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1 | Table of contents |
2 | ----------------- | |
3 | ||
4 | 1. Overview | |
5 | 2. How fio works | |
6 | 3. Running fio | |
7 | 4. Job file format | |
8 | 5. Detailed list of parameters | |
9 | 6. Normal output | |
10 | 7. Terse output | |
25c8b9d7 | 11 | 8. Trace file format |
43f09da1 | 12 | 9. CPU idleness profiling |
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13 | |
14 | 1.0 Overview and history | |
15 | ------------------------ | |
16 | fio was originally written to save me the hassle of writing special test | |
17 | case programs when I wanted to test a specific workload, either for | |
18 | performance reasons or to find/reproduce a bug. The process of writing | |
19 | such a test app can be tiresome, especially if you have to do it often. | |
20 | Hence I needed a tool that would be able to simulate a given io workload | |
21 | without resorting to writing a tailored test case again and again. | |
22 | ||
23 | A test work load is difficult to define, though. There can be any number | |
24 | of processes or threads involved, and they can each be using their own | |
25 | way of generating io. You could have someone dirtying large amounts of | |
26 | memory in an memory mapped file, or maybe several threads issuing | |
27 | reads using asynchronous io. fio needed to be flexible enough to | |
28 | simulate both of these cases, and many more. | |
29 | ||
30 | 2.0 How fio works | |
31 | ----------------- | |
32 | The first step in getting fio to simulate a desired io workload, is | |
33 | writing a job file describing that specific setup. A job file may contain | |
34 | any number of threads and/or files - the typical contents of the job file | |
35 | is a global section defining shared parameters, and one or more job | |
36 | sections describing the jobs involved. When run, fio parses this file | |
37 | and sets everything up as described. If we break down a job from top to | |
38 | bottom, it contains the following basic parameters: | |
39 | ||
40 | IO type Defines the io pattern issued to the file(s). | |
41 | We may only be reading sequentially from this | |
42 | file(s), or we may be writing randomly. Or even | |
43 | mixing reads and writes, sequentially or randomly. | |
44 | ||
45 | Block size In how large chunks are we issuing io? This may be | |
46 | a single value, or it may describe a range of | |
47 | block sizes. | |
48 | ||
49 | IO size How much data are we going to be reading/writing. | |
50 | ||
51 | IO engine How do we issue io? We could be memory mapping the | |
52 | file, we could be using regular read/write, we | |
d0ff85df | 53 | could be using splice, async io, syslet, or even |
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54 | SG (SCSI generic sg). |
55 | ||
6c219763 | 56 | IO depth If the io engine is async, how large a queuing |
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57 | depth do we want to maintain? |
58 | ||
59 | IO type Should we be doing buffered io, or direct/raw io? | |
60 | ||
61 | Num files How many files are we spreading the workload over. | |
62 | ||
63 | Num threads How many threads or processes should we spread | |
64 | this workload over. | |
66c098b8 | 65 | |
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66 | The above are the basic parameters defined for a workload, in addition |
67 | there's a multitude of parameters that modify other aspects of how this | |
68 | job behaves. | |
69 | ||
70 | ||
71 | 3.0 Running fio | |
72 | --------------- | |
73 | See the README file for command line parameters, there are only a few | |
74 | of them. | |
75 | ||
76 | Running fio is normally the easiest part - you just give it the job file | |
77 | (or job files) as parameters: | |
78 | ||
79 | $ fio job_file | |
80 | ||
81 | and it will start doing what the job_file tells it to do. You can give | |
82 | more than one job file on the command line, fio will serialize the running | |
83 | of those files. Internally that is the same as using the 'stonewall' | |
84 | parameter described the the parameter section. | |
85 | ||
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86 | If the job file contains only one job, you may as well just give the |
87 | parameters on the command line. The command line parameters are identical | |
88 | to the job parameters, with a few extra that control global parameters | |
89 | (see README). For example, for the job file parameter iodepth=2, the | |
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90 | mirror command line option would be --iodepth 2 or --iodepth=2. You can |
91 | also use the command line for giving more than one job entry. For each | |
92 | --name option that fio sees, it will start a new job with that name. | |
93 | Command line entries following a --name entry will apply to that job, | |
94 | until there are no more entries or a new --name entry is seen. This is | |
95 | similar to the job file options, where each option applies to the current | |
96 | job until a new [] job entry is seen. | |
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98 | fio does not need to run as root, except if the files or devices specified |
99 | in the job section requires that. Some other options may also be restricted, | |
6c219763 | 100 | such as memory locking, io scheduler switching, and decreasing the nice value. |
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101 | |
102 | ||
103 | 4.0 Job file format | |
104 | ------------------- | |
105 | As previously described, fio accepts one or more job files describing | |
106 | what it is supposed to do. The job file format is the classic ini file, | |
107 | where the names enclosed in [] brackets define the job name. You are free | |
108 | to use any ascii name you want, except 'global' which has special meaning. | |
109 | A global section sets defaults for the jobs described in that file. A job | |
110 | may override a global section parameter, and a job file may even have | |
111 | several global sections if so desired. A job is only affected by a global | |
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112 | section residing above it. If the first character in a line is a ';' or a |
113 | '#', the entire line is discarded as a comment. | |
71bfa161 | 114 | |
3c54bc46 | 115 | So let's look at a really simple job file that defines two processes, each |
b22989b9 | 116 | randomly reading from a 128MB file. |
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117 | |
118 | ; -- start job file -- | |
119 | [global] | |
120 | rw=randread | |
121 | size=128m | |
122 | ||
123 | [job1] | |
124 | ||
125 | [job2] | |
126 | ||
127 | ; -- end job file -- | |
128 | ||
129 | As you can see, the job file sections themselves are empty as all the | |
130 | described parameters are shared. As no filename= option is given, fio | |
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131 | makes up a filename for each of the jobs as it sees fit. On the command |
132 | line, this job would look as follows: | |
133 | ||
134 | $ fio --name=global --rw=randread --size=128m --name=job1 --name=job2 | |
135 | ||
71bfa161 | 136 | |
3c54bc46 | 137 | Let's look at an example that has a number of processes writing randomly |
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138 | to files. |
139 | ||
140 | ; -- start job file -- | |
141 | [random-writers] | |
142 | ioengine=libaio | |
143 | iodepth=4 | |
144 | rw=randwrite | |
145 | bs=32k | |
146 | direct=0 | |
147 | size=64m | |
148 | numjobs=4 | |
149 | ||
150 | ; -- end job file -- | |
151 | ||
152 | Here we have no global section, as we only have one job defined anyway. | |
153 | We want to use async io here, with a depth of 4 for each file. We also | |
b22989b9 | 154 | increased the buffer size used to 32KB and define numjobs to 4 to |
71bfa161 | 155 | fork 4 identical jobs. The result is 4 processes each randomly writing |
b22989b9 | 156 | to their own 64MB file. Instead of using the above job file, you could |
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157 | have given the parameters on the command line. For this case, you would |
158 | specify: | |
159 | ||
160 | $ fio --name=random-writers --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=4 --rw=randwrite --bs=32k --direct=0 --size=64m --numjobs=4 | |
71bfa161 | 161 | |
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162 | 4.1 Environment variables |
163 | ------------------------- | |
164 | ||
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165 | fio also supports environment variable expansion in job files. Any |
166 | substring of the form "${VARNAME}" as part of an option value (in other | |
167 | words, on the right of the `='), will be expanded to the value of the | |
168 | environment variable called VARNAME. If no such environment variable | |
169 | is defined, or VARNAME is the empty string, the empty string will be | |
170 | substituted. | |
171 | ||
172 | As an example, let's look at a sample fio invocation and job file: | |
173 | ||
174 | $ SIZE=64m NUMJOBS=4 fio jobfile.fio | |
175 | ||
176 | ; -- start job file -- | |
177 | [random-writers] | |
178 | rw=randwrite | |
179 | size=${SIZE} | |
180 | numjobs=${NUMJOBS} | |
181 | ; -- end job file -- | |
182 | ||
183 | This will expand to the following equivalent job file at runtime: | |
184 | ||
185 | ; -- start job file -- | |
186 | [random-writers] | |
187 | rw=randwrite | |
188 | size=64m | |
189 | numjobs=4 | |
190 | ; -- end job file -- | |
191 | ||
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192 | fio ships with a few example job files, you can also look there for |
193 | inspiration. | |
194 | ||
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195 | 4.2 Reserved keywords |
196 | --------------------- | |
197 | ||
198 | Additionally, fio has a set of reserved keywords that will be replaced | |
199 | internally with the appropriate value. Those keywords are: | |
200 | ||
201 | $pagesize The architecture page size of the running system | |
202 | $mb_memory Megabytes of total memory in the system | |
203 | $ncpus Number of online available CPUs | |
204 | ||
205 | These can be used on the command line or in the job file, and will be | |
206 | automatically substituted with the current system values when the job | |
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207 | is run. Simple math is also supported on these keywords, so you can |
208 | perform actions like: | |
209 | ||
210 | size=8*$mb_memory | |
211 | ||
212 | and get that properly expanded to 8 times the size of memory in the | |
213 | machine. | |
74929ac2 | 214 | |
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215 | |
216 | 5.0 Detailed list of parameters | |
217 | ------------------------------- | |
218 | ||
219 | This section describes in details each parameter associated with a job. | |
220 | Some parameters take an option of a given type, such as an integer or | |
221 | a string. The following types are used: | |
222 | ||
223 | str String. This is a sequence of alpha characters. | |
b09da8fa | 224 | time Integer with possible time suffix. In seconds unless otherwise |
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225 | specified, use eg 10m for 10 minutes. Accepts s/m/h for seconds, |
226 | minutes, and hours. | |
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227 | int SI integer. A whole number value, which may contain a suffix |
228 | describing the base of the number. Accepted suffixes are k/m/g/t/p, | |
229 | meaning kilo, mega, giga, tera, and peta. The suffix is not case | |
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230 | sensitive, and you may also include trailing 'b' (eg 'kb' is the same |
231 | as 'k'). So if you want to specify 4096, you could either write | |
b09da8fa | 232 | out '4096' or just give 4k. The suffixes signify base 2 values, so |
