size for _run_fio_verify_io()
> function. Reduce the max size of the job by one megabyte to make the
> test more robust not to run out of space by accident. Note these fio
> calls run with just one jobs.

It is not clear for me what kind of issue happens without the 1MB decrement.
Could you share failure symptoms you observed?

> 
> _nvme_calc_run_io_size() returns the jobs size for _run_fio_rand_io()
> function. Again, the jobs size is not maxing out the space and most
> important it takes the number of jobs into account which are
> created (number of CPUs).

This patch has two purposes, similar but different. It would be the better to
separate them.