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523bad63 | 1 | .TH fio 1 "August 2017" "User Manual" |
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2 | .SH NAME |
3 | fio \- flexible I/O tester | |
4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
5 | .B fio | |
6 | [\fIoptions\fR] [\fIjobfile\fR]... | |
7 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
8 | .B fio | |
9 | is a tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a | |
10 | particular type of I/O action as specified by the user. | |
11 | The typical use of fio is to write a job file matching the I/O load | |
12 | one wants to simulate. | |
13 | .SH OPTIONS | |
14 | .TP | |
49da1240 | 15 | .BI \-\-debug \fR=\fPtype |
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16 | Enable verbose tracing \fItype\fR of various fio actions. May be `all' for all \fItype\fRs |
17 | or individual types separated by a comma (e.g. `\-\-debug=file,mem' will enable | |
bdd88be3 TK |
18 | file and memory debugging). `help' will list all available tracing options. |
19 | .TP | |
7db7a5a0 | 20 | .BI \-\-parse\-only |
bdd88be3 | 21 | Parse options only, don't start any I/O. |
49da1240 | 22 | .TP |
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23 | .BI \-\-output \fR=\fPfilename |
24 | Write output to \fIfilename\fR. | |
25 | .TP | |
7db7a5a0 TK |
26 | .BI \-\-output\-format \fR=\fPformat |
27 | Set the reporting \fIformat\fR to `normal', `terse', `json', or | |
28 | `json+'. Multiple formats can be selected, separate by a comma. `terse' | |
29 | is a CSV based format. `json+' is like `json', except it adds a full | |
513e37ee | 30 | dump of the latency buckets. |
e28ee21d | 31 | .TP |
7db7a5a0 | 32 | .BI \-\-bandwidth\-log |
d23ae827 | 33 | Generate aggregate bandwidth logs. |
d60e92d1 | 34 | .TP |
7db7a5a0 TK |
35 | .BI \-\-minimal |
36 | Print statistics in a terse, semicolon\-delimited format. | |
d60e92d1 | 37 | .TP |
7db7a5a0 TK |
38 | .BI \-\-append\-terse |
39 | Print statistics in selected mode AND terse, semicolon\-delimited format. | |
40 | \fBDeprecated\fR, use \fB\-\-output\-format\fR instead to select multiple formats. | |
f6a7df53 | 41 | .TP |
065248bf | 42 | .BI \-\-terse\-version \fR=\fPversion |
7db7a5a0 | 43 | Set terse \fIversion\fR output format (default `3', or `2', `4', `5'). |
49da1240 | 44 | .TP |
7db7a5a0 | 45 | .BI \-\-version |
bdd88be3 TK |
46 | Print version information and exit. |
47 | .TP | |
7db7a5a0 | 48 | .BI \-\-help |
bdd88be3 | 49 | Print a summary of the command line options and exit. |
49da1240 | 50 | .TP |
7db7a5a0 | 51 | .BI \-\-cpuclock\-test |
bdd88be3 | 52 | Perform test and validation of internal CPU clock. |
fec0f21c | 53 | .TP |
bdd88be3 | 54 | .BI \-\-crctest \fR=\fP[test] |
7db7a5a0 | 55 | Test the speed of the built\-in checksumming functions. If no argument is given, |
bdd88be3 | 56 | all of them are tested. Alternatively, a comma separated list can be passed, in which |
fec0f21c JA |
57 | case the given ones are tested. |
58 | .TP | |
49da1240 | 59 | .BI \-\-cmdhelp \fR=\fPcommand |
bdd88be3 | 60 | Print help information for \fIcommand\fR. May be `all' for all commands. |
49da1240 | 61 | .TP |
7db7a5a0 TK |
62 | .BI \-\-enghelp \fR=\fP[ioengine[,command]] |
63 | List all commands defined by \fIioengine\fR, or print help for \fIcommand\fR | |
64 | defined by \fIioengine\fR. If no \fIioengine\fR is given, list all | |
65 | available ioengines. | |
de890a1e | 66 | .TP |
d60e92d1 | 67 | .BI \-\-showcmd \fR=\fPjobfile |
7db7a5a0 | 68 | Convert \fIjobfile\fR to a set of command\-line options. |
d60e92d1 | 69 | .TP |
bdd88be3 | 70 | .BI \-\-readonly |
7db7a5a0 | 71 | Turn on safety read\-only checks, preventing writes. The \fB\-\-readonly\fR |
bdd88be3 TK |
72 | option is an extra safety guard to prevent users from accidentally starting |
73 | a write workload when that is not desired. Fio will only write if | |
7db7a5a0 TK |
74 | `rw=write/randwrite/rw/randrw' is given. This extra safety net can be used |
75 | as an extra precaution as \fB\-\-readonly\fR will also enable a write check in | |
bdd88be3 TK |
76 | the I/O engine core to prevent writes due to unknown user space bug(s). |
77 | .TP | |
d60e92d1 | 78 | .BI \-\-eta \fR=\fPwhen |
7db7a5a0 | 79 | Specifies when real\-time ETA estimate should be printed. \fIwhen\fR may |
bdd88be3 | 80 | be `always', `never' or `auto'. |
d60e92d1 | 81 | .TP |
30b5d57f | 82 | .BI \-\-eta\-newline \fR=\fPtime |
bdd88be3 TK |
83 | Force a new line for every \fItime\fR period passed. When the unit is omitted, |
84 | the value is interpreted in seconds. | |
30b5d57f JA |
85 | .TP |
86 | .BI \-\-status\-interval \fR=\fPtime | |
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87 | Force a full status dump of cumulative (from job start) values at \fItime\fR |
88 | intervals. This option does *not* provide per-period measurements. So | |
89 | values such as bandwidth are running averages. When the time unit is omitted, | |
90 | \fItime\fR is interpreted in seconds. | |
bdd88be3 TK |
91 | .TP |
92 | .BI \-\-section \fR=\fPname | |
93 | Only run specified section \fIname\fR in job file. Multiple sections can be specified. | |
7db7a5a0 | 94 | The \fB\-\-section\fR option allows one to combine related jobs into one file. |
bdd88be3 | 95 | E.g. one job file could define light, moderate, and heavy sections. Tell |
7db7a5a0 | 96 | fio to run only the "heavy" section by giving `\-\-section=heavy' |
bdd88be3 | 97 | command line option. One can also specify the "write" operations in one |
7db7a5a0 | 98 | section and "verify" operation in another section. The \fB\-\-section\fR option |
bdd88be3 TK |
99 | only applies to job sections. The reserved *global* section is always |
100 | parsed and used. | |
c0a5d35e | 101 | .TP |
49da1240 | 102 | .BI \-\-alloc\-size \fR=\fPkb |
7db7a5a0 TK |
103 | Set the internal smalloc pool size to \fIkb\fR in KiB. The |
104 | \fB\-\-alloc\-size\fR switch allows one to use a larger pool size for smalloc. | |
bdd88be3 TK |
105 | If running large jobs with randommap enabled, fio can run out of memory. |
106 | Smalloc is an internal allocator for shared structures from a fixed size | |
107 | memory pool and can grow to 16 pools. The pool size defaults to 16MiB. | |
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108 | NOTE: While running `.fio_smalloc.*' backing store files are visible |
109 | in `/tmp'. | |
d60e92d1 | 110 | .TP |
49da1240 JA |
111 | .BI \-\-warnings\-fatal |
112 | All fio parser warnings are fatal, causing fio to exit with an error. | |
9183788d | 113 | .TP |
49da1240 | 114 | .BI \-\-max\-jobs \fR=\fPnr |
7db7a5a0 | 115 | Set the maximum number of threads/processes to support to \fInr\fR. |
7f4811bb RNS |
116 | NOTE: On Linux, it may be necessary to increase the shared-memory limit |
117 | (`/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax') if fio runs into errors while creating jobs. | |
d60e92d1 | 118 | .TP |
49da1240 | 119 | .BI \-\-server \fR=\fPargs |
7db7a5a0 TK |
120 | Start a backend server, with \fIargs\fR specifying what to listen to. |
121 | See \fBCLIENT/SERVER\fR section. | |
f57a9c59 | 122 | .TP |
49da1240 | 123 | .BI \-\-daemonize \fR=\fPpidfile |
7db7a5a0 | 124 | Background a fio server, writing the pid to the given \fIpidfile\fR file. |
49da1240 | 125 | .TP |
bdd88be3 | 126 | .BI \-\-client \fR=\fPhostname |
7db7a5a0 TK |
127 | Instead of running the jobs locally, send and run them on the given \fIhostname\fR |
128 | or set of \fIhostname\fRs. See \fBCLIENT/SERVER\fR section. | |
bdd88be3 | 129 | .TP |
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130 | .BI \-\-remote\-config \fR=\fPfile |
131 | Tell fio server to load this local \fIfile\fR. | |
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132 | .TP |
133 | .BI \-\-idle\-prof \fR=\fPoption | |
7db7a5a0 | 134 | Report CPU idleness. \fIoption\fR is one of the following: |
bdd88be3 TK |
135 | .RS |
136 | .RS | |
137 | .TP | |
138 | .B calibrate | |
139 | Run unit work calibration only and exit. | |
140 | .TP | |
141 | .B system | |
142 | Show aggregate system idleness and unit work. | |
143 | .TP | |
144 | .B percpu | |
7db7a5a0 | 145 | As \fBsystem\fR but also show per CPU idleness. |
bdd88be3 TK |
146 | .RE |
147 | .RE | |
148 | .TP | |
7db7a5a0 TK |
149 | .BI \-\-inflate\-log \fR=\fPlog |
150 | Inflate and output compressed \fIlog\fR. | |
bdd88be3 | 151 | .TP |
7db7a5a0 TK |
152 | .BI \-\-trigger\-file \fR=\fPfile |
153 | Execute trigger command when \fIfile\fR exists. | |
bdd88be3 | 154 | .TP |
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155 | .BI \-\-trigger\-timeout \fR=\fPtime |
156 | Execute trigger at this \fItime\fR. | |
bdd88be3 | 157 | .TP |
7db7a5a0 TK |
158 | .BI \-\-trigger \fR=\fPcommand |