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233 | 1024 is 1k and 1024k is 1m and so on, unless the suffix is explicitly |
234 | set to a base 10 value using 'kib', 'mib', 'gib', etc. If that is the | |
235 | case, then 1000 is used as the multiplier. This can be handy for | |
236 | disks, since manufacturers generally use base 10 values when listing | |
237 | the capacity of a drive. If the option accepts an upper and lower | |
238 | range, use a colon ':' or minus '-' to separate such values. May also | |
239 | include a prefix to indicate numbers base. If 0x is used, the number | |
240 | is assumed to be hexadecimal. See irange. | |
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241 | bool Boolean. Usually parsed as an integer, however only defined for |
242 | true and false (1 and 0). | |
b09da8fa | 243 | irange Integer range with suffix. Allows value range to be given, such |
bf9a3edb | 244 | as 1024-4096. A colon may also be used as the separator, eg |
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245 | 1k:4k. If the option allows two sets of ranges, they can be |
246 | specified with a ',' or '/' delimiter: 1k-4k/8k-32k. Also see | |
f7fa2653 | 247 | int. |
83349190 | 248 | float_list A list of floating numbers, separated by a ':' character. |
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249 | |
250 | With the above in mind, here follows the complete list of fio job | |
251 | parameters. | |
252 | ||
253 | name=str ASCII name of the job. This may be used to override the | |
254 | name printed by fio for this job. Otherwise the job | |
c2b1e753 | 255 | name is used. On the command line this parameter has the |
6c219763 | 256 | special purpose of also signaling the start of a new |
c2b1e753 | 257 | job. |
71bfa161 | 258 | |
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259 | description=str Text description of the job. Doesn't do anything except |
260 | dump this text description when this job is run. It's | |
261 | not parsed. | |
262 | ||
3776041e | 263 | directory=str Prefix filenames with this directory. Used to place files |
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264 | in a different location than "./". |
265 | ||
266 | filename=str Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name, | |
267 | thread number, and file number. If you want to share | |
268 | files between threads in a job or several jobs, specify | |
ed92ac0c | 269 | a filename for each of them to override the default. If |
414c2a3e | 270 | the ioengine used is 'net', the filename is the host, port, |
0fd666bf | 271 | and protocol to use in the format of =host,port,protocol. |
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272 | See ioengine=net for more. If the ioengine is file based, you |
273 | can specify a number of files by separating the names with a | |
274 | ':' colon. So if you wanted a job to open /dev/sda and /dev/sdb | |
275 | as the two working files, you would use | |
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276 | filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. On Windows, disk devices are |
277 | accessed as \\.\PhysicalDrive0 for the first device, | |
278 | \\.\PhysicalDrive1 for the second etc. Note: Windows and | |
279 | FreeBSD prevent write access to areas of the disk containing | |
280 | in-use data (e.g. filesystems). | |
281 | If the wanted filename does need to include a colon, then | |
282 | escape that with a '\' character. For instance, if the filename | |
283 | is "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use | |
284 | filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". '-' is a reserved name, meaning | |
285 | stdin or stdout. Which of the two depends on the read/write | |
286 | direction set. | |
71bfa161 | 287 | |
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288 | opendir=str Tell fio to recursively add any file it can find in this |
289 | directory and down the file system tree. | |
290 | ||
3776041e | 291 | lockfile=str Fio defaults to not locking any files before it does |
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292 | IO to them. If a file or file descriptor is shared, fio |
293 | can serialize IO to that file to make the end result | |
294 | consistent. This is usual for emulating real workloads that | |
295 | share files. The lock modes are: | |
296 | ||
297 | none No locking. The default. | |
298 | exclusive Only one thread/process may do IO, | |
299 | excluding all others. | |
300 | readwrite Read-write locking on the file. Many | |
301 | readers may access the file at the | |
302 | same time, but writes get exclusive | |
303 | access. | |
304 | ||
d3aad8f2 | 305 | readwrite=str |
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306 | rw=str Type of io pattern. Accepted values are: |
307 | ||
308 | read Sequential reads | |
309 | write Sequential writes | |
310 | randwrite Random writes | |
311 | randread Random reads | |
10b023db | 312 | rw,readwrite Sequential mixed reads and writes |
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313 | randrw Random mixed reads and writes |
314 | ||
315 | For the mixed io types, the default is to split them 50/50. | |
316 | For certain types of io the result may still be skewed a bit, | |
211097b2 | 317 | since the speed may be different. It is possible to specify |
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318 | a number of IO's to do before getting a new offset, this is |
319 | one by appending a ':<nr>' to the end of the string given. | |
320 | For a random read, it would look like 'rw=randread:8' for | |
059b0802 | 321 | passing in an offset modifier with a value of 8. If the |
ddb754db | 322 | suffix is used with a sequential IO pattern, then the value |
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323 | specified will be added to the generated offset for each IO. |
324 | For instance, using rw=write:4k will skip 4k for every | |
325 | write. It turns sequential IO into sequential IO with holes. | |
326 | See the 'rw_sequencer' option. | |
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327 | |
328 | rw_sequencer=str If an offset modifier is given by appending a number to | |
329 | the rw=<str> line, then this option controls how that | |
330 | number modifies the IO offset being generated. Accepted | |
331 | values are: | |
332 | ||
333 | sequential Generate sequential offset | |
334 | identical Generate the same offset | |
335 | ||
336 | 'sequential' is only useful for random IO, where fio would | |
337 | normally generate a new random offset for every IO. If you | |
338 | append eg 8 to randread, you would get a new random offset for | |
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339 | every 8 IO's. The result would be a seek for only every 8 |
340 | IO's, instead of for every IO. Use rw=randread:8 to specify | |
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341 | that. As sequential IO is already sequential, setting |
342 | 'sequential' for that would not result in any differences. | |
343 | 'identical' behaves in a similar fashion, except it sends | |
344 | the same offset 8 number of times before generating a new | |
345 | offset. | |
71bfa161 | 346 | |
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347 | kb_base=int The base unit for a kilobyte. The defacto base is 2^10, 1024. |
348 | Storage manufacturers like to use 10^3 or 1000 as a base | |
349 | ten unit instead, for obvious reasons. Allow values are | |
350 | 1024 or 1000, with 1024 being the default. | |
351 | ||
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352 | unified_rw_reporting=bool Fio normally reports statistics on a per |
353 | data direction basis, meaning that read, write, and trim are | |
354 | accounted and reported separately. If this option is set, | |
355 | the fio will sum the results and report them as "mixed" | |
356 | instead. | |
357 | ||
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358 | randrepeat=bool For random IO workloads, seed the generator in a predictable |
359 | way so that results are repeatable across repetitions. | |
360 | ||
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361 | use_os_rand=bool Fio can either use the random generator supplied by the OS |
362 | to generator random offsets, or it can use it's own internal | |
363 | generator (based on Tausworthe). Default is to use the | |
364 | internal generator, which is often of better quality and | |
365 | faster. | |
366 | ||
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367 | fallocate=str Whether pre-allocation is performed when laying down files. |
368 | Accepted values are: | |
369 | ||
370 | none Do not pre-allocate space | |
371 | posix Pre-allocate via posix_fallocate() | |
372 | keep Pre-allocate via fallocate() with | |
373 | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set | |
374 | 0 Backward-compatible alias for 'none' | |
375 | 1 Backward-compatible alias for 'posix' | |
376 | ||
377 | May not be available on all supported platforms. 'keep' is only | |
378 | available on Linux.If using ZFS on Solaris this must be set to | |
379 | 'none' because ZFS doesn't support it. Default: 'posix'. | |
7bc8c2cf | 380 | |
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381 | fadvise_hint=bool By default, fio will use fadvise() to advise the kernel |
382 | on what IO patterns it is likely to issue. Sometimes you | |
383 | want to test specific IO patterns without telling the | |
384 | kernel about it, in which case you can disable this option. | |
385 | If set, fio will use POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL for sequential | |
386 | IO and POSIX_FADV_RANDOM for random IO. | |
387 | ||
f7fa2653 | 388 | size=int The total size of file io for this job. Fio will run until |
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389 | this many bytes has been transferred, unless runtime is |
390 | limited by other options (such as 'runtime', for instance). | |
3776041e | 391 | Unless specific nrfiles and filesize options are given, |
7616cafe | 392 | fio will divide this size between the available files |
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393 | specified by the job. If not set, fio will use the full |
394 | size of the given files or devices. If the the files | |
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395 | do not exist, size must be given. It is also possible to |
396 | give size as a percentage between 1 and 100. If size=20% | |
397 | is given, fio will use 20% of the full size of the given | |
398 | files or devices. | |
71bfa161 | 399 | |
f7fa2653 | 400 | filesize=int Individual file sizes. May be a range, in which case fio |
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401 | will select sizes for files at random within the given range |
402 | and limited to 'size' in total (if that is given). If not | |
403 | given, each created file is the same size. | |
404 | ||
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405 | fill_device=bool |
406 | fill_fs=bool Sets size to something really large and waits for ENOSPC (no | |
aa31f1f1 | 407 | space left on device) as the terminating condition. Only makes |
3ce9dcaf | 408 | sense with sequential write. For a read workload, the mount |
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409 | point will be filled first then IO started on the result. This |
410 | option doesn't make sense if operating on a raw device node, | |
411 | since the size of that is already known by the file system. | |
412 | Additionally, writing beyond end-of-device will not return | |
413 | ENOSPC there. | |
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415 | blocksize=int |
416 | bs=int The block size used for the io units. Defaults to 4k. Values | |
417 | can be given for both read and writes. If a single int is | |
418 | given, it will apply to both. If a second int is specified | |
