.TP
.BI ioscheduler \fR=\fPstr
Attempt to switch the device hosting the file to the specified I/O scheduler
-before running.
+before running. If the file is a pipe, a character device file or if device
+hosting the file could not be determined, this option is ignored.
.TP
.BI create_serialize \fR=\fPbool
If true, serialize the file creation for the jobs. This may be handy to
times before generating a new offset.
.RE
.TP
-.BI unified_rw_reporting \fR=\fPbool
+.BI unified_rw_reporting \fR=\fPstr
Fio normally reports statistics on a per data direction basis, meaning that
-reads, writes, and trims are accounted and reported separately. If this
-option is set fio sums the results and report them as "mixed" instead.
+reads, writes, and trims are accounted and reported separately. This option
+determines whether fio reports the results normally, summed together, or as
+both options.
+Accepted values are:
+.RS
+.TP
+.B none
+Normal statistics reporting.
+.TP
+.B mixed
+Statistics are summed per data direction and reported together.
+.TP
+.B both
+Statistics are reported normally, followed by the mixed statistics.
+.TP
+.B 0
+Backward-compatible alias for \fBnone\fR.
+.TP
+.B 1
+Backward-compatible alias for \fBmixed\fR.
+.TP
+.B 2
+Alias for \fBboth\fR.
+.RE
.TP
.BI randrepeat \fR=\fPbool
Seed the random number generator used for random I/O patterns in a
and 'nrfiles', so that files will be created.
This engine is to measure file lookup and meta data access.
.TP
+.B filedelete
+Simply delete files by unlink() and do no I/O to the file. You need to set 'filesize'
+and 'nrfiles', so that files will be created.
+This engine is to measure file delete.
+.TP
.B libpmem
Read and write using mmap I/O to a file on a filesystem
mounted with DAX on a persistent memory device through the PMDK
I/O without transferring buffers between user-space and the kernel,
unless \fBverify\fR is set or \fBcuda_io\fR is \fBposix\fR. \fBiomem\fR must
not be \fBcudamalloc\fR. This ioengine defines engine specific options.
+.TP
+.B dfs
+I/O engine supporting asynchronous read and write operations to the DAOS File
+System (DFS) via libdfs.
.SS "I/O engine specific parameters"
In addition, there are some parameters which are only valid when a specific
\fBioengine\fR is in use. These are used identically to normal parameters,
this will be the starting port number since fio will use a range of
ports.
.TP
-.BI (rdma)port
+.BI (rdma, librpma_*)port
The port to use for RDMA-CM communication. This should be the same
value on the client and the server side.
.TP
If the job is a TCP listener or UDP reader, the hostname is not used
and must be omitted unless it is a valid UDP multicast address.
.TP
+.BI (librpma_*)serverip \fR=\fPstr
+The IP address to be used for RDMA-CM based I/O.
+.TP
+.BI (librpma_*_server)direct_write_to_pmem \fR=\fPbool
+Set to 1 only when Direct Write to PMem from the remote host is possible. Otherwise, set to 0.
+.TP
.BI (netsplice,net)interface \fR=\fPstr
The IP address of the network interface used to send or receive UDP
multicast.
Poll store instead of waiting for completion. Usually this provides better
throughput at cost of higher(up to 100%) CPU utilization.
.TP
+.BI (rados)touch_objects \fR=\fPbool
+During initialization, touch (create if do not exist) all objects (files).
+Touching all objects affects ceph caches and likely impacts test results.
+Enabled by default.
+.TP
.BI (http)http_host \fR=\fPstr
Hostname to connect to. For S3, this could be the bucket name. Default
is \fBlocalhost\fR
the use of cudaMemcpy.
.RE
.RE
+.TP
+.BI (dfs)pool
+Specify the UUID of the DAOS pool to connect to.
+.TP
+.BI (dfs)cont
+Specify the UUID of the DAOS DAOS container to open.
+.TP
+.BI (dfs)chunk_size
+Specificy a different chunk size (in bytes) for the dfs file.
+Use DAOS container's chunk size by default.
+.TP
+.BI (dfs)object_class
+Specificy a different object class for the dfs file.
+Use DAOS container's object class by default.
.SS "I/O depth"
.TP
.BI iodepth \fR=\fPint
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