159 | Set this \fIcommand\fR as local trigger. | |
bdd88be3 | 160 | .TP |
7db7a5a0 TK |
161 | .BI \-\-trigger\-remote \fR=\fPcommand |
162 | Set this \fIcommand\fR as remote trigger. | |
bdd88be3 | 163 | .TP |
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164 | .BI \-\-aux\-path \fR=\fPpath |
165 | Use this \fIpath\fR for fio state generated files. | |
d60e92d1 | 166 | .SH "JOB FILE FORMAT" |
7a14cf18 TK |
167 | Any parameters following the options will be assumed to be job files, unless |
168 | they match a job file parameter. Multiple job files can be listed and each job | |
7db7a5a0 | 169 | file will be regarded as a separate group. Fio will \fBstonewall\fR execution |
7a14cf18 TK |
170 | between each group. |
171 | ||
172 | Fio accepts one or more job files describing what it is | |
173 | supposed to do. The job file format is the classic ini file, where the names | |
174 | enclosed in [] brackets define the job name. You are free to use any ASCII name | |
175 | you want, except *global* which has special meaning. Following the job name is | |
176 | a sequence of zero or more parameters, one per line, that define the behavior of | |
177 | the job. If the first character in a line is a ';' or a '#', the entire line is | |
178 | discarded as a comment. | |
179 | ||
180 | A *global* section sets defaults for the jobs described in that file. A job may | |
181 | override a *global* section parameter, and a job file may even have several | |
182 | *global* sections if so desired. A job is only affected by a *global* section | |
183 | residing above it. | |
184 | ||
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185 | The \fB\-\-cmdhelp\fR option also lists all options. If used with an \fIcommand\fR |
186 | argument, \fB\-\-cmdhelp\fR will detail the given \fIcommand\fR. | |
7a14cf18 | 187 | |
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188 | See the `examples/' directory for inspiration on how to write job files. Note |
189 | the copyright and license requirements currently apply to | |
190 | `examples/' files. | |
54eb4569 TK |
191 | .SH "JOB FILE PARAMETERS" |
192 | Some parameters take an option of a given type, such as an integer or a | |
193 | string. Anywhere a numeric value is required, an arithmetic expression may be | |
194 | used, provided it is surrounded by parentheses. Supported operators are: | |
d59aa780 | 195 | .RS |
7db7a5a0 | 196 | .P |
d59aa780 | 197 | .B addition (+) |
7db7a5a0 TK |
198 | .P |
199 | .B subtraction (\-) | |
200 | .P | |
d59aa780 | 201 | .B multiplication (*) |
7db7a5a0 | 202 | .P |
d59aa780 | 203 | .B division (/) |
7db7a5a0 | 204 | .P |
d59aa780 | 205 | .B modulus (%) |
7db7a5a0 | 206 | .P |
d59aa780 JA |
207 | .B exponentiation (^) |
208 | .RE | |
d59aa780 JA |
209 | .P |
210 | For time values in expressions, units are microseconds by default. This is | |
211 | different than for time values not in expressions (not enclosed in | |
54eb4569 TK |
212 | parentheses). |
213 | .SH "PARAMETER TYPES" | |
214 | The following parameter types are used. | |
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215 | .TP |
216 | .I str | |
6b86fc18 TK |
217 | String. A sequence of alphanumeric characters. |
218 | .TP | |
219 | .I time | |
220 | Integer with possible time suffix. Without a unit value is interpreted as | |
221 | seconds unless otherwise specified. Accepts a suffix of 'd' for days, 'h' for | |
222 | hours, 'm' for minutes, 's' for seconds, 'ms' (or 'msec') for milliseconds and 'us' | |
223 | (or 'usec') for microseconds. For example, use 10m for 10 minutes. | |
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224 | .TP |
225 | .I int | |
6d500c2e RE |
226 | Integer. A whole number value, which may contain an integer prefix |
227 | and an integer suffix. | |
0b43a833 TK |
228 | .RS |
229 | .RS | |
230 | .P | |
6b86fc18 | 231 | [*integer prefix*] **number** [*integer suffix*] |
0b43a833 TK |
232 | .RE |
233 | .P | |
6b86fc18 TK |
234 | The optional *integer prefix* specifies the number's base. The default |
235 | is decimal. *0x* specifies hexadecimal. | |
0b43a833 | 236 | .P |
6b86fc18 TK |
237 | The optional *integer suffix* specifies the number's units, and includes an |
238 | optional unit prefix and an optional unit. For quantities of data, the | |
239 | default unit is bytes. For quantities of time, the default unit is seconds | |
240 | unless otherwise specified. | |
0b43a833 TK |
241 | .P |
242 | With `kb_base=1000', fio follows international standards for unit | |
7db7a5a0 | 243 | prefixes. To specify power\-of\-10 decimal values defined in the |
6b86fc18 | 244 | International System of Units (SI): |
0b43a833 TK |
245 | .RS |
246 | .P | |
7db7a5a0 | 247 | .PD 0 |
eccce61a | 248 | K means kilo (K) or 1000 |
7db7a5a0 | 249 | .P |
eccce61a | 250 | M means mega (M) or 1000**2 |
7db7a5a0 | 251 | .P |
eccce61a | 252 | G means giga (G) or 1000**3 |
7db7a5a0 | 253 | .P |
eccce61a | 254 | T means tera (T) or 1000**4 |
7db7a5a0 | 255 | .P |
eccce61a | 256 | P means peta (P) or 1000**5 |
7db7a5a0 | 257 | .PD |
0b43a833 TK |
258 | .RE |
259 | .P | |
7db7a5a0 | 260 | To specify power\-of\-2 binary values defined in IEC 80000\-13: |
0b43a833 TK |
261 | .RS |
262 | .P | |
7db7a5a0 | 263 | .PD 0 |
eccce61a | 264 | Ki means kibi (Ki) or 1024 |
7db7a5a0 | 265 | .P |
eccce61a | 266 | Mi means mebi (Mi) or 1024**2 |
7db7a5a0 | 267 | .P |
eccce61a | 268 | Gi means gibi (Gi) or 1024**3 |
7db7a5a0 | 269 | .P |
eccce61a | 270 | Ti means tebi (Ti) or 1024**4 |
7db7a5a0 | 271 | .P |
eccce61a | 272 | Pi means pebi (Pi) or 1024**5 |
7db7a5a0 | 273 | .PD |
0b43a833 TK |
274 | .RE |
275 | .P | |
276 | With `kb_base=1024' (the default), the unit prefixes are opposite | |
7db7a5a0 | 277 | from those specified in the SI and IEC 80000\-13 standards to provide |
6b86fc18 | 278 | compatibility with old scripts. For example, 4k means 4096. |
0b43a833 | 279 | .P |
6b86fc18 TK |
280 | For quantities of data, an optional unit of 'B' may be included |
281 | (e.g., 'kB' is the same as 'k'). | |
0b43a833 | 282 | .P |
6b86fc18 TK |
283 | The *integer suffix* is not case sensitive (e.g., m/mi mean mebi/mega, |
284 | not milli). 'b' and 'B' both mean byte, not bit. | |
0b43a833 TK |
285 | .P |
286 | Examples with `kb_base=1000': | |
287 | .RS | |
288 | .P | |
7db7a5a0 | 289 | .PD 0 |
6d500c2e | 290 | 4 KiB: 4096, 4096b, 4096B, 4k, 4kb, 4kB, 4K, 4KB |
7db7a5a0 | 291 | .P |
6d500c2e | 292 | 1 MiB: 1048576, 1m, 1024k |
7db7a5a0 | 293 | .P |
6d500c2e | 294 | 1 MB: 1000000, 1mi, 1000ki |
7db7a5a0 | 295 | .P |
6d500c2e | 296 | 1 TiB: 1073741824, 1t, 1024m, 1048576k |
7db7a5a0 | 297 | .P |
6d500c2e | 298 | 1 TB: 1000000000, 1ti, 1000mi, 1000000ki |
7db7a5a0 | 299 | .PD |
0b43a833 TK |
300 | .RE |
301 | .P | |
302 | Examples with `kb_base=1024' (default): | |
303 | .RS | |
304 | .P | |
7db7a5a0 | 305 | .PD 0 |
6d500c2e | 306 | 4 KiB: 4096, 4096b, 4096B, 4k, 4kb, 4kB, 4K, 4KB |
7db7a5a0 | 307 | .P |
6d500c2e | 308 | 1 MiB: 1048576, 1m, 1024k |
7db7a5a0 | 309 | .P |
6d500c2e | 310 | 1 MB: 1000000, 1mi, 1000ki |
7db7a5a0 | 311 | .P |
6d500c2e | 312 | 1 TiB: 1073741824, 1t, 1024m, 1048576k |
7db7a5a0 | 313 | .P |
6d500c2e | 314 | 1 TB: 1000000000, 1ti, 1000mi, 1000000ki |
7db7a5a0 | 315 | .PD |
0b43a833 TK |
316 | .RE |
317 | .P | |
6d500c2e | 318 | To specify times (units are not case sensitive): |
0b43a833 TK |
319 | .RS |
320 | .P | |
7db7a5a0 | 321 | .PD 0 |
6d500c2e | 322 | D means days |
7db7a5a0 | 323 | .P |
6d500c2e | 324 | H means hours |
7db7a5a0 | 325 | .P |
6d500c2e | 326 | M mean minutes |
7db7a5a0 | 327 | .P |
6d500c2e | 328 | s or sec means seconds (default) |
7db7a5a0 | 329 | .P |
6d500c2e | 330 | ms or msec means milliseconds |
7db7a5a0 | 331 | .P |
6d500c2e | 332 | us or usec means microseconds |
7db7a5a0 | 333 | .PD |
0b43a833 TK |
334 | .RE |
335 | .P | |
6b86fc18 | 336 | If the option accepts an upper and lower range, use a colon ':' or |
7db7a5a0 | 337 | minus '\-' to separate such values. See \fIirange\fR parameter type. |
6b86fc18 TK |
338 | If the lower value specified happens to be larger than the upper value |
339 | the two values are swapped. | |
0b43a833 | 340 | .RE |
d60e92d1 AC |
341 | .TP |
342 | .I bool | |
6b86fc18 TK |
343 | Boolean. Usually parsed as an integer, however only defined for |
344 | true and false (1 and 0). | |
d60e92d1 AC |
345 | .TP |
346 | .I irange | |
6b86fc18 | 347 | Integer range with suffix. Allows value range to be given, such as |
7db7a5a0 | 348 | 1024\-4096. A colon may also be used as the separator, e.g. 1k:4k. If the |
6b86fc18 | 349 | option allows two sets of ranges, they can be specified with a ',' or '/' |
7db7a5a0 | 350 | delimiter: 1k\-4k/8k\-32k. Also see \fIint\fR parameter type. |
