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Tools for running suites of tests with fio, capturing the output, then generating reports.

This tool establishes and automates a few conventions for managing tests with the goal of making those tests manageable and repeatable.

effio only supports fio 2.1.9. Later versions write one logfile per job which is not supported for merging yet.

./effio make -id 2014-05-07 \
           -dev ./conf/machines/brak.tobert.org.json \
           -fio ./conf/fio_disk_latency \
           -path ./out

All arguments are required. This command takes a set of fio configuration and a JSON file defining the devices to be tested and produces a new tree of files containing all of the data required to run the suite. The tests are a cartesian product of all fio configs x all devices in the json.

Fio configuration files are run through text/template with data from the device and other derived strings available.

• -id string a unique id for the generated suite, should be a suitable directory name
• -path dir the suite will be written under this dir with id as the first entry
• -dev file.json a file populated with device information, documented below
• -fio dir a directory containing fio configuration files

The directory structure will look something like this, given -id 'ID', the device json below, and one fio test in the -fio dir, dir/rand_512b_write_iops.fio.

path/
    ID/
        suite.json    # a dump of all information related to the suite
        rand_512b_write_iops-samsung_840_pro_256/
          config.fio  # the fio configuration file
          test.json   # a dump of all data used to generate this test
          output.json # json output from fio --output-format=json
          run.sh      # the exact command used to run fio

The JSON device file is an array of devices and some relevant data. e.g.

Check out the example file

[
   {
     "name":       "samsung_840_pro_256",
     "device":     "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_840_PRO_Series_S1ATNEAD541857W",
     "mountpoint": "/mnt/sda",
     "filesystem": "ext4",
     "brand":      "Samsung",
     "series":     "840 PRO",
     "capacity":   256060514304,
     "rotational": false,
     "transport":  "SATA",
     "hba":        "AHCI",
     "media":      "MLC",
     "blocksize":  512
   }
]