It is the sum of submission and completion latency.
**bw**
- Bandwidth statistics based on samples. Same names as the xlat stats,
- but also includes the number of samples taken (**samples**) and an
- approximate percentage of total aggregate bandwidth this thread
- received in its group (**per**). This last value is only really
- useful if the threads in this group are on the same disk, since they
- are then competing for disk access.
+ Bandwidth statistics based on measurements from discrete
+ intervals. Fio continuously monitors bytes transferred and I/O
+ operations completed. By default fio calculates bandwidth in
+ each half-second interval (see :option:`bwavgtime`) and reports
+ descriptive statistics for the measurements here. Same names as
+ the xlat stats, but also includes the number of samples taken
+ (**samples**) and an approximate percentage of total aggregate
+ bandwidth this thread received in its group (**per**). This
+ last value is only really useful if the threads in this group
+ are on the same disk, since they are then competing for disk
+ access.
**iops**
- IOPS statistics based on samples. Same names as bw.
+ IOPS statistics based on measurements from discrete intervals.
+ For details see the description for bw above. See
+ :option:`iopsavgtime` to control the duration of the intervals.
+ Same values reported here as for bw except for percentage.
**lat (nsec/usec/msec)**
The distribution of I/O completion latencies. This is the time from when
when fio created the I/O unit to completion of the I/O operation.
.TP
.B bw
-Bandwidth statistics based on samples. Same names as the xlat stats,
-but also includes the number of samples taken (\fIsamples\fR) and an
-approximate percentage of total aggregate bandwidth this thread
-received in its group (\fIper\fR). This last value is only really
-useful if the threads in this group are on the same disk, since they
-are then competing for disk access.
+Bandwidth statistics based on measurements from discrete intervals. Fio
+continuosly monitors bytes transferred and I/O operations completed. By default
+fio calculates bandwidth in each half-second interval (see \fBbwavgtime\fR)
+and reports descriptive statistics for the measurements here. Same names as the
+xlat stats, but also includes the number of samples taken (\fIsamples\fR) and an
+approximate percentage of total aggregate bandwidth this thread received in its
+group (\fIper\fR). This last value is only really useful if the threads in this
+group are on the same disk, since they are then competing for disk access.
.TP
.B iops
-IOPS statistics based on samples. Same names as \fBbw\fR.
+IOPS statistics based on measurements from discrete intervals.
+For details see the description for \fBbw\fR above. See
+\fBiopsavgtime\fR to control the duration of the intervals.
+Same values reported here as for \fBbw\fR except for percentage.
.TP
.B lat (nsec/usec/msec)
The distribution of I/O completion latencies. This is the time from when