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Fix clat-percentile accuracy in fio #1503

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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions perfmetrics/scripts/fio/install_fio.sh
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Expand Up @@ -32,10 +32,17 @@ echo "Installing fio ..."
sudo apt-get install -y libaio-dev

# We are building fio from source because of the issue: https://github.com/axboe/fio/issues/1668.
# The sed command below is to address internal bug#309563824.
# As recorded in this bug, fio by-default supports
# clat percentile values to be calculated accurately upto only
# 2^(FIO_IO_U_PLAT_GROUP_NR + 5) ns = 14 ms
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# (with default value of FIO_IO_U_PLAT_GROUP_NR = 29). This change increases it upto 32, to allow
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# latencies upto 112 ms to be calculated accurately.
sudo rm -rf "$FIO_SRC_DIR" && \
git clone https://github.com/axboe/fio.git "$FIO_SRC_DIR" && \
cd "$FIO_SRC_DIR" && \
git checkout fio-3.36 && \
sed -i 's/define \+FIO_IO_U_PLAT_GROUP_NR \+\([0-9]\+\)/define FIO_IO_U_PLAT_GROUP_NR 32/g' stat.h && \
./configure && make && sudo make install

# Now, print the installed fio version for verification
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