83349190 YH |
351 | .TP |
352 | .I float_list | |
6b86fc18 | 353 | A list of floating point numbers, separated by a ':' character. |
523bad63 | 354 | .SH "JOB PARAMETERS" |
54eb4569 | 355 | With the above in mind, here follows the complete list of fio job parameters. |
523bad63 | 356 | .SS "Units" |
d60e92d1 | 357 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
358 | .BI kb_base \fR=\fPint |
359 | Select the interpretation of unit prefixes in input parameters. | |
360 | .RS | |
361 | .RS | |
d60e92d1 | 362 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
363 | .B 1000 |
364 | Inputs comply with IEC 80000\-13 and the International | |
365 | System of Units (SI). Use: | |
366 | .RS | |
367 | .P | |
368 | .PD 0 | |
369 | \- power\-of\-2 values with IEC prefixes (e.g., KiB) | |
370 | .P | |
371 | \- power\-of\-10 values with SI prefixes (e.g., kB) | |
372 | .PD | |
373 | .RE | |
374 | .TP | |
375 | .B 1024 | |
376 | Compatibility mode (default). To avoid breaking old scripts: | |
377 | .P | |
378 | .RS | |
379 | .PD 0 | |
380 | \- power\-of\-2 values with SI prefixes | |
381 | .P | |
382 | \- power\-of\-10 values with IEC prefixes | |
383 | .PD | |
384 | .RE | |
385 | .RE | |
386 | .P | |
387 | See \fBbs\fR for more details on input parameters. | |
388 | .P | |
389 | Outputs always use correct prefixes. Most outputs include both | |
390 | side\-by\-side, like: | |
391 | .P | |
392 | .RS | |
393 | bw=2383.3kB/s (2327.4KiB/s) | |
394 | .RE | |
395 | .P | |
396 | If only one value is reported, then kb_base selects the one to use: | |
397 | .P | |
398 | .RS | |
399 | .PD 0 | |
400 | 1000 \-\- SI prefixes | |
401 | .P | |
402 | 1024 \-\- IEC prefixes | |
403 | .PD | |
404 | .RE | |
405 | .RE | |
406 | .TP | |
407 | .BI unit_base \fR=\fPint | |
408 | Base unit for reporting. Allowed values are: | |
409 | .RS | |
410 | .RS | |
411 | .TP | |
412 | .B 0 | |
413 | Use auto\-detection (default). | |
414 | .TP | |
415 | .B 8 | |
416 | Byte based. | |
417 | .TP | |
418 | .B 1 | |
419 | Bit based. | |
420 | .RE | |
421 | .RE | |
422 | .SS "Job description" | |
423 | .TP | |
424 | .BI name \fR=\fPstr | |
425 | ASCII name of the job. This may be used to override the name printed by fio | |
426 | for this job. Otherwise the job name is used. On the command line this | |
427 | parameter has the special purpose of also signaling the start of a new job. | |
9cc8cb91 | 428 | .TP |
d60e92d1 | 429 | .BI description \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
430 | Text description of the job. Doesn't do anything except dump this text |
431 | description when this job is run. It's not parsed. | |
432 | .TP | |
433 | .BI loops \fR=\fPint | |
434 | Run the specified number of iterations of this job. Used to repeat the same | |
435 | workload a given number of times. Defaults to 1. | |
436 | .TP | |
437 | .BI numjobs \fR=\fPint | |
438 | Create the specified number of clones of this job. Each clone of job | |
439 | is spawned as an independent thread or process. May be used to setup a | |
440 | larger number of threads/processes doing the same thing. Each thread is | |
441 | reported separately; to see statistics for all clones as a whole, use | |
442 | \fBgroup_reporting\fR in conjunction with \fBnew_group\fR. | |
443 | See \fB\-\-max\-jobs\fR. Default: 1. | |
444 | .SS "Time related parameters" | |
445 | .TP | |
446 | .BI runtime \fR=\fPtime | |
447 | Tell fio to terminate processing after the specified period of time. It | |
448 | can be quite hard to determine for how long a specified job will run, so | |
449 | this parameter is handy to cap the total runtime to a given time. When | |
450 | the unit is omitted, the value is intepreted in seconds. | |
451 | .TP | |
452 | .BI time_based | |
453 | If set, fio will run for the duration of the \fBruntime\fR specified | |
454 | even if the file(s) are completely read or written. It will simply loop over | |
455 | the same workload as many times as the \fBruntime\fR allows. | |
456 | .TP | |
457 | .BI startdelay \fR=\fPirange(int) | |
458 | Delay the start of job for the specified amount of time. Can be a single | |
459 | value or a range. When given as a range, each thread will choose a value | |
460 | randomly from within the range. Value is in seconds if a unit is omitted. | |
461 | .TP | |
462 | .BI ramp_time \fR=\fPtime | |
463 | If set, fio will run the specified workload for this amount of time before | |
464 | logging any performance numbers. Useful for letting performance settle | |
465 | before logging results, thus minimizing the runtime required for stable | |
466 | results. Note that the \fBramp_time\fR is considered lead in time for a job, | |
467 | thus it will increase the total runtime if a special timeout or | |
468 | \fBruntime\fR is specified. When the unit is omitted, the value is | |
469 | given in seconds. | |
470 | .TP | |
471 | .BI clocksource \fR=\fPstr | |
472 | Use the given clocksource as the base of timing. The supported options are: | |
473 | .RS | |
474 | .RS | |
475 | .TP | |
476 | .B gettimeofday | |
477 | \fBgettimeofday\fR\|(2) | |
478 | .TP | |
479 | .B clock_gettime | |
480 | \fBclock_gettime\fR\|(2) | |
481 | .TP | |
482 | .B cpu | |
483 | Internal CPU clock source | |
484 | .RE | |
485 | .P | |
486 | \fBcpu\fR is the preferred clocksource if it is reliable, as it is very fast (and | |
487 | fio is heavy on time calls). Fio will automatically use this clocksource if | |
488 | it's supported and considered reliable on the system it is running on, | |
489 | unless another clocksource is specifically set. For x86/x86\-64 CPUs, this | |
490 | means supporting TSC Invariant. | |
491 | .RE | |
492 | .TP | |
493 | .BI gtod_reduce \fR=\fPbool | |
494 | Enable all of the \fBgettimeofday\fR\|(2) reducing options | |
495 | (\fBdisable_clat\fR, \fBdisable_slat\fR, \fBdisable_bw_measurement\fR) plus | |
496 | reduce precision of the timeout somewhat to really shrink the | |
497 | \fBgettimeofday\fR\|(2) call count. With this option enabled, we only do | |
498 | about 0.4% of the \fBgettimeofday\fR\|(2) calls we would have done if all | |
499 | time keeping was enabled. | |
500 | .TP | |
501 | .BI gtod_cpu \fR=\fPint | |
502 | Sometimes it's cheaper to dedicate a single thread of execution to just | |
503 | getting the current time. Fio (and databases, for instance) are very | |
504 | intensive on \fBgettimeofday\fR\|(2) calls. With this option, you can set | |
505 | one CPU aside for doing nothing but logging current time to a shared memory | |
506 | location. Then the other threads/processes that run I/O workloads need only | |
507 | copy that segment, instead of entering the kernel with a | |
508 | \fBgettimeofday\fR\|(2) call. The CPU set aside for doing these time | |
509 | calls will be excluded from other uses. Fio will manually clear it from the | |
510 | CPU mask of other jobs. | |
511 | .SS "Target file/device" | |
d60e92d1 AC |
512 | .TP |
513 | .BI directory \fR=\fPstr | |
523bad63 TK |
514 | Prefix \fBfilename\fRs with this directory. Used to place files in a different |
515 | location than `./'. You can specify a number of directories by | |
516 | separating the names with a ':' character. These directories will be | |
517 | assigned equally distributed to job clones created by \fBnumjobs\fR as | |
518 | long as they are using generated filenames. If specific \fBfilename\fR(s) are | |
519 | set fio will use the first listed directory, and thereby matching the | |
520 | \fBfilename\fR semantic which generates a file each clone if not specified, but | |
521 | let all clones use the same if set. | |
522 | .RS | |
523 | .P | |
524 | See the \fBfilename\fR option for information on how to escape ':' and '\' | |
525 | characters within the directory path itself. | |
526 | .RE | |
d60e92d1 AC |
527 | .TP |
528 | .BI filename \fR=\fPstr | |
523bad63 TK |
529 | Fio normally makes up a \fBfilename\fR based on the job name, thread number, and |
530 | file number (see \fBfilename_format\fR). If you want to share files | |
531 | between threads in a job or several | |
532 | jobs with fixed file paths, specify a \fBfilename\fR for each of them to override | |
533 | the default. If the ioengine is file based, you can specify a number of files | |
534 | by separating the names with a ':' colon. So if you wanted a job to open | |
535 | `/dev/sda' and `/dev/sdb' as the two working files, you would use | |
536 | `filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb'. This also means that whenever this option is | |
537 | specified, \fBnrfiles\fR is ignored. The size of regular files specified | |
538 | by this option will be \fBsize\fR divided by number of files unless an | |
539 | explicit size is specified by \fBfilesize\fR. | |
