$clientuid keyword to differentiate clients in client/server mode.

[fio.git] / HOWTO

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@@ -809,6 +809,8 @@ Target file/device
 
                **$jobname**
                                The name of the worker thread or process.
+               **$clientuid**
+                               IP of the fio process when using client/server mode.
                **$jobnum**
                                The incremental number of the worker thread or process.
                **$filenum**
@@ -2359,6 +2361,18 @@ with the caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the
                transferred to the device. The writefua option is ignored with this
                selection.
 
+.. option:: hipri : [sg]
+
+       If this option is set, fio will attempt to use polled IO completions.
+       This will have a similar effect as (io_uring)hipri. Only SCSI READ and
+       WRITE commands will have the SGV4_FLAG_HIPRI set (not UNMAP (trim) nor
+       VERIFY). Older versions of the Linux sg driver that do not support
+       hipri will simply ignore this flag and do normal IO. The Linux SCSI
+       Low Level Driver (LLD) that "owns" the device also needs to support
+       hipri (also known as iopoll and mq_poll). The MegaRAID driver is an
+       example of a SCSI LLD. Default: clear (0) which does normal
+       (interrupted based) IO.
+
 .. option:: http_host=str : [http]
 
        Hostname to connect to. For S3, this could be the bucket hostname.
@@ -2562,6 +2576,13 @@ I/O rate
        before we have to complete it and do our :option:`thinktime`. In other words, this
        setting effectively caps the queue depth if the latter is larger.
 
+.. option:: thinktime_blocks_type=str
+
+       Only valid if :option:`thinktime` is set - control how :option:`thinktime_blocks`
+       triggers. The default is `complete`, which triggers thinktime when fio completes
+       :option:`thinktime_blocks` blocks. If this is set to `issue`, then the trigger happens
+       at the issue side.
+
 .. option:: rate=int[,int][,int]
 
        Cap the bandwidth used by this job. The number is in bytes/sec, the normal