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419 | after a comma, it will apply to writes only. In other words, |
420 | the format is either bs=read_and_write or bs=read,write. | |
421 | bs=4k,8k will thus use 4k blocks for reads, and 8k blocks | |
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422 | for writes. If you only wish to set the write size, you |
423 | can do so by passing an empty read size - bs=,8k will set | |
424 | 8k for writes and leave the read default value. | |
a00735e6 | 425 | |
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426 | blockalign=int |
427 | ba=int At what boundary to align random IO offsets. Defaults to | |
428 | the same as 'blocksize' the minimum blocksize given. | |
429 | Minimum alignment is typically 512b for using direct IO, | |
430 | though it usually depends on the hardware block size. This | |
431 | option is mutually exclusive with using a random map for | |
432 | files, so it will turn off that option. | |
433 | ||
d3aad8f2 | 434 | blocksize_range=irange |
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435 | bsrange=irange Instead of giving a single block size, specify a range |
436 | and fio will mix the issued io block sizes. The issued | |
437 | io unit will always be a multiple of the minimum value | |
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438 | given (also see bs_unaligned). Applies to both reads and |
439 | writes, however a second range can be given after a comma. | |
440 | See bs=. | |
a00735e6 | 441 | |
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442 | bssplit=str Sometimes you want even finer grained control of the |
443 | block sizes issued, not just an even split between them. | |
444 | This option allows you to weight various block sizes, | |
445 | so that you are able to define a specific amount of | |
446 | block sizes issued. The format for this option is: | |
447 | ||
448 | bssplit=blocksize/percentage:blocksize/percentage | |
449 | ||
450 | for as many block sizes as needed. So if you want to define | |
451 | a workload that has 50% 64k blocks, 10% 4k blocks, and | |
452 | 40% 32k blocks, you would write: | |
453 | ||
454 | bssplit=4k/10:64k/50:32k/40 | |
455 | ||
456 | Ordering does not matter. If the percentage is left blank, | |
457 | fio will fill in the remaining values evenly. So a bssplit | |
458 | option like this one: | |
459 | ||
460 | bssplit=4k/50:1k/:32k/ | |
461 | ||
462 | would have 50% 4k ios, and 25% 1k and 32k ios. The percentages | |
463 | always add up to 100, if bssplit is given a range that adds | |
464 | up to more, it will error out. | |
465 | ||
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466 | bssplit also supports giving separate splits to reads and |
467 | writes. The format is identical to what bs= accepts. You | |
468 | have to separate the read and write parts with a comma. So | |
469 | if you want a workload that has 50% 2k reads and 50% 4k reads, | |
470 | while having 90% 4k writes and 10% 8k writes, you would | |
471 | specify: | |
472 | ||
473 | bssplit=2k/50:4k/50,4k/90,8k/10 | |
474 | ||
d3aad8f2 | 475 | blocksize_unaligned |
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476 | bs_unaligned If this option is given, any byte size value within bsrange |
477 | may be used as a block range. This typically wont work with | |
478 | direct IO, as that normally requires sector alignment. | |
71bfa161 | 479 | |
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480 | zero_buffers If this option is given, fio will init the IO buffers to |
481 | all zeroes. The default is to fill them with random data. | |
482 | ||
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483 | refill_buffers If this option is given, fio will refill the IO buffers |
484 | on every submit. The default is to only fill it at init | |
485 | time and reuse that data. Only makes sense if zero_buffers | |
41ccd845 JA |
486 | isn't specified, naturally. If data verification is enabled, |
487 | refill_buffers is also automatically enabled. | |
5973cafb | 488 | |
fd68418e JA |
489 | scramble_buffers=bool If refill_buffers is too costly and the target is |
490 | using data deduplication, then setting this option will | |
491 | slightly modify the IO buffer contents to defeat normal | |
492 | de-dupe attempts. This is not enough to defeat more clever | |
493 | block compression attempts, but it will stop naive dedupe of | |
494 | blocks. Default: true. | |
495 | ||
c5751c62 JA |
496 | buffer_compress_percentage=int If this is set, then fio will attempt to |
497 | provide IO buffer content (on WRITEs) that compress to | |
498 | the specified level. Fio does this by providing a mix of | |
499 | random data and zeroes. Note that this is per block size | |
500 | unit, for file/disk wide compression level that matches | |
501 | this setting, you'll also want to set refill_buffers. | |
502 | ||
503 | buffer_compress_chunk=int See buffer_compress_percentage. This | |
504 | setting allows fio to manage how big the ranges of random | |
505 | data and zeroed data is. Without this set, fio will | |
506 | provide buffer_compress_percentage of blocksize random | |
507 | data, followed by the remaining zeroed. With this set | |
508 | to some chunk size smaller than the block size, fio can | |
509 | alternate random and zeroed data throughout the IO | |
510 | buffer. | |
511 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
512 | nrfiles=int Number of files to use for this job. Defaults to 1. |
513 | ||
390b1537 JA |
514 | openfiles=int Number of files to keep open at the same time. Defaults to |
515 | the same as nrfiles, can be set smaller to limit the number | |
516 | simultaneous opens. | |
517 | ||
5af1c6f3 JA |
518 | file_service_type=str Defines how fio decides which file from a job to |
519 | service next. The following types are defined: | |
520 | ||
521 | random Just choose a file at random. | |
522 | ||
523 | roundrobin Round robin over open files. This | |
524 | is the default. | |
525 | ||
a086c257 JA |
526 | sequential Finish one file before moving on to |
527 | the next. Multiple files can still be | |
528 | open depending on 'openfiles'. | |
529 | ||
1907dbc6 JA |
530 | The string can have a number appended, indicating how |
531 | often to switch to a new file. So if option random:4 is | |
532 | given, fio will switch to a new random file after 4 ios | |
533 | have been issued. | |
534 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
535 | ioengine=str Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following |
536 | types are defined: | |
537 | ||
538 | sync Basic read(2) or write(2) io. lseek(2) is | |
539 | used to position the io location. | |
540 | ||
a31041ea | 541 | psync Basic pread(2) or pwrite(2) io. |
542 | ||
e05af9e5 | 543 | vsync Basic readv(2) or writev(2) IO. |
1d2af02a | 544 | |
15d182aa JA |
545 | libaio Linux native asynchronous io. Note that Linux |
546 | may only support queued behaviour with | |
547 | non-buffered IO (set direct=1 or buffered=0). | |
de890a1e | 548 | This engine defines engine specific options. |
71bfa161 JA |
549 | |
550 | posixaio glibc posix asynchronous io. | |
551 | ||
417f0068 JA |
552 | solarisaio Solaris native asynchronous io. |
553 | ||
03e20d68 BC |
554 | windowsaio Windows native asynchronous io. |
555 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
556 | mmap File is memory mapped and data copied |
557 | to/from using memcpy(3). | |
558 | ||
559 | splice splice(2) is used to transfer the data and | |
560 | vmsplice(2) to transfer data from user | |
561 | space to the kernel. | |
562 | ||
d0ff85df JA |
563 | syslet-rw Use the syslet system calls to make |
564 | regular read/write async. | |
565 | ||
71bfa161 | 566 | sg SCSI generic sg v3 io. May either be |
6c219763 | 567 | synchronous using the SG_IO ioctl, or if |
71bfa161 JA |
568 | the target is an sg character device |
569 | we use read(2) and write(2) for asynchronous | |
570 | io. | |
571 | ||
a94ea28b JA |
572 | null Doesn't transfer any data, just pretends |
573 | to. This is mainly used to exercise fio | |
574 | itself and for debugging/testing purposes. | |
575 | ||
ed92ac0c | 576 | net Transfer over the network to given host:port. |
de890a1e SL |
577 | Depending on the protocol used, the hostname, |
578 | port, listen and filename options are used to | |
579 | specify what sort of connection to make, while | |
580 | the protocol option determines which protocol | |
581 | will be used. | |
582 | This engine defines engine specific options. | |
ed92ac0c | 583 | |
9cce02e8 JA |
584 | netsplice Like net, but uses splice/vmsplice to |
585 | map data and send/receive. | |
de890a1e | 586 | This engine defines engine specific options. |
9cce02e8 | 587 | |
53aec0a4 | 588 | cpuio Doesn't transfer any data, but burns CPU |
ba0fbe10 JA |
589 | cycles according to the cpuload= and |
590 | cpucycle= options. Setting cpuload=85 | |
591 | will cause that job to do nothing but burn | |
36ecec83 GP |
592 | 85% of the CPU. In case of SMP machines, |
593 | use numjobs=<no_of_cpu> to get desired CPU | |
594 | usage, as the cpuload only loads a single | |
595 | CPU at the desired rate. | |
ba0fbe10 | 596 | |
e9a1806f JA |
597 | guasi The GUASI IO engine is the Generic Userspace |
598 | Asyncronous Syscall Interface approach | |
599 | to async IO. See | |
600 | ||
601 | http://www.xmailserver.org/guasi-lib.html | |
602 | ||
603 | for more info on GUASI. | |
604 | ||
21b8aee8 | 605 | rdma The RDMA I/O engine supports both RDMA |
eb52fa3f BVA |
606 | memory semantics (RDMA_WRITE/RDMA_READ) and |
607 | channel semantics (Send/Recv) for the | |
608 | InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP protocols. | |
21b8aee8 | 609 | |
d54fce84 DM |
610 | falloc IO engine that does regular fallocate to |
611 | simulate data transfer as fio ioengine. | |
612 | DDIR_READ does fallocate(,mode = keep_size,) | |
0981fd71 | 613 | DDIR_WRITE does fallocate(,mode = 0) |
d54fce84 DM |
614 | DDIR_TRIM does fallocate(,mode = punch_hole) |
615 | ||
616 | e4defrag IO engine that does regular EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT | |
617 | ioctls to simulate defragment activity in | |
618 | request to DDIR_WRITE event | |
0981fd71 | 619 | |
8a7bd877 JA |
620 | external Prefix to specify loading an external |
621 | IO engine object file. Append the engine | |
622 | filename, eg ioengine=external:/tmp/foo.o | |
623 | to load ioengine foo.o in /tmp. | |
624 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
625 | iodepth=int This defines how many io units to keep in flight against |
626 | the file. The default is 1 for each file defined in this | |
627 | job, can be overridden with a larger value for higher | |
ee72ca09 JA |
628 | concurrency. Note that increasing iodepth beyond 1 will not |
629 | affect synchronous ioengines (except for small degress when | |
9b836561 | 630 | verify_async is in use). Even async engines may impose OS |
ee72ca09 JA |
631 | restrictions causing the desired depth not to be achieved. |
632 | This may happen on Linux when using libaio and not setting | |
633 | direct=1, since buffered IO is not async on that OS. Keep an | |
634 | eye on the IO depth distribution in the fio output to verify | |
635 | that the achieved depth is as expected. Default: 1. | |
71bfa161 | 636 | |
4950421a | 637 | iodepth_batch_submit=int |
cb5ab512 | 638 | iodepth_batch=int This defines how many pieces of IO to submit at once. |
89e820f6 JA |
639 | It defaults to 1 which means that we submit each IO |
640 | as soon as it is available, but can be raised to submit | |
641 | bigger batches of IO at the time. | |
cb5ab512 | 642 | |
4950421a JA |
643 | iodepth_batch_complete=int This defines how many pieces of IO to retrieve |
644 | at once. It defaults to 1 which means that we'll ask | |
645 | for a minimum of 1 IO in the retrieval process from | |