540 | .RS | |
541 | .P | |
542 | Each colon and backslash in the wanted path must be escaped with a '\' | |
543 | character. For instance, if the path is `/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c' then you | |
544 | would use `filename=/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\\:c' and if the path is | |
545 | `F:\\\\filename' then you would use `filename=F\\:\\\\filename'. | |
546 | .P | |
547 | On Windows, disk devices are accessed as `\\\\\\\\.\\\\PhysicalDrive0' for | |
548 | the first device, `\\\\\\\\.\\\\PhysicalDrive1' for the second etc. | |
549 | Note: Windows and FreeBSD prevent write access to areas | |
550 | of the disk containing in\-use data (e.g. filesystems). | |
551 | .P | |
552 | The filename `\-' is a reserved name, meaning *stdin* or *stdout*. Which | |
553 | of the two depends on the read/write direction set. | |
554 | .RE | |
d60e92d1 | 555 | .TP |
de98bd30 | 556 | .BI filename_format \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
557 | If sharing multiple files between jobs, it is usually necessary to have fio |
558 | generate the exact names that you want. By default, fio will name a file | |
de98bd30 | 559 | based on the default file format specification of |
523bad63 | 560 | `jobname.jobnumber.filenumber'. With this option, that can be |
de98bd30 JA |
561 | customized. Fio will recognize and replace the following keywords in this |
562 | string: | |
563 | .RS | |
564 | .RS | |
565 | .TP | |
566 | .B $jobname | |
567 | The name of the worker thread or process. | |
568 | .TP | |
569 | .B $jobnum | |
570 | The incremental number of the worker thread or process. | |
571 | .TP | |
572 | .B $filenum | |
573 | The incremental number of the file for that worker thread or process. | |
574 | .RE | |
575 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
576 | To have dependent jobs share a set of files, this option can be set to have |
577 | fio generate filenames that are shared between the two. For instance, if | |
578 | `testfiles.$filenum' is specified, file number 4 for any job will be | |
579 | named `testfiles.4'. The default of `$jobname.$jobnum.$filenum' | |
de98bd30 | 580 | will be used if no other format specifier is given. |
645943c0 JB |
581 | .P |
582 | If you specify a path then the directories will be created up to the main | |
583 | directory for the file. So for example if you specify `a/b/c/$jobnum` then the | |
584 | directories a/b/c will be created before the file setup part of the job. If you | |
585 | specify \fBdirectory\fR then the path will be relative that directory, otherwise | |
586 | it is treated as the absolute path. | |
de98bd30 | 587 | .RE |
de98bd30 | 588 | .TP |
922a5be8 | 589 | .BI unique_filename \fR=\fPbool |
523bad63 TK |
590 | To avoid collisions between networked clients, fio defaults to prefixing any |
591 | generated filenames (with a directory specified) with the source of the | |
592 | client connecting. To disable this behavior, set this option to 0. | |
593 | .TP | |
594 | .BI opendir \fR=\fPstr | |
595 | Recursively open any files below directory \fIstr\fR. | |
922a5be8 | 596 | .TP |
3ce9dcaf | 597 | .BI lockfile \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
598 | Fio defaults to not locking any files before it does I/O to them. If a file |
599 | or file descriptor is shared, fio can serialize I/O to that file to make the | |
600 | end result consistent. This is usual for emulating real workloads that share | |
601 | files. The lock modes are: | |
3ce9dcaf JA |
602 | .RS |
603 | .RS | |
604 | .TP | |
605 | .B none | |
523bad63 | 606 | No locking. The default. |
3ce9dcaf JA |
607 | .TP |
608 | .B exclusive | |
523bad63 | 609 | Only one thread or process may do I/O at a time, excluding all others. |
3ce9dcaf JA |
610 | .TP |
611 | .B readwrite | |
523bad63 TK |
612 | Read\-write locking on the file. Many readers may |
613 | access the file at the same time, but writes get exclusive access. | |
3ce9dcaf | 614 | .RE |
ce594fbe | 615 | .RE |
523bad63 TK |
616 | .TP |
617 | .BI nrfiles \fR=\fPint | |
618 | Number of files to use for this job. Defaults to 1. The size of files | |
619 | will be \fBsize\fR divided by this unless explicit size is specified by | |
620 | \fBfilesize\fR. Files are created for each thread separately, and each | |
621 | file will have a file number within its name by default, as explained in | |
622 | \fBfilename\fR section. | |
623 | .TP | |
624 | .BI openfiles \fR=\fPint | |
625 | Number of files to keep open at the same time. Defaults to the same as | |
626 | \fBnrfiles\fR, can be set smaller to limit the number simultaneous | |
627 | opens. | |
628 | .TP | |
629 | .BI file_service_type \fR=\fPstr | |
630 | Defines how fio decides which file from a job to service next. The following | |
631 | types are defined: | |
632 | .RS | |
633 | .RS | |
634 | .TP | |
635 | .B random | |
636 | Choose a file at random. | |
637 | .TP | |
638 | .B roundrobin | |
639 | Round robin over opened files. This is the default. | |
640 | .TP | |
641 | .B sequential | |
642 | Finish one file before moving on to the next. Multiple files can | |
643 | still be open depending on \fBopenfiles\fR. | |
644 | .TP | |
645 | .B zipf | |
646 | Use a Zipf distribution to decide what file to access. | |
647 | .TP | |
648 | .B pareto | |
649 | Use a Pareto distribution to decide what file to access. | |
650 | .TP | |
651 | .B normal | |
652 | Use a Gaussian (normal) distribution to decide what file to access. | |
653 | .TP | |
654 | .B gauss | |
655 | Alias for normal. | |
656 | .RE | |
3ce9dcaf | 657 | .P |
523bad63 TK |
658 | For \fBrandom\fR, \fBroundrobin\fR, and \fBsequential\fR, a postfix can be appended to |
659 | tell fio how many I/Os to issue before switching to a new file. For example, | |
660 | specifying `file_service_type=random:8' would cause fio to issue | |
661 | 8 I/Os before selecting a new file at random. For the non\-uniform | |
662 | distributions, a floating point postfix can be given to influence how the | |
663 | distribution is skewed. See \fBrandom_distribution\fR for a description | |
664 | of how that would work. | |
665 | .RE | |
666 | .TP | |
667 | .BI ioscheduler \fR=\fPstr | |
668 | Attempt to switch the device hosting the file to the specified I/O scheduler | |
669 | before running. | |
670 | .TP | |
671 | .BI create_serialize \fR=\fPbool | |
672 | If true, serialize the file creation for the jobs. This may be handy to | |
673 | avoid interleaving of data files, which may greatly depend on the filesystem | |
674 | used and even the number of processors in the system. Default: true. | |
675 | .TP | |
676 | .BI create_fsync \fR=\fPbool | |
677 | \fBfsync\fR\|(2) the data file after creation. This is the default. | |
678 | .TP | |
679 | .BI create_on_open \fR=\fPbool | |
680 | If true, don't pre\-create files but allow the job's open() to create a file | |
681 | when it's time to do I/O. Default: false \-\- pre\-create all necessary files | |
682 | when the job starts. | |
683 | .TP | |
684 | .BI create_only \fR=\fPbool | |
685 | If true, fio will only run the setup phase of the job. If files need to be | |
686 | laid out or updated on disk, only that will be done \-\- the actual job contents | |
687 | are not executed. Default: false. | |
688 | .TP | |
689 | .BI allow_file_create \fR=\fPbool | |
690 | If true, fio is permitted to create files as part of its workload. If this | |
691 | option is false, then fio will error out if | |
692 | the files it needs to use don't already exist. Default: true. | |
693 | .TP | |
694 | .BI allow_mounted_write \fR=\fPbool | |
695 | If this isn't set, fio will abort jobs that are destructive (e.g. that write) | |
696 | to what appears to be a mounted device or partition. This should help catch | |
697 | creating inadvertently destructive tests, not realizing that the test will | |
698 | destroy data on the mounted file system. Note that some platforms don't allow | |
699 | writing against a mounted device regardless of this option. Default: false. | |
700 | .TP | |
701 | .BI pre_read \fR=\fPbool | |
702 | If this is given, files will be pre\-read into memory before starting the | |
703 | given I/O operation. This will also clear the \fBinvalidate\fR flag, | |
704 | since it is pointless to pre\-read and then drop the cache. This will only | |
705 | work for I/O engines that are seek\-able, since they allow you to read the | |
706 | same data multiple times. Thus it will not work on non\-seekable I/O engines | |
707 | (e.g. network, splice). Default: false. | |
708 | .TP | |
709 | .BI unlink \fR=\fPbool | |
710 | Unlink the job files when done. Not the default, as repeated runs of that | |
