v1.10.0

v1.10.0

External contributions:

• Re-write flag_util_test.py so it's easier to read (thanks @yilei GH-1244)
• Fix bug that prevents running bonnie++ on Azure (thanks @rgodha GH-1218)
• Add kernel compile benchmark (thanks @maggiejiao GH-1215, GH-1255)
• Change the documentation to reflect that work should be on master (thanks
  @besanradwan GH-1209)
• Add flags to capture latency, bandwidth and IOPS logs in Fio benchmark (thanks @meteorfox GH-1205)
• Re-add 'vm_util' object to fix broken master branch (thanks @vhe182 GH-1196)
• Add EPEL Repo to Silo Installation (thanks @akrzos GH-1153)

New features:

• Add GPU PCIe bandwidth test (GH-1234, GH-1250, GH-1252, GH-1254)
• Add blazemark (GH-1145)
• Add simple memcached ycsb benchmark based on aerospike ycsb benchmark (GH-1199)
• Add scimark2 installation package (GH-1185)

Enhancements:

• Use FLAGS.aws_user_name if set for Rhel (GH-1249)
• Fio enhancements (GH-1246)
• Use aes128-ctr if aes128-cbc isn't available (GH-1242)
• Make aeropsike able to run with raw devices on static vms (GH-1243)
• Add some metadata to netperf samples (GH-1236)
• Remove unneeded Azure code and add availability sets (GH-1232)
• Add cassandra read concurrency flag (GH-1233)
• Add a metadata attribute 'ssd_count' to spark_service (GH-1229)
• Add a metadata attribute 'spark_svc_cloud' to spark_service (GH-1226)
• Add ability to specify boot_disk_size in AWS vm spec (GH-1231)
• Add a metadata attribute 'spark_svc_cloud' (GH-1236)
• Set a default zone for the spark test to allow for subnet creation (GH-1222)
• Update the location of the spark examples jar on the emr cluster (GH-1222)
• Persist package installation across reboots (GH-1185)
• Allow mongodb_ycsb to specify readahead settings (GH-1256)

Bug fixes and maintenance updates:

• Close Aersospike connection in 1 second (GH-1241)
• Fix bug with having multiple Azure data disks (GH-1223)
• Fix aws spark service (GH-1222)
• Add some git ignore entries (GH-1222)
• Fix gcs credential conflict (GH-1221)
• Fix bug with run_processes (GH-1212)
• Remove collector from RunBenchmarkTask args (GH-1210)
• Add the minimum tox version to the "tox is not installed" message (GH-1201)
• Move sysbench05plus path prefix logic into package (GH-1185)
• Fix bug with specifying Azure image (GH-1204)
• Fix two files that were failing boilerplate check (GH-1203)
• Update README.md (GH-1200)