Re: [Qemu-devel] [PACH] qemu-io - an I/O path exerciser

[Avi Kivity]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This patch adds a new qemu-io tool that links against the block layer and
> image formats and allow to exercise them without needing a guest image.
>
> It is inspired by the xfs_io tool which does the same for plain file I/O.
> In fact the libxcmd library which is the backend of xfs_io is reused by
> this tool in a cutdown fashing.
>
> In the future I'll add more commands to exercise the other bdrv methods.
> This tool is the basis of the I/O path test suite I'm working.
>
>   

Testing aio cancellations would be a good addition to this.  
Cancellations are very rare, and in fact are broken right now.

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