HOWTO: fix unit type suffix in "Parameter types" section

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@@ -505,19 +505,19 @@ Parameter types
        prefixes.  To specify power-of-10 decimal values defined in the
        International System of Units (SI):
 
-               * *Ki* -- means kilo (K) or 1000
-               * *Mi* -- means mega (M) or 1000**2
-               * *Gi* -- means giga (G) or 1000**3
-               * *Ti* -- means tera (T) or 1000**4
-               * *Pi* -- means peta (P) or 1000**5
+               * *ki* -- means kilo (K) or 1000
+               * *mi* -- means mega (M) or 1000**2
+               * *gi* -- means giga (G) or 1000**3
+               * *ti* -- means tera (T) or 1000**4
+               * *pi* -- means peta (P) or 1000**5
 
        To specify power-of-2 binary values defined in IEC 80000-13:
 
                * *k* -- means kibi (Ki) or 1024
-               * *M* -- means mebi (Mi) or 1024**2
-               * *G* -- means gibi (Gi) or 1024**3
-               * *T* -- means tebi (Ti) or 1024**4
-               * *P* -- means pebi (Pi) or 1024**5
+               * *m* -- means mebi (Mi) or 1024**2
+               * *g* -- means gibi (Gi) or 1024**3
+               * *t* -- means tebi (Ti) or 1024**4
+               * *p* -- means pebi (Pi) or 1024**5
 
        With :option:`kb_base`\=1024 (the default), the unit prefixes are opposite
        from those specified in the SI and IEC 80000-13 standards to provide
@@ -1529,6 +1529,7 @@ Buffers and memory
 
                **cudamalloc**
                        Use GPU memory as the buffers for GPUDirect RDMA benchmark.
+                       The ioengine must be rdma.
 
        The area allocated is a function of the maximum allowed bs size for the job,
        multiplied by the I/O depth given. Note that for **shmhuge** and
@@ -1857,7 +1858,7 @@ caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the
 
    [libhdfs]
 
-               the listening port of the HFDS cluster namenode.
+               The listening port of the HFDS cluster namenode.
 
 .. option:: interface=str : [netsplice] [net]
 
@@ -1930,7 +1931,7 @@ caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the
        **0**
                Default. Preallocate donor's file on init.
        **1**
-               Allocate space immediately inside defragment event,     and free right
+               Allocate space immediately inside defragment event, and free right
                after event.
 
 .. option:: clustername=str : [rbd]
@@ -1962,7 +1963,7 @@ caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the
 
 .. option:: chunk_size : [libhdfs]
 
-       the size of the chunk to use for each file.
+       The size of the chunk to use for each file.
 
 
 I/O depth
@@ -2486,7 +2487,7 @@ Verification
 
 .. option:: verifysort_nr=int
 
-   Pre-load and sort verify blocks for a read workload.
+       Pre-load and sort verify blocks for a read workload.
 
 .. option:: verify_offset=int