711 | job would then waste time recreating the file set again and again. Default: | |
712 | false. | |
713 | .TP | |
714 | .BI unlink_each_loop \fR=\fPbool | |
715 | Unlink job files after each iteration or loop. Default: false. | |
716 | .TP | |
717 | .BI zonesize \fR=\fPint | |
718 | Divide a file into zones of the specified size. See \fBzoneskip\fR. | |
719 | .TP | |
720 | .BI zonerange \fR=\fPint | |
721 | Give size of an I/O zone. See \fBzoneskip\fR. | |
722 | .TP | |
723 | .BI zoneskip \fR=\fPint | |
724 | Skip the specified number of bytes when \fBzonesize\fR data has been | |
725 | read. The two zone options can be used to only do I/O on zones of a file. | |
726 | .SS "I/O type" | |
727 | .TP | |
728 | .BI direct \fR=\fPbool | |
729 | If value is true, use non\-buffered I/O. This is usually O_DIRECT. Note that | |
8e889110 | 730 | OpenBSD and ZFS on Solaris don't support direct I/O. On Windows the synchronous |
523bad63 TK |
731 | ioengines don't support direct I/O. Default: false. |
732 | .TP | |
733 | .BI atomic \fR=\fPbool | |
734 | If value is true, attempt to use atomic direct I/O. Atomic writes are | |
735 | guaranteed to be stable once acknowledged by the operating system. Only | |
736 | Linux supports O_ATOMIC right now. | |
737 | .TP | |
738 | .BI buffered \fR=\fPbool | |
739 | If value is true, use buffered I/O. This is the opposite of the | |
740 | \fBdirect\fR option. Defaults to true. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
741 | .TP |
742 | .BI readwrite \fR=\fPstr "\fR,\fP rw" \fR=\fPstr | |
523bad63 | 743 | Type of I/O pattern. Accepted values are: |
d60e92d1 AC |
744 | .RS |
745 | .RS | |
746 | .TP | |
747 | .B read | |
d1429b5c | 748 | Sequential reads. |
d60e92d1 AC |
749 | .TP |
750 | .B write | |
d1429b5c | 751 | Sequential writes. |
d60e92d1 | 752 | .TP |
fa769d44 | 753 | .B trim |
169c098d | 754 | Sequential trims (Linux block devices only). |
fa769d44 | 755 | .TP |
d60e92d1 | 756 | .B randread |
d1429b5c | 757 | Random reads. |
d60e92d1 AC |
758 | .TP |
759 | .B randwrite | |
d1429b5c | 760 | Random writes. |
d60e92d1 | 761 | .TP |
fa769d44 | 762 | .B randtrim |
169c098d | 763 | Random trims (Linux block devices only). |
fa769d44 | 764 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
765 | .B rw,readwrite |
766 | Sequential mixed reads and writes. | |
d60e92d1 | 767 | .TP |
ff6bb260 | 768 | .B randrw |
523bad63 | 769 | Random mixed reads and writes. |
82a90686 JA |
770 | .TP |
771 | .B trimwrite | |
523bad63 TK |
772 | Sequential trim+write sequences. Blocks will be trimmed first, |
773 | then the same blocks will be written to. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
774 | .RE |
775 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
776 | Fio defaults to read if the option is not specified. For the mixed I/O |
777 | types, the default is to split them 50/50. For certain types of I/O the | |
778 | result may still be skewed a bit, since the speed may be different. | |
779 | .P | |
780 | It is possible to specify the number of I/Os to do before getting a new | |
781 | offset by appending `:<nr>' to the end of the string given. For a | |
782 | random read, it would look like `rw=randread:8' for passing in an offset | |
783 | modifier with a value of 8. If the suffix is used with a sequential I/O | |
784 | pattern, then the `<nr>' value specified will be added to the generated | |
785 | offset for each I/O turning sequential I/O into sequential I/O with holes. | |
786 | For instance, using `rw=write:4k' will skip 4k for every write. Also see | |
787 | the \fBrw_sequencer\fR option. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
788 | .RE |
789 | .TP | |
38dad62d | 790 | .BI rw_sequencer \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
791 | If an offset modifier is given by appending a number to the `rw=\fIstr\fR' |
792 | line, then this option controls how that number modifies the I/O offset | |
793 | being generated. Accepted values are: | |
38dad62d JA |
794 | .RS |
795 | .RS | |
796 | .TP | |
797 | .B sequential | |
523bad63 | 798 | Generate sequential offset. |
38dad62d JA |
799 | .TP |
800 | .B identical | |
523bad63 | 801 | Generate the same offset. |
38dad62d JA |
802 | .RE |
803 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
804 | \fBsequential\fR is only useful for random I/O, where fio would normally |
805 | generate a new random offset for every I/O. If you append e.g. 8 to randread, | |
806 | you would get a new random offset for every 8 I/Os. The result would be a | |
807 | seek for only every 8 I/Os, instead of for every I/O. Use `rw=randread:8' | |
808 | to specify that. As sequential I/O is already sequential, setting | |
809 | \fBsequential\fR for that would not result in any differences. \fBidentical\fR | |
810 | behaves in a similar fashion, except it sends the same offset 8 number of | |
811 | times before generating a new offset. | |
38dad62d | 812 | .RE |
90fef2d1 | 813 | .TP |
771e58be JA |
814 | .BI unified_rw_reporting \fR=\fPbool |
815 | Fio normally reports statistics on a per data direction basis, meaning that | |
523bad63 TK |
816 | reads, writes, and trims are accounted and reported separately. If this |
817 | option is set fio sums the results and report them as "mixed" instead. | |
771e58be | 818 | .TP |
d60e92d1 | 819 | .BI randrepeat \fR=\fPbool |
523bad63 TK |
820 | Seed the random number generator used for random I/O patterns in a |
821 | predictable way so the pattern is repeatable across runs. Default: true. | |
56e2a5fc CE |
822 | .TP |
823 | .BI allrandrepeat \fR=\fPbool | |
824 | Seed all random number generators in a predictable way so results are | |
523bad63 | 825 | repeatable across runs. Default: false. |
d60e92d1 | 826 | .TP |
04778baf JA |
827 | .BI randseed \fR=\fPint |
828 | Seed the random number generators based on this seed value, to be able to | |
829 | control what sequence of output is being generated. If not set, the random | |
830 | sequence depends on the \fBrandrepeat\fR setting. | |
831 | .TP | |
a596f047 | 832 | .BI fallocate \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
833 | Whether pre\-allocation is performed when laying down files. |
834 | Accepted values are: | |
a596f047 EG |
835 | .RS |
836 | .RS | |
837 | .TP | |
838 | .B none | |
523bad63 | 839 | Do not pre\-allocate space. |
a596f047 | 840 | .TP |
2c3e17be | 841 | .B native |
523bad63 TK |
842 | Use a platform's native pre\-allocation call but fall back to |
843 | \fBnone\fR behavior if it fails/is not implemented. | |
2c3e17be | 844 | .TP |
a596f047 | 845 | .B posix |
523bad63 | 846 | Pre\-allocate via \fBposix_fallocate\fR\|(3). |
a596f047 EG |
847 | .TP |
848 | .B keep | |
523bad63 TK |
849 | Pre\-allocate via \fBfallocate\fR\|(2) with |
850 | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set. | |
a596f047 EG |
851 | .TP |
852 | .B 0 | |
523bad63 | 853 | Backward\-compatible alias for \fBnone\fR. |
a596f047 EG |
854 | .TP |
855 | .B 1 | |
523bad63 | 856 | Backward\-compatible alias for \fBposix\fR. |
a596f047 EG |
857 | .RE |
858 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
859 | May not be available on all supported platforms. \fBkeep\fR is only available |
860 | on Linux. If using ZFS on Solaris this cannot be set to \fBposix\fR | |
861 | because ZFS doesn't support pre\-allocation. Default: \fBnative\fR if any | |
862 | pre\-allocation methods are available, \fBnone\fR if not. | |
a596f047 | 863 | .RE |
7bc8c2cf | 864 | .TP |
ecb2083d | 865 | .BI fadvise_hint \fR=\fPstr |
cf145d90 | 866 | Use \fBposix_fadvise\fR\|(2) to advise the kernel what I/O patterns |
ecb2083d JA |
867 | are likely to be issued. Accepted values are: |
868 | .RS | |
869 | .RS | |
870 | .TP | |
871 | .B 0 | |
872 | Backwards compatible hint for "no hint". | |
873 | .TP | |
874 | .B 1 | |
875 | Backwards compatible hint for "advise with fio workload type". This | |
523bad63 | 876 | uses FADV_RANDOM for a random workload, and FADV_SEQUENTIAL |
ecb2083d JA |
877 | for a sequential workload. |
878 | .TP | |
879 | .B sequential | |
523bad63 | 880 | Advise using FADV_SEQUENTIAL. |
ecb2083d JA |
881 | .TP |
882 | .B random | |
523bad63 | 883 | Advise using FADV_RANDOM. |
ecb2083d JA |
884 | .RE |
885 | .RE | |
d60e92d1 | 886 | .TP |
8f4b9f24 | 887 | .BI write_hint \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
888 | Use \fBfcntl\fR\|(2) to advise the kernel what life time to expect |
889 | from a write. Only supported on Linux, as of version 4.13. Accepted | |
8f4b9f24 JA |
890 | values are: |
891 | .RS | |
892 | .RS | |
893 | .TP | |
894 | .B none | |
895 | No particular life time associated with this file. | |
896 | .TP | |
897 | .B short | |
898 | Data written to this file has a short life time. | |
