Update bandwidth log documentation

The behavior of --bandwidth-log and write_bw_log has changed multiple
times, but the documentation hasn't been updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

diff --git a/README b/README
index a69a57891bd2f7c72f80fd8f0b781f33cd089a8b..a8a4fdf3d07960d44c1c7ae8eeff85b3ab2550b0 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ $ fio
        --parse-only            Parse options only, don't start any IO
        --output                Write output to file
        --runtime               Runtime in seconds
-       --bandwidth-log         Generate per-job bandwidth logs
+       --bandwidth-log         Generate aggregate bandwidth logs
        --minimal               Minimal (terse) output
        --output-format=type    Output format (terse,json,json+,normal)
        --terse-version=type    Terse version output format (default 3, or 2 or 4).

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 8d596fb19105df2e6b3aabcbda171cf462f3157e..48c2060209be0ec333a666a134b5677f011c0c94 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dump of the latency buckets.
 Limit run time to \fIruntime\fR seconds.
 .TP
 .B \-\-bandwidth\-log
-Generate per-job bandwidth logs.
+Generate aggregate bandwidth logs.
 .TP
 .B \-\-minimal
 Print statistics in a terse, semicolon-delimited format.
@@ -1462,13 +1462,13 @@ If set, this generates bw/clat/iops log with per file private filenames. If
 not set, jobs with identical names will share the log filename. Default: true.
 .TP
 .BI write_bw_log \fR=\fPstr
-If given, write a bandwidth log of the jobs in this job file. Can be used to
-store data of the bandwidth of the jobs in their lifetime. The included
-fio_generate_plots script uses gnuplot to turn these text files into nice
-graphs. See \fBwrite_lat_log\fR for behaviour of given filename. For this
-option, the postfix is _bw.x.log, where x is the index of the job (1..N,
-where N is the number of jobs). If \fBper_job_logs\fR is false, then the
-filename will not include the job index. See the \fBLOG FILE FORMATS\fR
+If given, write a bandwidth log for this job. Can be used to store data of the
+bandwidth of the jobs in their lifetime. The included fio_generate_plots script
+uses gnuplot to turn these text files into nice graphs. See \fBwrite_lat_log\fR
+for behaviour of given filename. For this option, the postfix is _bw.x.log,
+where x is the index of the job (1..N, where N is the number of jobs). If
+\fBper_job_logs\fR is false, then the filename will not include the job index.
+See the \fBLOG FILE FORMATS\fR
 section.
 .TP
 .BI write_lat_log \fR=\fPstr

diff --git a/init.c b/init.c
index f041acda17e7a4206828b1612bb95f5003782520..d8c0bd17a9bccb024cbf26972dc39037bc6139fa 100644 (file)
--- a/init.c
+++ b/init.c
@@ -2005,7 +2005,7 @@ static void usage(const char *name)
        printf("  --parse-only\t\tParse options only, don't start any IO\n");
        printf("  --output\t\tWrite output to file\n");
        printf("  --runtime\t\tRuntime in seconds\n");
-       printf("  --bandwidth-log\tGenerate per-job bandwidth logs\n");
+       printf("  --bandwidth-log\tGenerate aggregate bandwidth logs\n");
        printf("  --minimal\t\tMinimal (terse) output\n");
        printf("  --output-format=x\tOutput format (terse,json,json+,normal)\n");
        printf("  --terse-version=x\tSet terse version output format to 'x'\n");