From 21f5b652331859abc528964759fc9d7ae525c38f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriela Cervantes Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:32:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] metrics: Add FIO information in storage general README This PR adds FIO information in storage general README. Signed-off-by: Gabriela Cervantes --- tests/metrics/storage/README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/metrics/storage/README.md b/tests/metrics/storage/README.md index b9d1cc68a4..305c7e227d 100644 --- a/tests/metrics/storage/README.md +++ b/tests/metrics/storage/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,27 @@ # Kata Containers storage I/O tests + The metrics tests in this directory are designed to be used to assess storage IO. + ## `Blogbench` test + The `blogbench` script is based on the `blogbench` program which is designed to emulate a busy blog server with a number of concurrent threads performing a mixture of reads, writes and rewrites. + ### Running the `blogbench` test + The `blogbench` test can be run by hand, for example: ``` $ cd metrics $ bash storage/blogbench.sh ``` +## `fio` test + +The `fio` test utilises the [fio tool](https://github.com/axboe/fio), configured +to perform measurements upon a single test file. + +The test configuration used by the script can be modified by setting a number of +environment variables to change or over-ride the test defaults. + +## DAX `virtio-fs` `fio` Kubernetes tests + +[Test](fio-k8s/README.md) to compare the use of DAX option in `virtio-fs`.