Collect a block-wise histogram of trim and write errors

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 0164f42b958a574f4340427b4e3b73a173e8e06d..0f66b3a732f0c66dcf09955defe7ae0a9383ef04 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -1292,6 +1292,11 @@ a compressed format. They can be decompressed with fio, using the
 \fB\-\-inflate-log\fR command line parameter. The files will be stored with a
 \fB\.fz\fR suffix.
 .TP
+.BI block_error_percentiles \fR=\fPbool
+If set, record errors in trim block-sized units from writes and trims and output
+a histogram of how many trims it took to get to errors, and what kind of error
+was encountered.
+.TP
 .BI disable_lat \fR=\fPbool
 Disable measurements of total latency numbers. Useful only for cutting
 back the number of calls to \fBgettimeofday\fR\|(2), as that does impact performance at
@@ -1450,9 +1455,9 @@ exceeded before retrying operations
 Enable the reporting of percentiles of completion latencies.
 .TP
 .BI percentile_list \fR=\fPfloat_list
-Overwrite the default list of percentiles for completion
-latencies. Each number is a floating number in the range (0,100], and
-the maximum length of the list is 20. Use ':' to separate the
+Overwrite the default list of percentiles for completion latencies and the
+block error histogram. Each number is a floating number in the range (0,100],
+and the maximum length of the list is 20. Use ':' to separate the
 numbers. For example, \-\-percentile_list=99.5:99.9 will cause fio to
 report the values of completion latency below which 99.5% and 99.9% of
 the observed latencies fell, respectively.