646 | the kernel. The IO retrieval will go on until we | |
647 | hit the limit set by iodepth_low. If this variable is | |
648 | set to 0, then fio will always check for completed | |
649 | events before queuing more IO. This helps reduce | |
650 | IO latency, at the cost of more retrieval system calls. | |
651 | ||
e916b390 JA |
652 | iodepth_low=int The low water mark indicating when to start filling |
653 | the queue again. Defaults to the same as iodepth, meaning | |
654 | that fio will attempt to keep the queue full at all times. | |
655 | If iodepth is set to eg 16 and iodepth_low is set to 4, then | |
656 | after fio has filled the queue of 16 requests, it will let | |
657 | the depth drain down to 4 before starting to fill it again. | |
658 | ||
71bfa161 | 659 | direct=bool If value is true, use non-buffered io. This is usually |
9b836561 | 660 | O_DIRECT. Note that ZFS on Solaris doesn't support direct io. |
93bcfd20 | 661 | On Windows the synchronous ioengines don't support direct io. |
76a43db4 JA |
662 | |
663 | buffered=bool If value is true, use buffered io. This is the opposite | |
664 | of the 'direct' option. Defaults to true. | |
71bfa161 | 665 | |
f7fa2653 | 666 | offset=int Start io at the given offset in the file. The data before |
71bfa161 JA |
667 | the given offset will not be touched. This effectively |
668 | caps the file size at real_size - offset. | |
669 | ||
214ac7e0 DE |
670 | offset_increment=int If this is provided, then the real offset becomes |
671 | the offset + offset_increment * thread_number, where the | |
672 | thread number is a counter that starts at 0 and is incremented | |
673 | for each job. This option is useful if there are several jobs | |
674 | which are intended to operate on a file in parallel in disjoint | |
675 | segments, with even spacing between the starting points. | |
676 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
677 | fsync=int If writing to a file, issue a sync of the dirty data |
678 | for every number of blocks given. For example, if you give | |
679 | 32 as a parameter, fio will sync the file for every 32 | |
680 | writes issued. If fio is using non-buffered io, we may | |
681 | not sync the file. The exception is the sg io engine, which | |
6c219763 | 682 | synchronizes the disk cache anyway. |
71bfa161 | 683 | |
e76b1da4 | 684 | fdatasync=int Like fsync= but uses fdatasync() to only sync data and not |
5f9099ea | 685 | metadata blocks. |
93bcfd20 | 686 | In FreeBSD and Windows there is no fdatasync(), this falls back to |
e72fa4d4 | 687 | using fsync() |
5f9099ea | 688 | |
e76b1da4 JA |
689 | sync_file_range=str:val Use sync_file_range() for every 'val' number of |
690 | write operations. Fio will track range of writes that | |
691 | have happened since the last sync_file_range() call. 'str' | |
692 | can currently be one or more of: | |
693 | ||
694 | wait_before SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE | |
695 | write SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE | |
696 | wait_after SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER | |
697 | ||
698 | So if you do sync_file_range=wait_before,write:8, fio would | |
699 | use SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE for | |
700 | every 8 writes. Also see the sync_file_range(2) man page. | |
701 | This option is Linux specific. | |
702 | ||
5036fc1e JA |
703 | overwrite=bool If true, writes to a file will always overwrite existing |
704 | data. If the file doesn't already exist, it will be | |
705 | created before the write phase begins. If the file exists | |
706 | and is large enough for the specified write phase, nothing | |
707 | will be done. | |
71bfa161 | 708 | |
dbd11ead | 709 | end_fsync=bool If true, fsync file contents when a write stage has completed. |
71bfa161 | 710 | |
ebb1415f JA |
711 | fsync_on_close=bool If true, fio will fsync() a dirty file on close. |
712 | This differs from end_fsync in that it will happen on every | |
713 | file close, not just at the end of the job. | |
714 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
715 | rwmixread=int How large a percentage of the mix should be reads. |
716 | ||
717 | rwmixwrite=int How large a percentage of the mix should be writes. If both | |
718 | rwmixread and rwmixwrite is given and the values do not add | |
719 | up to 100%, the latter of the two will be used to override | |
c35dd7a6 JA |
720 | the first. This may interfere with a given rate setting, |
721 | if fio is asked to limit reads or writes to a certain rate. | |
722 | If that is the case, then the distribution may be skewed. | |
71bfa161 | 723 | |
92d42d69 JA |
724 | random_distribution=str:float By default, fio will use a completely uniform |
725 | random distribution when asked to perform random IO. Sometimes | |
726 | it is useful to skew the distribution in specific ways, | |
727 | ensuring that some parts of the data is more hot than others. | |
728 | fio includes the following distribution models: | |
729 | ||
730 | random Uniform random distribution | |
731 | zipf Zipf distribution | |
732 | pareto Pareto distribution | |
733 | ||
734 | When using a zipf or pareto distribution, an input value | |
735 | is also needed to define the access pattern. For zipf, this | |
736 | is the zipf theta. For pareto, it's the pareto power. Fio | |
737 | includes a test program, genzipf, that can be used visualize | |
738 | what the given input values will yield in terms of hit rates. | |
739 | If you wanted to use zipf with a theta of 1.2, you would use | |
740 | random_distribution=zipf:1.2 as the option. If a non-uniform | |
741 | model is used, fio will disable use of the random map. | |
742 | ||
bb8895e0 JA |
743 | norandommap Normally fio will cover every block of the file when doing |
744 | random IO. If this option is given, fio will just get a | |
745 | new random offset without looking at past io history. This | |
746 | means that some blocks may not be read or written, and that | |
747 | some blocks may be read/written more than once. This option | |
8347239a JA |
748 | is mutually exclusive with verify= if and only if multiple |
749 | blocksizes (via bsrange=) are used, since fio only tracks | |
750 | complete rewrites of blocks. | |
bb8895e0 | 751 | |
0408c206 JA |
752 | softrandommap=bool See norandommap. If fio runs with the random block map |
753 | enabled and it fails to allocate the map, if this option is | |
754 | set it will continue without a random block map. As coverage | |
755 | will not be as complete as with random maps, this option is | |
2b386d25 JA |
756 | disabled by default. |
757 | ||
e8b1961d JA |
758 | random_generator=str Fio supports the following engines for generating |
759 | IO offsets for random IO: | |
760 | ||
761 | tausworthe Strong 2^88 cycle random number generator | |
762 | lfsr Linear feedback shift register generator | |
763 | ||
764 | Tausworthe is a strong random number generator, but it | |
765 | requires tracking on the side if we want to ensure that | |
766 | blocks are only read or written once. LFSR guarantees | |
767 | that we never generate the same offset twice, and it's | |
768 | also less computationally expensive. It's not a true | |
769 | random generator, however, though for IO purposes it's | |
770 | typically good enough. LFSR only works with single | |
771 | block sizes, not with workloads that use multiple block | |
772 | sizes. If used with such a workload, fio may read or write | |
773 | some blocks multiple times. | |
43f09da1 | 774 | |
71bfa161 JA |
775 | nice=int Run the job with the given nice value. See man nice(2). |
776 | ||
777 | prio=int Set the io priority value of this job. Linux limits us to | |
778 | a positive value between 0 and 7, with 0 being the highest. | |
779 | See man ionice(1). | |
780 | ||
781 | prioclass=int Set the io priority class. See man ionice(1). | |
782 | ||
783 | thinktime=int Stall the job x microseconds after an io has completed before | |
784 | issuing the next. May be used to simulate processing being | |
48097d5c JA |
785 | done by an application. See thinktime_blocks and |
786 | thinktime_spin. | |
787 | ||
788 | thinktime_spin=int | |
789 | Only valid if thinktime is set - pretend to spend CPU time | |
790 | doing something with the data received, before falling back | |
791 | to sleeping for the rest of the period specified by | |
792 | thinktime. | |
9c1f7434 JA |
793 | |
794 | thinktime_blocks | |
795 | Only valid if thinktime is set - control how many blocks | |
796 | to issue, before waiting 'thinktime' usecs. If not set, | |
797 | defaults to 1 which will make fio wait 'thinktime' usecs | |
798 | after every block. | |
71bfa161 | 799 | |
581e7141 | 800 | rate=int Cap the bandwidth used by this job. The number is in bytes/sec, |
b09da8fa | 801 | the normal suffix rules apply. You can use rate=500k to limit |
581e7141 JA |
802 | reads and writes to 500k each, or you can specify read and |
803 | writes separately. Using rate=1m,500k would limit reads to | |
804 | 1MB/sec and writes to 500KB/sec. Capping only reads or | |
805 | writes can be done with rate=,500k or rate=500k,. The former | |
806 | will only limit writes (to 500KB/sec), the latter will only | |
807 | limit reads. | |
71bfa161 JA |
808 | |
809 | ratemin=int Tell fio to do whatever it can to maintain at least this | |
4e991c23 | 810 | bandwidth. Failing to meet this requirement, will cause |
581e7141 JA |
811 | the job to exit. The same format as rate is used for |
812 | read vs write separation. | |
4e991c23 JA |
813 | |
814 | rate_iops=int Cap the bandwidth to this number of IOPS. Basically the same | |
815 | as rate, just specified independently of bandwidth. If the | |
816 | job is given a block size range instead of a fixed value, | |
581e7141 JA |
817 | the smallest block size is used as the metric. The same format |
818 | as rate is used for read vs write seperation. | |
4e991c23 JA |
819 | |
820 | rate_iops_min=int If fio doesn't meet this rate of IO, it will cause | |
581e7141 JA |
821 | the job to exit. The same format as rate is used for read vs |
822 | write seperation. | |
71bfa161 | 823 | |
15501535 JA |
824 | max_latency=int If set, fio will exit the job if it exceeds this maximum |
825 | latency. It will exit with an ETIME error. | |
826 | ||
71bfa161 | 827 | ratecycle=int Average bandwidth for 'rate' and 'ratemin' over this number |
6c219763 | 828 | of milliseconds. |
71bfa161 JA |
829 | |
830 | cpumask=int Set the CPU affinity of this job. The parameter given is a | |
a08bc17f JA |
831 | bitmask of allowed CPU's the job may run on. So if you want |
832 | the allowed CPUs to be 1 and 5, you would pass the decimal | |
833 | value of (1 << 1 | 1 << 5), or 34. See man | |
7dbb6eba | 834 | sched_setaffinity(2). This may not work on all supported |
b0ea08ce JA |
835 | operating systems or kernel versions. This option doesn't |
836 | work well for a higher CPU count than what you can store in | |
837 | an integer mask, so it can only control cpus 1-32. For | |
838 | boxes with larger CPU counts, use cpus_allowed. | |
71bfa161 | 839 | |
d2e268b0 JA |
840 | cpus_allowed=str Controls the same options as cpumask, but it allows a text |
841 | setting of the permitted CPUs instead. So to use CPUs 1 and | |
62a7273d JA |
842 | 5, you would specify cpus_allowed=1,5. This options also |
843 | allows a range of CPUs. Say you wanted a binding to CPUs | |
844 | 1, 5, and 8-15, you would set cpus_allowed=1,5,8-15. | |
d2e268b0 | 845 | |
d0b937ed YR |
846 | numa_cpu_nodes=str Set this job running on spcified NUMA nodes' CPUs. The |
847 | arguments allow comma delimited list of cpu numbers, | |
848 | A-B ranges, or 'all'. Note, to enable numa options support, | |
67bf9823 | 849 | fio must be built on a system with libnuma-dev(el) installed. |
d0b937ed YR |
850 | |
851 | numa_mem_policy=str Set this job's memory policy and corresponding NUMA | |