899 | .TP | |
900 | .B medium | |
901 | Data written to this file has a medium life time. | |
902 | .TP | |
903 | .B long | |
904 | Data written to this file has a long life time. | |
905 | .TP | |
906 | .B extreme | |
907 | Data written to this file has a very long life time. | |
908 | .RE | |
523bad63 TK |
909 | .P |
910 | The values are all relative to each other, and no absolute meaning | |
911 | should be associated with them. | |
8f4b9f24 | 912 | .RE |
37659335 | 913 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
914 | .BI offset \fR=\fPint |
915 | Start I/O at the provided offset in the file, given as either a fixed size in | |
83c8b093 JF |
916 | bytes or a percentage. If a percentage is given, the generated offset will be |
917 | aligned to the minimum \fBblocksize\fR or to the value of \fBoffset_align\fR if | |
918 | provided. Data before the given offset will not be touched. This | |
523bad63 TK |
919 | effectively caps the file size at `real_size \- offset'. Can be combined with |
920 | \fBsize\fR to constrain the start and end range of the I/O workload. | |
921 | A percentage can be specified by a number between 1 and 100 followed by '%', | |
922 | for example, `offset=20%' to specify 20%. | |
6d500c2e | 923 | .TP |
83c8b093 JF |
924 | .BI offset_align \fR=\fPint |
925 | If set to non-zero value, the byte offset generated by a percentage \fBoffset\fR | |
926 | is aligned upwards to this value. Defaults to 0 meaning that a percentage | |
927 | offset is aligned to the minimum block size. | |
928 | .TP | |
523bad63 TK |
929 | .BI offset_increment \fR=\fPint |
930 | If this is provided, then the real offset becomes `\fBoffset\fR + \fBoffset_increment\fR | |
931 | * thread_number', where the thread number is a counter that starts at 0 and | |
932 | is incremented for each sub\-job (i.e. when \fBnumjobs\fR option is | |
933 | specified). This option is useful if there are several jobs which are | |
934 | intended to operate on a file in parallel disjoint segments, with even | |
935 | spacing between the starting points. | |
6d500c2e | 936 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
937 | .BI number_ios \fR=\fPint |
938 | Fio will normally perform I/Os until it has exhausted the size of the region | |
939 | set by \fBsize\fR, or if it exhaust the allocated time (or hits an error | |
940 | condition). With this setting, the range/size can be set independently of | |
941 | the number of I/Os to perform. When fio reaches this number, it will exit | |
942 | normally and report status. Note that this does not extend the amount of I/O | |
943 | that will be done, it will only stop fio if this condition is met before | |
944 | other end\-of\-job criteria. | |
d60e92d1 | 945 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
946 | .BI fsync \fR=\fPint |
947 | If writing to a file, issue an \fBfsync\fR\|(2) (or its equivalent) of | |
948 | the dirty data for every number of blocks given. For example, if you give 32 | |
949 | as a parameter, fio will sync the file after every 32 writes issued. If fio is | |
950 | using non\-buffered I/O, we may not sync the file. The exception is the sg | |
951 | I/O engine, which synchronizes the disk cache anyway. Defaults to 0, which | |
952 | means fio does not periodically issue and wait for a sync to complete. Also | |
953 | see \fBend_fsync\fR and \fBfsync_on_close\fR. | |
6d500c2e | 954 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
955 | .BI fdatasync \fR=\fPint |
956 | Like \fBfsync\fR but uses \fBfdatasync\fR\|(2) to only sync data and | |
957 | not metadata blocks. In Windows, FreeBSD, and DragonFlyBSD there is no | |
958 | \fBfdatasync\fR\|(2) so this falls back to using \fBfsync\fR\|(2). | |
959 | Defaults to 0, which means fio does not periodically issue and wait for a | |
960 | data\-only sync to complete. | |
d60e92d1 | 961 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
962 | .BI write_barrier \fR=\fPint |
963 | Make every N\-th write a barrier write. | |
901bb994 | 964 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
965 | .BI sync_file_range \fR=\fPstr:int |
966 | Use \fBsync_file_range\fR\|(2) for every \fIint\fR number of write | |
967 | operations. Fio will track range of writes that have happened since the last | |
968 | \fBsync_file_range\fR\|(2) call. \fIstr\fR can currently be one or more of: | |
969 | .RS | |
970 | .RS | |
fd68418e | 971 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
972 | .B wait_before |
973 | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE | |
c5751c62 | 974 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
975 | .B write |
976 | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE | |
c5751c62 | 977 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
978 | .B wait_after |
979 | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE_AFTER | |
2fa5a241 | 980 | .RE |
523bad63 TK |
981 | .P |
982 | So if you do `sync_file_range=wait_before,write:8', fio would use | |
983 | `SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE' for every 8 | |
984 | writes. Also see the \fBsync_file_range\fR\|(2) man page. This option is | |
985 | Linux specific. | |
2fa5a241 | 986 | .RE |
ce35b1ec | 987 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
988 | .BI overwrite \fR=\fPbool |
989 | If true, writes to a file will always overwrite existing data. If the file | |
990 | doesn't already exist, it will be created before the write phase begins. If | |
991 | the file exists and is large enough for the specified write phase, nothing | |
992 | will be done. Default: false. | |
5c94b008 | 993 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
994 | .BI end_fsync \fR=\fPbool |
995 | If true, \fBfsync\fR\|(2) file contents when a write stage has completed. | |
996 | Default: false. | |
d60e92d1 | 997 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
998 | .BI fsync_on_close \fR=\fPbool |
999 | If true, fio will \fBfsync\fR\|(2) a dirty file on close. This differs | |
1000 | from \fBend_fsync\fR in that it will happen on every file close, not | |
1001 | just at the end of the job. Default: false. | |
d60e92d1 | 1002 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1003 | .BI rwmixread \fR=\fPint |
1004 | Percentage of a mixed workload that should be reads. Default: 50. | |
1005 | .TP | |
1006 | .BI rwmixwrite \fR=\fPint | |
1007 | Percentage of a mixed workload that should be writes. If both | |
1008 | \fBrwmixread\fR and \fBrwmixwrite\fR is given and the values do not | |
1009 | add up to 100%, the latter of the two will be used to override the | |
1010 | first. This may interfere with a given rate setting, if fio is asked to | |
1011 | limit reads or writes to a certain rate. If that is the case, then the | |
1012 | distribution may be skewed. Default: 50. | |
1013 | .TP | |
1014 | .BI random_distribution \fR=\fPstr:float[,str:float][,str:float] | |
1015 | By default, fio will use a completely uniform random distribution when asked | |
1016 | to perform random I/O. Sometimes it is useful to skew the distribution in | |
1017 | specific ways, ensuring that some parts of the data is more hot than others. | |
1018 | fio includes the following distribution models: | |
d60e92d1 AC |
1019 | .RS |
1020 | .RS | |
1021 | .TP | |
1022 | .B random | |
523bad63 | 1023 | Uniform random distribution |
8c07860d JA |
1024 | .TP |
1025 | .B zipf | |
523bad63 | 1026 | Zipf distribution |
8c07860d JA |
1027 | .TP |
1028 | .B pareto | |
523bad63 | 1029 | Pareto distribution |
8c07860d | 1030 | .TP |
dd3503d3 | 1031 | .B normal |
523bad63 | 1032 | Normal (Gaussian) distribution |
dd3503d3 | 1033 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1034 | .B zoned |
1035 | Zoned random distribution | |
d60e92d1 AC |
1036 | .RE |
1037 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
1038 | When using a \fBzipf\fR or \fBpareto\fR distribution, an input value is also |
1039 | needed to define the access pattern. For \fBzipf\fR, this is the `Zipf theta'. | |
1040 | For \fBpareto\fR, it's the `Pareto power'. Fio includes a test | |
1041 | program, \fBfio\-genzipf\fR, that can be used visualize what the given input | |
1042 | values will yield in terms of hit rates. If you wanted to use \fBzipf\fR with | |
1043 | a `theta' of 1.2, you would use `random_distribution=zipf:1.2' as the | |
1044 | option. If a non\-uniform model is used, fio will disable use of the random | |
1045 | map. For the \fBnormal\fR distribution, a normal (Gaussian) deviation is | |
1046 | supplied as a value between 0 and 100. | |
1047 | .P | |
1048 | For a \fBzoned\fR distribution, fio supports specifying percentages of I/O | |
1049 | access that should fall within what range of the file or device. For | |
