Mention what the [ xxx / xxx kb/s ] means in the status output

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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@@ -697,9 +697,10 @@ E          Thread exited, not reaped by main thread yet.
 _              Thread reaped.
 
 The other values are fairly self explanatory - number of threads
-currently running and doing io, rate of io since last check, and the estimated
-completion percentage and time for the running group. It's impossible to
-estimate runtime of the following groups (if any).
+currently running and doing io, rate of io since last check (read speed
+listed first, then write speed), and the estimated completion percentage
+and time for the running group. It's impossible to estimate runtime of
+the following groups (if any).
 
 When fio is done (or interrupted by ctrl-c), it will show the data for
 each thread, group of threads, and disks in that order. For each data