852 | nodes. Format of the argements: | |
853 | <mode>[:<nodelist>] | |
854 | `mode' is one of the following memory policy: | |
855 | default, prefer, bind, interleave, local | |
856 | For `default' and `local' memory policy, no node is | |
857 | needed to be specified. | |
858 | For `prefer', only one node is allowed. | |
859 | For `bind' and `interleave', it allow comma delimited | |
860 | list of numbers, A-B ranges, or 'all'. | |
861 | ||
e417fd66 | 862 | startdelay=time Start this job the specified number of seconds after fio |
71bfa161 JA |
863 | has started. Only useful if the job file contains several |
864 | jobs, and you want to delay starting some jobs to a certain | |
865 | time. | |
866 | ||
e417fd66 | 867 | runtime=time Tell fio to terminate processing after the specified number |
71bfa161 JA |
868 | of seconds. It can be quite hard to determine for how long |
869 | a specified job will run, so this parameter is handy to | |
870 | cap the total runtime to a given time. | |
871 | ||
cf4464ca | 872 | time_based If set, fio will run for the duration of the runtime |
bf9a3edb | 873 | specified even if the file(s) are completely read or |
cf4464ca JA |
874 | written. It will simply loop over the same workload |
875 | as many times as the runtime allows. | |
876 | ||
e417fd66 | 877 | ramp_time=time If set, fio will run the specified workload for this amount |
721938ae JA |
878 | of time before logging any performance numbers. Useful for |
879 | letting performance settle before logging results, thus | |
b29ee5b3 JA |
880 | minimizing the runtime required for stable results. Note |
881 | that the ramp_time is considered lead in time for a job, | |
882 | thus it will increase the total runtime if a special timeout | |
883 | or runtime is specified. | |
721938ae | 884 | |
71bfa161 JA |
885 | invalidate=bool Invalidate the buffer/page cache parts for this file prior |
886 | to starting io. Defaults to true. | |
887 | ||
888 | sync=bool Use sync io for buffered writes. For the majority of the | |
889 | io engines, this means using O_SYNC. | |
890 | ||
d3aad8f2 | 891 | iomem=str |
71bfa161 JA |
892 | mem=str Fio can use various types of memory as the io unit buffer. |
893 | The allowed values are: | |
894 | ||
895 | malloc Use memory from malloc(3) as the buffers. | |
896 | ||
897 | shm Use shared memory as the buffers. Allocated | |
898 | through shmget(2). | |
899 | ||
74b025b0 JA |
900 | shmhuge Same as shm, but use huge pages as backing. |
901 | ||
313cb206 JA |
902 | mmap Use mmap to allocate buffers. May either be |
903 | anonymous memory, or can be file backed if | |
904 | a filename is given after the option. The | |
905 | format is mem=mmap:/path/to/file. | |
71bfa161 | 906 | |
d0bdaf49 JA |
907 | mmaphuge Use a memory mapped huge file as the buffer |
908 | backing. Append filename after mmaphuge, ala | |
909 | mem=mmaphuge:/hugetlbfs/file | |
910 | ||
71bfa161 | 911 | The area allocated is a function of the maximum allowed |
5394ae5f JA |
912 | bs size for the job, multiplied by the io depth given. Note |
913 | that for shmhuge and mmaphuge to work, the system must have | |
914 | free huge pages allocated. This can normally be checked | |
915 | and set by reading/writing /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages on a | |
b22989b9 | 916 | Linux system. Fio assumes a huge page is 4MB in size. So |
5394ae5f JA |
917 | to calculate the number of huge pages you need for a given |
918 | job file, add up the io depth of all jobs (normally one unless | |
919 | iodepth= is used) and multiply by the maximum bs set. Then | |
920 | divide that number by the huge page size. You can see the | |
921 | size of the huge pages in /proc/meminfo. If no huge pages | |
922 | are allocated by having a non-zero number in nr_hugepages, | |
56bb17f2 | 923 | using mmaphuge or shmhuge will fail. Also see hugepage-size. |
5394ae5f JA |
924 | |
925 | mmaphuge also needs to have hugetlbfs mounted and the file | |
926 | location should point there. So if it's mounted in /huge, | |
927 | you would use mem=mmaphuge:/huge/somefile. | |
71bfa161 | 928 | |
d529ee19 JA |
929 | iomem_align=int This indiciates the memory alignment of the IO memory buffers. |
930 | Note that the given alignment is applied to the first IO unit | |
931 | buffer, if using iodepth the alignment of the following buffers | |
932 | are given by the bs used. In other words, if using a bs that is | |
933 | a multiple of the page sized in the system, all buffers will | |
934 | be aligned to this value. If using a bs that is not page | |
935 | aligned, the alignment of subsequent IO memory buffers is the | |
936 | sum of the iomem_align and bs used. | |
937 | ||
f7fa2653 | 938 | hugepage-size=int |
56bb17f2 | 939 | Defines the size of a huge page. Must at least be equal |
b22989b9 | 940 | to the system setting, see /proc/meminfo. Defaults to 4MB. |
c51074e7 JA |
941 | Should probably always be a multiple of megabytes, so using |
942 | hugepage-size=Xm is the preferred way to set this to avoid | |
943 | setting a non-pow-2 bad value. | |
56bb17f2 | 944 | |
71bfa161 JA |
945 | exitall When one job finishes, terminate the rest. The default is |
946 | to wait for each job to finish, sometimes that is not the | |
947 | desired action. | |
948 | ||
949 | bwavgtime=int Average the calculated bandwidth over the given time. Value | |
6c219763 | 950 | is specified in milliseconds. |
71bfa161 | 951 | |
c8eeb9df JA |
952 | iopsavgtime=int Average the calculated IOPS over the given time. Value |
953 | is specified in milliseconds. | |
954 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
955 | create_serialize=bool If true, serialize the file creating for the jobs. |
956 | This may be handy to avoid interleaving of data | |
957 | files, which may greatly depend on the filesystem | |
958 | used and even the number of processors in the system. | |
959 | ||
960 | create_fsync=bool fsync the data file after creation. This is the | |
961 | default. | |
962 | ||
814452bd JA |
963 | create_on_open=bool Don't pre-setup the files for IO, just create open() |
964 | when it's time to do IO to that file. | |
965 | ||
25460cf6 JA |
966 | create_only=bool If true, fio will only run the setup phase of the job. |
967 | If files need to be laid out or updated on disk, only | |
968 | that will be done. The actual job contents are not | |
969 | executed. | |
970 | ||
afad68f7 | 971 | pre_read=bool If this is given, files will be pre-read into memory before |
34f1c044 JA |
972 | starting the given IO operation. This will also clear |
973 | the 'invalidate' flag, since it is pointless to pre-read | |
9c0d2241 JA |
974 | and then drop the cache. This will only work for IO engines |
975 | that are seekable, since they allow you to read the same data | |
976 | multiple times. Thus it will not work on eg network or splice | |
977 | IO. | |
afad68f7 | 978 | |
e545a6ce | 979 | unlink=bool Unlink the job files when done. Not the default, as repeated |
bf9a3edb JA |
980 | runs of that job would then waste time recreating the file |
981 | set again and again. | |
71bfa161 JA |
982 | |
983 | loops=int Run the specified number of iterations of this job. Used | |
984 | to repeat the same workload a given number of times. Defaults | |
985 | to 1. | |
986 | ||
68e1f29a | 987 | do_verify=bool Run the verify phase after a write phase. Only makes sense if |
e84c73a8 SL |
988 | verify is set. Defaults to 1. |
989 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
990 | verify=str If writing to a file, fio can verify the file contents |
991 | after each iteration of the job. The allowed values are: | |
992 | ||
993 | md5 Use an md5 sum of the data area and store | |
994 | it in the header of each block. | |
995 | ||
17dc34df JA |
996 | crc64 Use an experimental crc64 sum of the data |
997 | area and store it in the header of each | |
998 | block. | |
999 | ||
bac39e0e JA |
1000 | crc32c Use a crc32c sum of the data area and store |
1001 | it in the header of each block. | |
1002 | ||
3845591f | 1003 | crc32c-intel Use hardware assisted crc32c calcuation |
0539d758 JA |
1004 | provided on SSE4.2 enabled processors. Falls |
1005 | back to regular software crc32c, if not | |
1006 | supported by the system. | |
3845591f | 1007 | |
71bfa161 JA |
1008 | crc32 Use a crc32 sum of the data area and store |
1009 | it in the header of each block. | |
1010 | ||
969f7ed3 JA |
1011 | crc16 Use a crc16 sum of the data area and store |
1012 | it in the header of each block. | |
1013 | ||
17dc34df JA |
1014 | crc7 Use a crc7 sum of the data area and store |
1015 | it in the header of each block. | |
1016 | ||
cd14cc10 JA |
1017 | sha512 Use sha512 as the checksum function. |
1018 | ||
1019 | sha256 Use sha256 as the checksum function. | |
1020 | ||
7c353ceb JA |
1021 | sha1 Use optimized sha1 as the checksum function. |
1022 | ||
7437ee87 SL |
1023 | meta Write extra information about each io |
1024 | (timestamp, block number etc.). The block | |
996093bb | 1025 | number is verified. See also verify_pattern. |
7437ee87 | 1026 | |
36690c9b JA |
1027 | null Only pretend to verify. Useful for testing |
1028 | internals with ioengine=null, not for much | |
1029 | else. | |
1030 | ||
6c219763 | 1031 | This option can be used for repeated burn-in tests of a |
71bfa161 | 1032 | system to make sure that the written data is also |
b892dc08 JA |
1033 | correctly read back. If the data direction given is |
1034 | a read or random read, fio will assume that it should | |
1035 | verify a previously written file. If the data direction | |
1036 | includes any form of write, the verify will be of the | |
1037 | newly written data. | |
71bfa161 | 1038 | |
160b966d JA |
1039 | verifysort=bool If set, fio will sort written verify blocks when it deems |
1040 | it faster to read them back in a sorted manner. This is | |
1041 | often the case when overwriting an existing file, since | |
1042 | the blocks are already laid out in the file system. You | |
1043 | can ignore this option unless doing huge amounts of really | |
1044 | fast IO where the red-black tree sorting CPU time becomes | |
1045 | significant. | |
3f9f4e26 | 1046 | |
f7fa2653 | 1047 | verify_offset=int Swap the verification header with data somewhere else |
546a9142 SL |
1048 | in the block before writing. Its swapped back before |
1049 | verifying. | |
1050 | ||
f7fa2653 | 1051 | verify_interval=int Write the verification header at a finer granularity |
3f9f4e26 SL |
1052 | than the blocksize. It will be written for chunks the |
1053 | size of header_interval. blocksize should divide this | |
1054 | evenly. | |
90059d65 | 1055 | |
0e92f873 | 1056 | verify_pattern=str If set, fio will fill the io buffers with this |
e28218f3 SL |
1057 | pattern. Fio defaults to filling with totally random |
1058 | bytes, but sometimes it's interesting to fill with a known | |
1059 | pattern for io verification purposes. Depending on the | |
1060 | width of the pattern, fio will fill 1/2/3/4 bytes of the | |
0e92f873 RR |
1061 | buffer at the time(it can be either a decimal or a hex number). |
1062 | The verify_pattern if larger than a 32-bit quantity has to | |
996093bb JA |
1063 | be a hex number that starts with either "0x" or "0X". Use |
1064 | with verify=meta. | |
e28218f3 | 1065 | |
68e1f29a | 1066 | verify_fatal=bool Normally fio will keep checking the entire contents |
a12a3b4d JA |
1067 | before quitting on a block verification failure. If this |
1068 | option is set, fio will exit the job on the first observed | |
1069 | failure. | |
e8462bd8 | 1070 | |
b463e936 JA |
1071 | verify_dump=bool If set, dump the contents of both the original data |
1072 | block and the data block we read off disk to files. This | |
1073 | allows later analysis to inspect just what kind of data | |
ef71e317 | 1074 | corruption occurred. Off by default. |
