[Disksim-users] How to handle all synthio requests before disksim stops

[GuoXufeng]

 Hello:
     I found a phenomenon that is when using synthetic workloads, the actual handled requests may be less than generated request amount. For example, I configured "Number of I/O requests to generate" to 10000 and "Maximum time of trace generated" to 100000. I add printf in the ssd_event_arrive function to see the actual coming requests. What I finally found is a big surprise: only 5575 requests come to the ssd_event_arrive.
     Then I checked the code and found that in the function "synthio_generate_io_activity" of "disksym_synthio.c", disksim_simstop() will be invoked once the generated requests exceed 10000. At this moment, the generated requests have no time to be transferred to ssd_event_arrive and then simulation is over. The problem is that when I compare two methods using sythetic workloads, the actual handled request amount may be different even though the configurations are identical.
     So I want to ask what I can do if I want to get all the generated requests to be handled. I found a way: first print the generated requests and then use these requests as the external trace to disksim. However, this method seems a little ugly. Can anybody help me?
     Thank you very much!
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