On Apr 18, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Atchley, Scott wrote:

> On Apr 18, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Wendy Cheng <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Spencer Shepler
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Note that SPEC SFS does not support RDMA.
>>> 
>> 
>> IIRC, the benchmark comes with source code - wondering anyone has
>> modified it to run on RDMA ?  Or is there any real user to share the
>> experience ?
> 
> I am not familiar with SpecSFS, but if it exercises the filesystem, it does 
> not know which RPC layer that NFS uses, no? Or does it implement its own 
> client and directly access the RPC layer?


Yes, the SPEC SFS benchmark implements  its own NFSv3 client, RPC layer, etc.

Spencer

> 
>> 
>> -- Wendy
>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Wendy Cheng
>>> Sent: 4/18/2013 9:16 AM
>>> To: Yan Burman
>>> Cc: Atchley, Scott; J. Bruce Fields; Tom Tucker; [email protected];
>>> [email protected]; Or Gerlitz
>>> 
>>> Subject: Re: NFS over RDMA benchmark
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Yan Burman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> What do you suggest for benchmarking NFS?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I believe SPECsfs has been widely used by NFS (server) vendors to
>>> position their product lines. Its workload was based on a real life
>>> NFS deployment. I think it is more torward office type of workload
>>> (large client/user count with smaller file sizes e.g. software
>>> development with build, compile, etc).
>>> 
>>> BTW, we're experimenting a similar project and would be interested to
>>> know your findings.
>>> 
>>> -- Wendy
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