b463e936 | 1075 | |
e8462bd8 JA |
1076 | verify_async=int Fio will normally verify IO inline from the submitting |
1077 | thread. This option takes an integer describing how many | |
1078 | async offload threads to create for IO verification instead, | |
1079 | causing fio to offload the duty of verifying IO contents | |
c85c324c JA |
1080 | to one or more separate threads. If using this offload |
1081 | option, even sync IO engines can benefit from using an | |
1082 | iodepth setting higher than 1, as it allows them to have | |
1083 | IO in flight while verifies are running. | |
e8462bd8 JA |
1084 | |
1085 | verify_async_cpus=str Tell fio to set the given CPU affinity on the | |
1086 | async IO verification threads. See cpus_allowed for the | |
1087 | format used. | |
6f87418f JA |
1088 | |
1089 | verify_backlog=int Fio will normally verify the written contents of a | |
1090 | job that utilizes verify once that job has completed. In | |
1091 | other words, everything is written then everything is read | |
1092 | back and verified. You may want to verify continually | |
1093 | instead for a variety of reasons. Fio stores the meta data | |
1094 | associated with an IO block in memory, so for large | |
1095 | verify workloads, quite a bit of memory would be used up | |
1096 | holding this meta data. If this option is enabled, fio | |
f42195a3 JA |
1097 | will write only N blocks before verifying these blocks. |
1098 | ||
6f87418f JA |
1099 | will verify the previously written blocks before continuing |
1100 | to write new ones. | |
1101 | ||
1102 | verify_backlog_batch=int Control how many blocks fio will verify | |
1103 | if verify_backlog is set. If not set, will default to | |
1104 | the value of verify_backlog (meaning the entire queue | |
f42195a3 JA |
1105 | is read back and verified). If verify_backlog_batch is |
1106 | less than verify_backlog then not all blocks will be verified, | |
1107 | if verify_backlog_batch is larger than verify_backlog, some | |
1108 | blocks will be verified more than once. | |
66c098b8 | 1109 | |
d392365e JA |
1110 | stonewall |
1111 | wait_for_previous Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit, before | |
71bfa161 | 1112 | starting this one. Can be used to insert serialization |
b3d62a75 JA |
1113 | points in the job file. A stone wall also implies starting |
1114 | a new reporting group. | |
1115 | ||
abcab6af | 1116 | new_group Start a new reporting group. See: group_reporting. |
71bfa161 JA |
1117 | |
1118 | numjobs=int Create the specified number of clones of this job. May be | |
1119 | used to setup a larger number of threads/processes doing | |
abcab6af AV |
1120 | the same thing. Each thread is reported separately; to see |
1121 | statistics for all clones as a whole, use group_reporting in | |
1122 | conjunction with new_group. | |
1123 | ||
1124 | group_reporting It may sometimes be interesting to display statistics for | |
04b2f799 JA |
1125 | groups of jobs as a whole instead of for each individual job. |
1126 | This is especially true if 'numjobs' is used; looking at | |
1127 | individual thread/process output quickly becomes unwieldy. | |
1128 | To see the final report per-group instead of per-job, use | |
1129 | 'group_reporting'. Jobs in a file will be part of the same | |
1130 | reporting group, unless if separated by a stonewall, or by | |
1131 | using 'new_group'. | |
71bfa161 JA |
1132 | |
1133 | thread fio defaults to forking jobs, however if this option is | |
1134 | given, fio will use pthread_create(3) to create threads | |
1135 | instead. | |
1136 | ||
f7fa2653 | 1137 | zonesize=int Divide a file into zones of the specified size. See zoneskip. |
71bfa161 | 1138 | |
f7fa2653 | 1139 | zoneskip=int Skip the specified number of bytes when zonesize data has |
71bfa161 JA |
1140 | been read. The two zone options can be used to only do |
1141 | io on zones of a file. | |
1142 | ||
076efc7c | 1143 | write_iolog=str Write the issued io patterns to the specified file. See |
5b42a488 SH |
1144 | read_iolog. Specify a separate file for each job, otherwise |
1145 | the iologs will be interspersed and the file may be corrupt. | |
71bfa161 | 1146 | |
076efc7c | 1147 | read_iolog=str Open an iolog with the specified file name and replay the |
71bfa161 | 1148 | io patterns it contains. This can be used to store a |
6df8adaa JA |
1149 | workload and replay it sometime later. The iolog given |
1150 | may also be a blktrace binary file, which allows fio | |
1151 | to replay a workload captured by blktrace. See blktrace | |
1152 | for how to capture such logging data. For blktrace replay, | |
1153 | the file needs to be turned into a blkparse binary data | |
ea3e51c3 | 1154 | file first (blkparse <device> -o /dev/null -d file_for_fio.bin). |
66c098b8 | 1155 | |
64bbb865 | 1156 | replay_no_stall=int When replaying I/O with read_iolog the default behavior |
62776229 JA |
1157 | is to attempt to respect the time stamps within the log and |
1158 | replay them with the appropriate delay between IOPS. By | |
1159 | setting this variable fio will not respect the timestamps and | |
1160 | attempt to replay them as fast as possible while still | |
1161 | respecting ordering. The result is the same I/O pattern to a | |
1162 | given device, but different timings. | |
71bfa161 | 1163 | |
d1c46c04 DN |
1164 | replay_redirect=str While replaying I/O patterns using read_iolog the |
1165 | default behavior is to replay the IOPS onto the major/minor | |
1166 | device that each IOP was recorded from. This is sometimes | |
1167 | undesireable because on a different machine those major/minor | |
1168 | numbers can map to a different device. Changing hardware on | |
1169 | the same system can also result in a different major/minor | |
1170 | mapping. Replay_redirect causes all IOPS to be replayed onto | |
1171 | the single specified device regardless of the device it was | |
1172 | recorded from. i.e. replay_redirect=/dev/sdc would cause all | |
1173 | IO in the blktrace to be replayed onto /dev/sdc. This means | |
1174 | multiple devices will be replayed onto a single, if the trace | |
1175 | contains multiple devices. If you want multiple devices to be | |
1176 | replayed concurrently to multiple redirected devices you must | |
1177 | blkparse your trace into separate traces and replay them with | |
1178 | independent fio invocations. Unfortuantely this also breaks | |
1179 | the strict time ordering between multiple device accesses. | |
1180 | ||
e3cedca7 | 1181 | write_bw_log=str If given, write a bandwidth log of the jobs in this job |
71bfa161 | 1182 | file. Can be used to store data of the bandwidth of the |
e0da9bc2 JA |
1183 | jobs in their lifetime. The included fio_generate_plots |
1184 | script uses gnuplot to turn these text files into nice | |
ddb754db LAG |
1185 | graphs. See write_lat_log for behaviour of given |
1186 | filename. For this option, the suffix is _bw.log. | |
71bfa161 | 1187 | |
e3cedca7 | 1188 | write_lat_log=str Same as write_bw_log, except that this option stores io |
02af0988 JA |
1189 | submission, completion, and total latencies instead. If no |
1190 | filename is given with this option, the default filename of | |
1191 | "jobname_type.log" is used. Even if the filename is given, | |
1192 | fio will still append the type of log. So if one specifies | |
e3cedca7 JA |
1193 | |
1194 | write_lat_log=foo | |
1195 | ||
02af0988 JA |
1196 | The actual log names will be foo_slat.log, foo_slat.log, |
1197 | and foo_lat.log. This helps fio_generate_plot fine the logs | |
1198 | automatically. | |
71bfa161 | 1199 | |
c8eeb9df JA |
1200 | write_bw_log=str If given, write an IOPS log of the jobs in this job |
1201 | file. See write_bw_log. | |
1202 | ||
b8bc8cba JA |
1203 | write_iops_log=str Same as write_bw_log, but writes IOPS. If no filename is |
1204 | given with this option, the default filename of | |
1205 | "jobname_type.log" is used. Even if the filename is given, | |
1206 | fio will still append the type of log. | |
1207 | ||
1208 | log_avg_msec=int By default, fio will log an entry in the iops, latency, | |
1209 | or bw log for every IO that completes. When writing to the | |
1210 | disk log, that can quickly grow to a very large size. Setting | |
1211 | this option makes fio average the each log entry over the | |
1212 | specified period of time, reducing the resolution of the log. | |
1213 | Defaults to 0. | |
1214 | ||
f7fa2653 | 1215 | lockmem=int Pin down the specified amount of memory with mlock(2). Can |
71bfa161 JA |
1216 | potentially be used instead of removing memory or booting |
1217 | with less memory to simulate a smaller amount of memory. | |
1218 | ||
1219 | exec_prerun=str Before running this job, issue the command specified | |
1220 | through system(3). | |
1221 | ||
1222 | exec_postrun=str After the job completes, issue the command specified | |
1223 | though system(3). | |
1224 | ||
1225 | ioscheduler=str Attempt to switch the device hosting the file to the specified | |
1226 | io scheduler before running. | |
1227 | ||
0a839f30 JA |
1228 | disk_util=bool Generate disk utilization statistics, if the platform |
1229 | supports it. Defaults to on. | |
1230 | ||
02af0988 | 1231 | disable_lat=bool Disable measurements of total latency numbers. Useful |
9520ebb9 JA |
1232 | only for cutting back the number of calls to gettimeofday, |
1233 | as that does impact performance at really high IOPS rates. | |
1234 | Note that to really get rid of a large amount of these | |
1235 | calls, this option must be used with disable_slat and | |
1236 | disable_bw as well. | |
1237 | ||
02af0988 JA |
1238 | disable_clat=bool Disable measurements of completion latency numbers. See |
1239 | disable_lat. | |
1240 | ||
9520ebb9 | 1241 | disable_slat=bool Disable measurements of submission latency numbers. See |
02af0988 | 1242 | disable_slat. |
9520ebb9 JA |
1243 | |
1244 | disable_bw=bool Disable measurements of throughput/bandwidth numbers. See | |
02af0988 | 1245 | disable_lat. |
9520ebb9 | 1246 | |
83349190 YH |
1247 | clat_percentiles=bool Enable the reporting of percentiles of |
1248 | completion latencies. | |
1249 | ||
1250 | percentile_list=float_list Overwrite the default list of percentiles | |
1251 | for completion latencies. Each number is a floating | |
1252 | number in the range (0,100], and the maximum length of | |
1253 | the list is 20. Use ':' to separate the numbers, and | |
1254 | list the numbers in ascending order. For example, | |
1255 | --percentile_list=99.5:99.9 will cause fio to report | |
1256 | the values of completion latency below which 99.5% and | |
1257 | 99.9% of the observed latencies fell, respectively. | |
1258 | ||
23893646 JA |
1259 | clocksource=str Use the given clocksource as the base of timing. The |
1260 | supported options are: | |
1261 | ||
1262 | gettimeofday gettimeofday(2) | |
1263 | ||
1264 | clock_gettime clock_gettime(2) | |
1265 | ||
1266 | cpu Internal CPU clock source | |
1267 | ||
1268 | cpu is the preferred clocksource if it is reliable, as it | |
1269 | is very fast (and fio is heavy on time calls). Fio will | |
1270 | automatically use this clocksource if it's supported and | |
1271 | considered reliable on the system it is running on, unless | |
1272 | another clocksource is specifically set. For x86/x86-64 CPUs, | |
1273 | this means supporting TSC Invariant. | |
1274 | ||
993bf48b JA |
1275 | gtod_reduce=bool Enable all of the gettimeofday() reducing options |
1276 | (disable_clat, disable_slat, disable_bw) plus reduce | |
1277 | precision of the timeout somewhat to really shrink | |
1278 | the gettimeofday() call count. With this option enabled, | |
1279 | we only do about 0.4% of the gtod() calls we would have | |
1280 | done if all time keeping was enabled. | |
1281 | ||
be4ecfdf JA |
1282 | gtod_cpu=int Sometimes it's cheaper to dedicate a single thread of |
