Revision History
Revision
Release Date Originator Comments
May-2009
Jonathan
Thatcher
• Initial proposal in SSS TWG
• Initial Draft Outline
Jun-2009 Eden Kim
• Added material re: Definitions, Reference Platform, Test
Definitions/Procedures, etc.
• Content contributions from Eden Kim, Phil Mills, Easen Ho, Dave
0.0.0 Jul-7-2009 Dave Landsman
• Major restructure to get overall document sections/styles in place for
serious editing and 1
st
full committee review.
• Incorporated Calypso material.
• Added section on Performance Index
• Re-wrote Scope & Introduction
0.0.1 Jul-15-2009 Dave Landsman
• Merged Jonathan Thatcher draft.
• Merged Chuck Paridon definitions
• Merged Chuck Paridon test flow (Annex)
• Further general restructuring/editing.
0.0.2 Aug-4-2009 Dave Landsman
• Updated Preconditioning and Test sections per Jul 20-22 F2F.
• Integrated Logical/Physical Address conventions into Definitions.
• Other general stylistic and editorial changes.
0.1 Sep-23-2009 Dave Landsman
• Changed versioning to x.y, from x.y.z
• Miscellaneous edits in Sections 3 & 4
• Revised Section 5 (Preconditioning) for clarity
• Flipped “for loop” in IOPS test (Sec. 6.2)
• Added QD=1for IOPS test (Sec. 6)
• Edited “Alternative Extended IOPS Test” (Section 6.6)
• Added graphic for RPT spec (Annex A)
• Added rough latency example to sample report (Annex B)
0.3 Dec-2-2009 Dave Landsman
• Based on slide version of spec (2009-10-23).
major restructure; this is clean version.
• Removed previous Preconditioning sections.
• Restructured tests with suite of Client (Sections 6-8) and Enterprise
(Sections 9-11) tests.
• Removed “Idle Test”.
• Revised general flow of tests, plus types of reports.
• Added new section (Section 5) to provide informative overview of test
flow, and other key concepts/definitions.
0.4 Dec-12-2009 Dave Landsman
• Clean version; no change bars
• Changed “Active Use State” to “Steady State”
• Completely revised Section 5 for better flow.
• Added new 6 & 7 as prefaces to actual test sections.
• Changed basic test flow to incorporate methodology where
convergence to Steady State must be detected AND maintained for
duration of test.
• Updated Latency test loop parameters and report proposal per
discussions w/ Gary Kotzur.
0.5 Feb-27-2010 Dave Landsman
Incorporated TWG changes from V0.4
• Updated section 1.2 for better background
• Updated 1.4 with notes on App Testing and Reference Platform
• Updated 2.1 with new/modified definitions (steady state, OIO, etc.)
• Updated 4, in particular 4.2 with test tools requirements.
• Completely
rewrote/restructured Informative Section 5, including notes
on Data Patterns and IO demand (QD/TC). More complete
explanations of Steady State, Detecting Steady State, etc.
• Rewrote Section 6 to provide better intro to detailed test flow.
• Edited all tests per comments in TWG.
• Deleted sample test report in appendix because need to remove
company identification from the sample and a Word bug made it
impossible to remove just the name/logo. Will add back later.
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