zipf is a power law probability distribution. When
applied to performance testing of block devices, it
will select blocks over the full range of LBAs, but
will more frequently select lower-numbered LBAs.
The theta parameter governs the distribution - higher
values of theta will concentrate the distribution on
a smaller number of LBAs.
Note that fio supports zipf, so adding it to SPDK
will enable our perf tools (bdevperf, nvme-perf) to
provide similar functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
Change-Id: I7df129c9d61996a2070188c6cd9f1fde631ac208
Reviewed-on: https://review.spdk.io/gerrit/c/spdk/spdk/+/7779
Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins <sys_sgci@intel.com>
Community-CI: Broadcom CI
Community-CI: Mellanox Build Bot
Reviewed-by: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuhei Matsumoto <shuhei.matsumoto.xt@hitachi.com>