1283 | execution to just getting the current time. Fio (and | |
1284 | databases, for instance) are very intensive on gettimeofday() | |
1285 | calls. With this option, you can set one CPU aside for | |
1286 | doing nothing but logging current time to a shared memory | |
1287 | location. Then the other threads/processes that run IO | |
1288 | workloads need only copy that segment, instead of entering | |
1289 | the kernel with a gettimeofday() call. The CPU set aside | |
1290 | for doing these time calls will be excluded from other | |
1291 | uses. Fio will manually clear it from the CPU mask of other | |
1292 | jobs. | |
a696fa2a | 1293 | |
06842027 | 1294 | continue_on_error=str Normally fio will exit the job on the first observed |
f2bba182 RR |
1295 | failure. If this option is set, fio will continue the job when |
1296 | there is a 'non-fatal error' (EIO or EILSEQ) until the runtime | |
1297 | is exceeded or the I/O size specified is completed. If this | |
1298 | option is used, there are two more stats that are appended, | |
1299 | the total error count and the first error. The error field | |
1300 | given in the stats is the first error that was hit during the | |
1301 | run. | |
be4ecfdf | 1302 | |
06842027 SL |
1303 | The allowed values are: |
1304 | ||
1305 | none Exit on any IO or verify errors. | |
1306 | ||
1307 | read Continue on read errors, exit on all others. | |
1308 | ||
1309 | write Continue on write errors, exit on all others. | |
1310 | ||
1311 | io Continue on any IO error, exit on all others. | |
1312 | ||
1313 | verify Continue on verify errors, exit on all others. | |
1314 | ||
1315 | all Continue on all errors. | |
1316 | ||
1317 | 0 Backward-compatible alias for 'none'. | |
1318 | ||
1319 | 1 Backward-compatible alias for 'all'. | |
1320 | ||
8b28bd41 DM |
1321 | ignore_error=str Sometimes you want to ignore some errors during test |
1322 | in that case you can specify error list for each error type. | |
1323 | ignore_error=READ_ERR_LIST,WRITE_ERR_LIST,VERIFY_ERR_LIST | |
1324 | errors for given error type is separated with ':'. Error | |
1325 | may be symbol ('ENOSPC', 'ENOMEM') or integer. | |
1326 | Example: | |
1327 | ignore_error=EAGAIN,ENOSPC:122 | |
66c098b8 BC |
1328 | This option will ignore EAGAIN from READ, and ENOSPC and |
1329 | 122(EDQUOT) from WRITE. | |
8b28bd41 DM |
1330 | |
1331 | error_dump=bool If set dump every error even if it is non fatal, true | |
1332 | by default. If disabled only fatal error will be dumped | |
66c098b8 | 1333 | |
6adb38a1 JA |
1334 | cgroup=str Add job to this control group. If it doesn't exist, it will |
1335 | be created. The system must have a mounted cgroup blkio | |
1336 | mount point for this to work. If your system doesn't have it | |
1337 | mounted, you can do so with: | |
a696fa2a JA |
1338 | |
1339 | # mount -t cgroup -o blkio none /cgroup | |
1340 | ||
a696fa2a JA |
1341 | cgroup_weight=int Set the weight of the cgroup to this value. See |
1342 | the documentation that comes with the kernel, allowed values | |
1343 | are in the range of 100..1000. | |
71bfa161 | 1344 | |
7de87099 VG |
1345 | cgroup_nodelete=bool Normally fio will delete the cgroups it has created after |
1346 | the job completion. To override this behavior and to leave | |
1347 | cgroups around after the job completion, set cgroup_nodelete=1. | |
1348 | This can be useful if one wants to inspect various cgroup | |
1349 | files after job completion. Default: false | |
1350 | ||
e0b0d892 JA |
1351 | uid=int Instead of running as the invoking user, set the user ID to |
1352 | this value before the thread/process does any work. | |
1353 | ||
1354 | gid=int Set group ID, see uid. | |
1355 | ||
9e684a49 DE |
1356 | flow_id=int The ID of the flow. If not specified, it defaults to being a |
1357 | global flow. See flow. | |
1358 | ||
1359 | flow=int Weight in token-based flow control. If this value is used, then | |
1360 | there is a 'flow counter' which is used to regulate the | |
1361 | proportion of activity between two or more jobs. fio attempts | |
1362 | to keep this flow counter near zero. The 'flow' parameter | |
1363 | stands for how much should be added or subtracted to the flow | |
1364 | counter on each iteration of the main I/O loop. That is, if | |
1365 | one job has flow=8 and another job has flow=-1, then there | |
1366 | will be a roughly 1:8 ratio in how much one runs vs the other. | |
1367 | ||
1368 | flow_watermark=int The maximum value that the absolute value of the flow | |
1369 | counter is allowed to reach before the job must wait for a | |
1370 | lower value of the counter. | |
1371 | ||
1372 | flow_sleep=int The period of time, in microseconds, to wait after the flow | |
1373 | watermark has been exceeded before retrying operations | |
1374 | ||
de890a1e SL |
1375 | In addition, there are some parameters which are only valid when a specific |
1376 | ioengine is in use. These are used identically to normal parameters, with the | |
1377 | caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the ioengine | |
1378 | that defines them is selected. | |
1379 | ||
1380 | [libaio] userspace_reap Normally, with the libaio engine in use, fio will use | |
1381 | the io_getevents system call to reap newly returned events. | |
1382 | With this flag turned on, the AIO ring will be read directly | |
1383 | from user-space to reap events. The reaping mode is only | |
1384 | enabled when polling for a minimum of 0 events (eg when | |
1385 | iodepth_batch_complete=0). | |
1386 | ||
0353050f JA |
1387 | [cpu] cpuload=int Attempt to use the specified percentage of CPU cycles. |
1388 | ||
1389 | [cpu] cpuchunks=int Split the load into cycles of the given time. In | |
1390 | microseconds. | |
1391 | ||
de890a1e SL |
1392 | [netsplice] hostname=str |
1393 | [net] hostname=str The host name or IP address to use for TCP or UDP based IO. | |
1394 | If the job is a TCP listener or UDP reader, the hostname is not | |
1395 | used and must be omitted. | |
1396 | ||
1397 | [netsplice] port=int | |
1398 | [net] port=int The TCP or UDP port to bind to or connect to. | |
1399 | ||
1d360ffb JA |
1400 | [netsplice] nodelay=bool |
1401 | [net] nodelay=bool Set TCP_NODELAY on TCP connections. | |
1402 | ||
de890a1e SL |
1403 | [netsplice] protocol=str |
1404 | [netsplice] proto=str | |
1405 | [net] protocol=str | |
1406 | [net] proto=str The network protocol to use. Accepted values are: | |
1407 | ||
1408 | tcp Transmission control protocol | |
f5cc3d0e | 1409 | udp User datagram protocol |
de890a1e SL |
1410 | unix UNIX domain socket |
1411 | ||
1412 | When the protocol is TCP or UDP, the port must also be given, | |
1413 | as well as the hostname if the job is a TCP listener or UDP | |
1414 | reader. For unix sockets, the normal filename option should be | |
1415 | used and the port is invalid. | |
1416 | ||
1417 | [net] listen For TCP network connections, tell fio to listen for incoming | |
1418 | connections rather than initiating an outgoing connection. The | |
1419 | hostname must be omitted if this option is used. | |
7aeb1e94 JA |
1420 | [net] pingpong Normal a network writer will just continue writing data, and |
1421 | a network reader will just consume packages. If pingpong=1 | |
1422 | is set, a writer will send its normal payload to the reader, | |
1423 | then wait for the reader to send the same payload back. This | |
1424 | allows fio to measure network latencies. The submission | |
1425 | and completion latencies then measure local time spent | |
1426 | sending or receiving, and the completion latency measures | |
1427 | how long it took for the other end to receive and send back. | |
1428 | ||
d54fce84 DM |
1429 | [e4defrag] donorname=str |
1430 | File will be used as a block donor(swap extents between files) | |
1431 | [e4defrag] inplace=int | |
66c098b8 | 1432 | Configure donor file blocks allocation strategy |
d54fce84 DM |
1433 | 0(default): Preallocate donor's file on init |
1434 | 1 : allocate space immidietly inside defragment event, | |
1435 | and free right after event | |
1436 | ||
de890a1e SL |
1437 | |
1438 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
1439 | 6.0 Interpreting the output |
1440 | --------------------------- | |
1441 | ||
1442 | fio spits out a lot of output. While running, fio will display the | |
1443 | status of the jobs created. An example of that would be: | |
1444 | ||
73c8b082 | 1445 | Threads: 1: [_r] [24.8% done] [ 13509/ 8334 kb/s] [eta 00h:01m:31s] |
71bfa161 JA |
1446 | |
1447 | The characters inside the square brackets denote the current status of | |
1448 | each thread. The possible values (in typical life cycle order) are: | |
1449 | ||
1450 | Idle Run | |
1451 | ---- --- | |
1452 | P Thread setup, but not started. | |
1453 | C Thread created. | |
9c6f6316 | 1454 | I Thread initialized, waiting or generating necessary data. |
b0f65863 | 1455 | p Thread running pre-reading file(s). |
71bfa161 JA |
1456 | R Running, doing sequential reads. |
1457 | r Running, doing random reads. | |
1458 | W Running, doing sequential writes. | |
1459 | w Running, doing random writes. | |
1460 | M Running, doing mixed sequential reads/writes. | |
1461 | m Running, doing mixed random reads/writes. | |
1462 | F Running, currently waiting for fsync() | |
fc6bd43c | 1463 | V Running, doing verification of written data. |
71bfa161 | 1464 | E Thread exited, not reaped by main thread yet. |
4f7e57a4 JA |
1465 | _ Thread reaped, or |
1466 | X Thread reaped, exited with an error. | |
a5e371a6 | 1467 | K Thread reaped, exited due to signal. |
71bfa161 JA |
1468 | |
1469 | The other values are fairly self explanatory - number of threads | |
c9f60304 JA |
1470 | currently running and doing io, rate of io since last check (read speed |
1471 | listed first, then write speed), and the estimated completion percentage | |
1472 | and time for the running group. It's impossible to estimate runtime of | |
4f7e57a4 JA |
1473 | the following groups (if any). Note that the string is displayed in order, |
1474 | so it's possible to tell which of the jobs are currently doing what. The | |
1475 | first character is the first job defined in the job file, and so forth. | |
71bfa161 JA |
1476 | |
1477 | When fio is done (or interrupted by ctrl-c), it will show the data for | |
1478 | each thread, group of threads, and disks in that order. For each data | |
1479 | direction, the output looks like: | |
1480 | ||
1481 | Client1 (g=0): err= 0: | |
35649e58 | 1482 | write: io= 32MB, bw= 666KB/s, iops=89 , runt= 50320msec |
6104ddb6 JA |
1483 | slat (msec): min= 0, max= 136, avg= 0.03, stdev= 1.92 |
1484 | clat (msec): min= 0, max= 631, avg=48.50, stdev=86.82 | |
b22989b9 | 1485 | bw (KB/s) : min= 0, max= 1196, per=51.00%, avg=664.02, stdev=681.68 |
e7823a94 | 1486 | cpu : usr=1.49%, sys=0.25%, ctx=7969, majf=0, minf=17 |
71619dc2 | 1487 | IO depths : 1=0.1%, 2=0.3%, 4=0.5%, 8=99.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >32=0.0% |
838bc709 JA |
1488 | submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% |
1489 | complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% | |
30061b97 | 1490 | issued r/w: total=0/32768, short=0/0 |
8abdce66 JA |
1491 | lat (msec): 2=1.6%, 4=0.0%, 10=3.2%, 20=12.8%, 50=38.4%, 100=24.8%, |
1492 | lat (msec): 250=15.2%, 500=0.0%, 750=0.0%, 1000=0.0%, >=2048=0.0% | |
71bfa161 JA |
1493 | |
1494 | The client number is printed, along with the group id and error of that | |
1495 | thread. Below is the io statistics, here for writes. In the order listed, | |
1496 | they denote: | |
1497 | ||
1498 | io= Number of megabytes io performed | |
1499 | bw= Average bandwidth rate | |
35649e58 | 1500 | iops= Average IOs performed per second |
71bfa161 | 1501 | runt= The runtime of that thread |
72fbda2a | 1502 | slat= Submission latency (avg being the average, stdev being the |
71bfa161 JA |