1050 | example, given a criteria of: | |
d60e92d1 | 1051 | .RS |
523bad63 TK |
1052 | .P |
1053 | .PD 0 | |
1054 | 60% of accesses should be to the first 10% | |
1055 | .P | |
1056 | 30% of accesses should be to the next 20% | |
1057 | .P | |
1058 | 8% of accesses should be to the next 30% | |
1059 | .P | |
1060 | 2% of accesses should be to the next 40% | |
1061 | .PD | |
1062 | .RE | |
1063 | .P | |
1064 | we can define that through zoning of the random accesses. For the above | |
1065 | example, the user would do: | |
1066 | .RS | |
1067 | .P | |
1068 | random_distribution=zoned:60/10:30/20:8/30:2/40 | |
1069 | .RE | |
1070 | .P | |
1071 | similarly to how \fBbssplit\fR works for setting ranges and percentages | |
1072 | of block sizes. Like \fBbssplit\fR, it's possible to specify separate | |
1073 | zones for reads, writes, and trims. If just one set is given, it'll apply to | |
1074 | all of them. | |
1075 | .RE | |
1076 | .TP | |
1077 | .BI percentage_random \fR=\fPint[,int][,int] | |
1078 | For a random workload, set how big a percentage should be random. This | |
1079 | defaults to 100%, in which case the workload is fully random. It can be set | |
1080 | from anywhere from 0 to 100. Setting it to 0 would make the workload fully | |
1081 | sequential. Any setting in between will result in a random mix of sequential | |
1082 | and random I/O, at the given percentages. Comma\-separated values may be | |
1083 | specified for reads, writes, and trims as described in \fBblocksize\fR. | |
1084 | .TP | |
1085 | .BI norandommap | |
1086 | Normally fio will cover every block of the file when doing random I/O. If | |
1087 | this option is given, fio will just get a new random offset without looking | |
1088 | at past I/O history. This means that some blocks may not be read or written, | |
1089 | and that some blocks may be read/written more than once. If this option is | |
1090 | used with \fBverify\fR and multiple blocksizes (via \fBbsrange\fR), | |
1091 | only intact blocks are verified, i.e., partially\-overwritten blocks are | |
1092 | ignored. | |
1093 | .TP | |
1094 | .BI softrandommap \fR=\fPbool | |
1095 | See \fBnorandommap\fR. If fio runs with the random block map enabled and | |
1096 | it fails to allocate the map, if this option is set it will continue without | |
1097 | a random block map. As coverage will not be as complete as with random maps, | |
1098 | this option is disabled by default. | |
1099 | .TP | |
1100 | .BI random_generator \fR=\fPstr | |
1101 | Fio supports the following engines for generating I/O offsets for random I/O: | |
1102 | .RS | |
1103 | .RS | |
1104 | .TP | |
1105 | .B tausworthe | |
1106 | Strong 2^88 cycle random number generator. | |
1107 | .TP | |
1108 | .B lfsr | |
1109 | Linear feedback shift register generator. | |
1110 | .TP | |
1111 | .B tausworthe64 | |
1112 | Strong 64\-bit 2^258 cycle random number generator. | |
1113 | .RE | |
1114 | .P | |
1115 | \fBtausworthe\fR is a strong random number generator, but it requires tracking | |
1116 | on the side if we want to ensure that blocks are only read or written | |
1117 | once. \fBlfsr\fR guarantees that we never generate the same offset twice, and | |
1118 | it's also less computationally expensive. It's not a true random generator, | |
1119 | however, though for I/O purposes it's typically good enough. \fBlfsr\fR only | |
1120 | works with single block sizes, not with workloads that use multiple block | |
1121 | sizes. If used with such a workload, fio may read or write some blocks | |
1122 | multiple times. The default value is \fBtausworthe\fR, unless the required | |
1123 | space exceeds 2^32 blocks. If it does, then \fBtausworthe64\fR is | |
1124 | selected automatically. | |
1125 | .RE | |
1126 | .SS "Block size" | |
1127 | .TP | |
1128 | .BI blocksize \fR=\fPint[,int][,int] "\fR,\fB bs" \fR=\fPint[,int][,int] | |
1129 | The block size in bytes used for I/O units. Default: 4096. A single value | |
1130 | applies to reads, writes, and trims. Comma\-separated values may be | |
1131 | specified for reads, writes, and trims. A value not terminated in a comma | |
1132 | applies to subsequent types. Examples: | |
1133 | .RS | |
1134 | .RS | |
1135 | .P | |
1136 | .PD 0 | |
1137 | bs=256k means 256k for reads, writes and trims. | |
1138 | .P | |
1139 | bs=8k,32k means 8k for reads, 32k for writes and trims. | |
1140 | .P | |
1141 | bs=8k,32k, means 8k for reads, 32k for writes, and default for trims. | |
1142 | .P | |
1143 | bs=,8k means default for reads, 8k for writes and trims. | |
1144 | .P | |
1145 | bs=,8k, means default for reads, 8k for writes, and default for trims. | |
1146 | .PD | |
1147 | .RE | |
1148 | .RE | |
1149 | .TP | |
1150 | .BI blocksize_range \fR=\fPirange[,irange][,irange] "\fR,\fB bsrange" \fR=\fPirange[,irange][,irange] | |
1151 | A range of block sizes in bytes for I/O units. The issued I/O unit will | |
1152 | always be a multiple of the minimum size, unless | |
1153 | \fBblocksize_unaligned\fR is set. | |
1154 | Comma\-separated ranges may be specified for reads, writes, and trims as | |
1155 | described in \fBblocksize\fR. Example: | |
1156 | .RS | |
1157 | .RS | |
1158 | .P | |
1159 | bsrange=1k\-4k,2k\-8k | |
1160 | .RE | |
1161 | .RE | |
1162 | .TP | |
1163 | .BI bssplit \fR=\fPstr[,str][,str] | |
1164 | Sometimes you want even finer grained control of the block sizes issued, not | |
1165 | just an even split between them. This option allows you to weight various | |
1166 | block sizes, so that you are able to define a specific amount of block sizes | |
1167 | issued. The format for this option is: | |
1168 | .RS | |
1169 | .RS | |
1170 | .P | |
1171 | bssplit=blocksize/percentage:blocksize/percentage | |
1172 | .RE | |
1173 | .P | |
1174 | for as many block sizes as needed. So if you want to define a workload that | |
1175 | has 50% 64k blocks, 10% 4k blocks, and 40% 32k blocks, you would write: | |
1176 | .RS | |
1177 | .P | |
1178 | bssplit=4k/10:64k/50:32k/40 | |
1179 | .RE | |
1180 | .P | |
1181 | Ordering does not matter. If the percentage is left blank, fio will fill in | |
1182 | the remaining values evenly. So a bssplit option like this one: | |
1183 | .RS | |
1184 | .P | |
1185 | bssplit=4k/50:1k/:32k/ | |
1186 | .RE | |
1187 | .P | |
1188 | would have 50% 4k ios, and 25% 1k and 32k ios. The percentages always add up | |
1189 | to 100, if bssplit is given a range that adds up to more, it will error out. | |
1190 | .P | |
1191 | Comma\-separated values may be specified for reads, writes, and trims as | |
1192 | described in \fBblocksize\fR. | |
1193 | .P | |
1194 | If you want a workload that has 50% 2k reads and 50% 4k reads, while having | |
1195 | 90% 4k writes and 10% 8k writes, you would specify: | |
1196 | .RS | |
1197 | .P | |
1198 | bssplit=2k/50:4k/50,4k/90,8k/10 | |
1199 | .RE | |
1200 | .RE | |
1201 | .TP | |
1202 | .BI blocksize_unaligned "\fR,\fB bs_unaligned" | |
1203 | If set, fio will issue I/O units with any size within | |
1204 | \fBblocksize_range\fR, not just multiples of the minimum size. This | |
1205 | typically won't work with direct I/O, as that normally requires sector | |
1206 | alignment. | |
1207 | .TP | |
1208 | .BI bs_is_seq_rand \fR=\fPbool | |
1209 | If this option is set, fio will use the normal read,write blocksize settings | |
1210 | as sequential,random blocksize settings instead. Any random read or write | |
1211 | will use the WRITE blocksize settings, and any sequential read or write will | |
1212 | use the READ blocksize settings. | |
1213 | .TP | |
1214 | .BI blockalign \fR=\fPint[,int][,int] "\fR,\fB ba" \fR=\fPint[,int][,int] | |
1215 | Boundary to which fio will align random I/O units. Default: | |
1216 | \fBblocksize\fR. Minimum alignment is typically 512b for using direct | |
1217 | I/O, though it usually depends on the hardware block size. This option is | |
1218 | mutually exclusive with using a random map for files, so it will turn off | |
1219 | that option. Comma\-separated values may be specified for reads, writes, and | |
1220 | trims as described in \fBblocksize\fR. | |
1221 | .SS "Buffers and memory" | |
1222 | .TP | |
1223 | .BI zero_buffers | |
1224 | Initialize buffers with all zeros. Default: fill buffers with random data. | |
1225 | .TP | |
1226 | .BI refill_buffers | |
1227 | If this option is given, fio will refill the I/O buffers on every | |
1228 | submit. The default is to only fill it at init time and reuse that | |
1229 | data. Only makes sense if zero_buffers isn't specified, naturally. If data | |
1230 | verification is enabled, \fBrefill_buffers\fR is also automatically enabled. | |
1231 | .TP | |
1232 | .BI scramble_buffers \fR=\fPbool | |