1503 | standard deviation). This is the time it took to submit |
1504 | the io. For sync io, the slat is really the completion | |
8a35c71e | 1505 | latency, since queue/complete is one operation there. This |
bf9a3edb | 1506 | value can be in milliseconds or microseconds, fio will choose |
8a35c71e | 1507 | the most appropriate base and print that. In the example |
0d237712 LAG |
1508 | above, milliseconds is the best scale. Note: in --minimal mode |
1509 | latencies are always expressed in microseconds. | |
71bfa161 JA |
1510 | clat= Completion latency. Same names as slat, this denotes the |
1511 | time from submission to completion of the io pieces. For | |
1512 | sync io, clat will usually be equal (or very close) to 0, | |
1513 | as the time from submit to complete is basically just | |
1514 | CPU time (io has already been done, see slat explanation). | |
1515 | bw= Bandwidth. Same names as the xlat stats, but also includes | |
1516 | an approximate percentage of total aggregate bandwidth | |
1517 | this thread received in this group. This last value is | |
1518 | only really useful if the threads in this group are on the | |
1519 | same disk, since they are then competing for disk access. | |
1520 | cpu= CPU usage. User and system time, along with the number | |
e7823a94 JA |
1521 | of context switches this thread went through, usage of |
1522 | system and user time, and finally the number of major | |
1523 | and minor page faults. | |
71619dc2 JA |
1524 | IO depths= The distribution of io depths over the job life time. The |
1525 | numbers are divided into powers of 2, so for example the | |
1526 | 16= entries includes depths up to that value but higher | |
1527 | than the previous entry. In other words, it covers the | |
1528 | range from 16 to 31. | |
838bc709 JA |
1529 | IO submit= How many pieces of IO were submitting in a single submit |
1530 | call. Each entry denotes that amount and below, until | |
1531 | the previous entry - eg, 8=100% mean that we submitted | |
1532 | anywhere in between 5-8 ios per submit call. | |
1533 | IO complete= Like the above submit number, but for completions instead. | |
30061b97 JA |
1534 | IO issued= The number of read/write requests issued, and how many |
1535 | of them were short. | |
ec118304 JA |
1536 | IO latencies= The distribution of IO completion latencies. This is the |
1537 | time from when IO leaves fio and when it gets completed. | |
1538 | The numbers follow the same pattern as the IO depths, | |
1539 | meaning that 2=1.6% means that 1.6% of the IO completed | |
8abdce66 JA |
1540 | within 2 msecs, 20=12.8% means that 12.8% of the IO |
1541 | took more than 10 msecs, but less than (or equal to) 20 msecs. | |
71bfa161 JA |
1542 | |
1543 | After each client has been listed, the group statistics are printed. They | |
1544 | will look like this: | |
1545 | ||
1546 | Run status group 0 (all jobs): | |
b22989b9 JA |
1547 | READ: io=64MB, aggrb=22178, minb=11355, maxb=11814, mint=2840msec, maxt=2955msec |
1548 | WRITE: io=64MB, aggrb=1302, minb=666, maxb=669, mint=50093msec, maxt=50320msec | |
71bfa161 JA |
1549 | |
1550 | For each data direction, it prints: | |
1551 | ||
1552 | io= Number of megabytes io performed. | |
1553 | aggrb= Aggregate bandwidth of threads in this group. | |
1554 | minb= The minimum average bandwidth a thread saw. | |
1555 | maxb= The maximum average bandwidth a thread saw. | |
1556 | mint= The smallest runtime of the threads in that group. | |
1557 | maxt= The longest runtime of the threads in that group. | |
1558 | ||
1559 | And finally, the disk statistics are printed. They will look like this: | |
1560 | ||
1561 | Disk stats (read/write): | |
1562 | sda: ios=16398/16511, merge=30/162, ticks=6853/819634, in_queue=826487, util=100.00% | |
1563 | ||
1564 | Each value is printed for both reads and writes, with reads first. The | |
1565 | numbers denote: | |
1566 | ||
1567 | ios= Number of ios performed by all groups. | |
1568 | merge= Number of merges io the io scheduler. | |
1569 | ticks= Number of ticks we kept the disk busy. | |
1570 | io_queue= Total time spent in the disk queue. | |
1571 | util= The disk utilization. A value of 100% means we kept the disk | |
1572 | busy constantly, 50% would be a disk idling half of the time. | |
1573 | ||
8423bd11 JA |
1574 | It is also possible to get fio to dump the current output while it is |
1575 | running, without terminating the job. To do that, send fio the USR1 signal. | |
1576 | ||
71bfa161 JA |
1577 | |
1578 | 7.0 Terse output | |
1579 | ---------------- | |
1580 | ||
1581 | For scripted usage where you typically want to generate tables or graphs | |
6af019c9 | 1582 | of the results, fio can output the results in a semicolon separated format. |
71bfa161 JA |
1583 | The format is one long line of values, such as: |
1584 | ||
562c2d2f DN |
1585 | 2;card0;0;0;7139336;121836;60004;1;10109;27.932460;116.933948;220;126861;3495.446807;1085.368601;226;126864;3523.635629;1089.012448;24063;99944;50.275485%;59818.274627;5540.657370;7155060;122104;60004;1;8338;29.086342;117.839068;388;128077;5032.488518;1234.785715;391;128085;5061.839412;1236.909129;23436;100928;50.287926%;59964.832030;5644.844189;14.595833%;19.394167%;123706;0;7313;0.1%;0.1%;0.1%;0.1%;0.1%;0.1%;100.0%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.01%;0.02%;0.05%;0.16%;6.04%;40.40%;52.68%;0.64%;0.01%;0.00%;0.01%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00%;0.00% |
1586 | A description of this job goes here. | |
1587 | ||
1588 | The job description (if provided) follows on a second line. | |
71bfa161 | 1589 | |
525c2bfa JA |
1590 | To enable terse output, use the --minimal command line option. The first |
1591 | value is the version of the terse output format. If the output has to | |
1592 | be changed for some reason, this number will be incremented by 1 to | |
1593 | signify that change. | |
6820cb3b | 1594 | |
71bfa161 JA |
1595 | Split up, the format is as follows: |
1596 | ||
5e726d0a | 1597 | terse version, fio version, jobname, groupid, error |
71bfa161 | 1598 | READ status: |
312b4af2 | 1599 | Total IO (KB), bandwidth (KB/sec), IOPS, runtime (msec) |
de196b82 JA |
1600 | Submission latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec) |
1601 | Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec) | |
1db92cb6 | 1602 | Completion latency percentiles: 20 fields (see below) |
de196b82 | 1603 | Total latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec) |
0d237712 | 1604 | Bw (KB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation |
71bfa161 | 1605 | WRITE status: |
312b4af2 | 1606 | Total IO (KB), bandwidth (KB/sec), IOPS, runtime (msec) |
de196b82 JA |
1607 | Submission latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec) |
1608 | Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec) | |
1db92cb6 | 1609 | Completion latency percentiles: 20 fields (see below) |
de196b82 | 1610 | Total latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec) |
0d237712 | 1611 | Bw (KB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation |
046ee302 | 1612 | CPU usage: user, system, context switches, major faults, minor faults |
2270890c | 1613 | IO depths: <=1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, >=64 |
562c2d2f DN |
1614 | IO latencies microseconds: <=2, 4, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000 |
1615 | IO latencies milliseconds: <=2, 4, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 2000, >=2000 | |
f2f788dd JA |
1616 | Disk utilization: Disk name, Read ios, write ios, |
1617 | Read merges, write merges, | |
1618 | Read ticks, write ticks, | |
3d7cd9b4 | 1619 | Time spent in queue, disk utilization percentage |
66c098b8 BC |
1620 | Additional Info (dependant on continue_on_error, default off): total # errors, first error code |
1621 | ||
f42195a3 | 1622 | Additional Info (dependant on description being set): Text description |
25c8b9d7 | 1623 | |
1db92cb6 JA |
1624 | Completion latency percentiles can be a grouping of up to 20 sets, so |
1625 | for the terse output fio writes all of them. Each field will look like this: | |
1626 | ||
1627 | 1.00%=6112 | |
1628 | ||
1629 | which is the Xth percentile, and the usec latency associated with it. | |
1630 | ||
f2f788dd JA |
1631 | For disk utilization, all disks used by fio are shown. So for each disk |
1632 | there will be a disk utilization section. | |
1633 | ||
25c8b9d7 PD |
1634 | |
1635 | 8.0 Trace file format | |
1636 | --------------------- | |
66c098b8 | 1637 | There are two trace file format that you can encounter. The older (v1) format |
25c8b9d7 PD |
1638 | is unsupported since version 1.20-rc3 (March 2008). It will still be described |
1639 | below in case that you get an old trace and want to understand it. | |
1640 | ||
1641 | In any case the trace is a simple text file with a single action per line. | |
1642 | ||
1643 | ||
1644 | 8.1 Trace file format v1 | |
1645 | ------------------------ | |
1646 | Each line represents a single io action in the following format: | |
1647 | ||
1648 | rw, offset, length | |
1649 | ||
1650 | where rw=0/1 for read/write, and the offset and length entries being in bytes. | |
1651 | ||
1652 | This format is not supported in Fio versions => 1.20-rc3. | |
1653 | ||
1654 | ||
1655 | 8.2 Trace file format v2 | |
1656 | ------------------------ | |
1657 | The second version of the trace file format was added in Fio version 1.17. | |
1658 | It allows to access more then one file per trace and has a bigger set of | |
1659 | possible file actions. | |
1660 | ||
1661 | The first line of the trace file has to be: | |
1662 | ||
1663 | fio version 2 iolog | |
1664 | ||
1665 | Following this can be lines in two different formats, which are described below. | |
1666 | ||
1667 | The file management format: | |
1668 | ||
1669 | filename action | |
1670 | ||
1671 | The filename is given as an absolute path. The action can be one of these: | |
1672 | ||
1673 | add Add the given filename to the trace | |
66c098b8 | 1674 | open Open the file with the given filename. The filename has to have |
25c8b9d7 PD |
1675 | been added with the add action before. |
1676 | close Close the file with the given filename. The file has to have been | |
1677 | opened before. | |
1678 | ||
1679 | ||
1680 | The file io action format: | |
1681 | ||
1682 | filename action offset length | |
1683 | ||
1684 | The filename is given as an absolute path, and has to have been added and opened | |
66c098b8 | 1685 | before it can be used with this format. The offset and length are given in |
25c8b9d7 PD |
1686 | bytes. The action can be one of these: |
1687 | ||
1688 | wait Wait for 'offset' microseconds. Everything below 100 is discarded. | |
1689 | read Read 'length' bytes beginning from 'offset' | |
1690 | write Write 'length' bytes beginning from 'offset' | |
1691 | sync fsync() the file | |
1692 | datasync fdatasync() the file | |
1693 | trim trim the given file from the given 'offset' for 'length' bytes | |
f2a2ce0e HL |
1694 | |
1695 | ||
1696 | 9.0 CPU idleness profiling | |
1697 | ||
1698 | In some cases, we want to understand CPU overhead in a test. For example, | |
1699 | we test patches for the specific goodness of whether they reduce CPU usage. | |
1700 | fio implements a balloon approach to create a thread per CPU that runs at | |
1701 | idle priority, meaning that it only runs when nobody else needs the cpu. | |
1702 | By measuring the amount of work completed by the thread, idleness of each | |
1703 | CPU can be derived accordingly. | |
1704 | ||
1705 | An unit work is defined as touching a full page of unsigned characters. Mean | |
1706 | and standard deviation of time to complete an unit work is reported in "unit | |
1707 | work" section. Options can be chosen to report detailed percpu idleness or | |
1708 | overall system idleness by aggregating percpu stats. |