1233 | If \fBrefill_buffers\fR is too costly and the target is using data | |
1234 | deduplication, then setting this option will slightly modify the I/O buffer | |
1235 | contents to defeat normal de\-dupe attempts. This is not enough to defeat | |
1236 | more clever block compression attempts, but it will stop naive dedupe of | |
1237 | blocks. Default: true. | |
1238 | .TP | |
1239 | .BI buffer_compress_percentage \fR=\fPint | |
1240 | If this is set, then fio will attempt to provide I/O buffer content (on | |
1241 | WRITEs) that compresses to the specified level. Fio does this by providing a | |
1242 | mix of random data and a fixed pattern. The fixed pattern is either zeros, | |
1243 | or the pattern specified by \fBbuffer_pattern\fR. If the pattern option | |
1244 | is used, it might skew the compression ratio slightly. Note that this is per | |
08bdeb50 JA |
1245 | block size unit, see \fBbuffer_compress_chunk\fR for setting a finer granularity |
1246 | of compressible regions. | |
523bad63 TK |
1247 | .TP |
1248 | .BI buffer_compress_chunk \fR=\fPint | |
1249 | See \fBbuffer_compress_percentage\fR. This setting allows fio to manage | |
1250 | how big the ranges of random data and zeroed data is. Without this set, fio | |
1251 | will provide \fBbuffer_compress_percentage\fR of blocksize random data, | |
1252 | followed by the remaining zeroed. With this set to some chunk size smaller | |
1253 | than the block size, fio can alternate random and zeroed data throughout the | |
08bdeb50 | 1254 | I/O buffer. This is particularly useful when bigger block sizes are used |
1de80624 | 1255 | for a job. Defaults to 512. |
523bad63 TK |
1256 | .TP |
1257 | .BI buffer_pattern \fR=\fPstr | |
1258 | If set, fio will fill the I/O buffers with this pattern or with the contents | |
1259 | of a file. If not set, the contents of I/O buffers are defined by the other | |
1260 | options related to buffer contents. The setting can be any pattern of bytes, | |
1261 | and can be prefixed with 0x for hex values. It may also be a string, where | |
1262 | the string must then be wrapped with "". Or it may also be a filename, | |
1263 | where the filename must be wrapped with '' in which case the file is | |
1264 | opened and read. Note that not all the file contents will be read if that | |
1265 | would cause the buffers to overflow. So, for example: | |
1266 | .RS | |
1267 | .RS | |
1268 | .P | |
1269 | .PD 0 | |
1270 | buffer_pattern='filename' | |
1271 | .P | |
1272 | or: | |
1273 | .P | |
1274 | buffer_pattern="abcd" | |
1275 | .P | |
1276 | or: | |
1277 | .P | |
1278 | buffer_pattern=\-12 | |
1279 | .P | |
1280 | or: | |
1281 | .P | |
1282 | buffer_pattern=0xdeadface | |
1283 | .PD | |
1284 | .RE | |
1285 | .P | |
1286 | Also you can combine everything together in any order: | |
1287 | .RS | |
1288 | .P | |
1289 | buffer_pattern=0xdeadface"abcd"\-12'filename' | |
1290 | .RE | |
1291 | .RE | |
1292 | .TP | |
1293 | .BI dedupe_percentage \fR=\fPint | |
1294 | If set, fio will generate this percentage of identical buffers when | |
1295 | writing. These buffers will be naturally dedupable. The contents of the | |
1296 | buffers depend on what other buffer compression settings have been set. It's | |
1297 | possible to have the individual buffers either fully compressible, or not at | |
1298 | all. This option only controls the distribution of unique buffers. | |
1299 | .TP | |
1300 | .BI invalidate \fR=\fPbool | |
1301 | Invalidate the buffer/page cache parts of the files to be used prior to | |
1302 | starting I/O if the platform and file type support it. Defaults to true. | |
1303 | This will be ignored if \fBpre_read\fR is also specified for the | |
1304 | same job. | |
1305 | .TP | |
1306 | .BI sync \fR=\fPbool | |
1307 | Use synchronous I/O for buffered writes. For the majority of I/O engines, | |
1308 | this means using O_SYNC. Default: false. | |
1309 | .TP | |
1310 | .BI iomem \fR=\fPstr "\fR,\fP mem" \fR=\fPstr | |
1311 | Fio can use various types of memory as the I/O unit buffer. The allowed | |
1312 | values are: | |
1313 | .RS | |
1314 | .RS | |
1315 | .TP | |
1316 | .B malloc | |
1317 | Use memory from \fBmalloc\fR\|(3) as the buffers. Default memory type. | |
1318 | .TP | |
1319 | .B shm | |
1320 | Use shared memory as the buffers. Allocated through \fBshmget\fR\|(2). | |
1321 | .TP | |
1322 | .B shmhuge | |
1323 | Same as \fBshm\fR, but use huge pages as backing. | |
1324 | .TP | |
1325 | .B mmap | |
1326 | Use \fBmmap\fR\|(2) to allocate buffers. May either be anonymous memory, or can | |
1327 | be file backed if a filename is given after the option. The format | |
1328 | is `mem=mmap:/path/to/file'. | |
1329 | .TP | |
1330 | .B mmaphuge | |
1331 | Use a memory mapped huge file as the buffer backing. Append filename | |
1332 | after mmaphuge, ala `mem=mmaphuge:/hugetlbfs/file'. | |
1333 | .TP | |
1334 | .B mmapshared | |
1335 | Same as \fBmmap\fR, but use a MMAP_SHARED mapping. | |
1336 | .TP | |
1337 | .B cudamalloc | |
1338 | Use GPU memory as the buffers for GPUDirect RDMA benchmark. | |
1339 | The \fBioengine\fR must be \fBrdma\fR. | |
1340 | .RE | |
1341 | .P | |
1342 | The area allocated is a function of the maximum allowed bs size for the job, | |
1343 | multiplied by the I/O depth given. Note that for \fBshmhuge\fR and | |
1344 | \fBmmaphuge\fR to work, the system must have free huge pages allocated. This | |
1345 | can normally be checked and set by reading/writing | |
1346 | `/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages' on a Linux system. Fio assumes a huge page | |
1347 | is 4MiB in size. So to calculate the number of huge pages you need for a | |
1348 | given job file, add up the I/O depth of all jobs (normally one unless | |
1349 | \fBiodepth\fR is used) and multiply by the maximum bs set. Then divide | |
1350 | that number by the huge page size. You can see the size of the huge pages in | |
1351 | `/proc/meminfo'. If no huge pages are allocated by having a non\-zero | |
1352 | number in `nr_hugepages', using \fBmmaphuge\fR or \fBshmhuge\fR will fail. Also | |
1353 | see \fBhugepage\-size\fR. | |
1354 | .P | |
1355 | \fBmmaphuge\fR also needs to have hugetlbfs mounted and the file location | |
1356 | should point there. So if it's mounted in `/huge', you would use | |
1357 | `mem=mmaphuge:/huge/somefile'. | |
1358 | .RE | |
1359 | .TP | |
1360 | .BI iomem_align \fR=\fPint "\fR,\fP mem_align" \fR=\fPint | |
1361 | This indicates the memory alignment of the I/O memory buffers. Note that | |
1362 | the given alignment is applied to the first I/O unit buffer, if using | |
1363 | \fBiodepth\fR the alignment of the following buffers are given by the | |
1364 | \fBbs\fR used. In other words, if using a \fBbs\fR that is a | |
1365 | multiple of the page sized in the system, all buffers will be aligned to | |
1366 | this value. If using a \fBbs\fR that is not page aligned, the alignment | |
1367 | of subsequent I/O memory buffers is the sum of the \fBiomem_align\fR and | |
1368 | \fBbs\fR used. | |
1369 | .TP | |
1370 | .BI hugepage\-size \fR=\fPint | |
1371 | Defines the size of a huge page. Must at least be equal to the system | |
1372 | setting, see `/proc/meminfo'. Defaults to 4MiB. Should probably | |
1373 | always be a multiple of megabytes, so using `hugepage\-size=Xm' is the | |
1374 | preferred way to set this to avoid setting a non\-pow\-2 bad value. | |
1375 | .TP | |
1376 | .BI lockmem \fR=\fPint | |
1377 | Pin the specified amount of memory with \fBmlock\fR\|(2). Can be used to | |
1378 | simulate a smaller amount of memory. The amount specified is per worker. | |
1379 | .SS "I/O size" | |
1380 | .TP | |
1381 | .BI size \fR=\fPint | |
1382 | The total size of file I/O for each thread of this job. Fio will run until | |
1383 | this many bytes has been transferred, unless runtime is limited by other options | |
1384 | (such as \fBruntime\fR, for instance, or increased/decreased by \fBio_size\fR). | |
1385 | Fio will divide this size between the available files determined by options | |
1386 | such as \fBnrfiles\fR, \fBfilename\fR, unless \fBfilesize\fR is | |
1387 | specified by the job. If the result of division happens to be 0, the size is | |
1388 | set to the physical size of the given files or devices if they exist. | |
1389 | If this option is not specified, fio will use the full size of the given | |
1390 | files or devices. If the files do not exist, size must be given. It is also | |
1391 | possible to give size as a percentage between 1 and 100. If `size=20%' is | |
1392 | given, fio will use 20% of the full size of the given files or devices. | |
1393 | Can be combined with \fBoffset\fR to constrain the start and end range | |
1394 | that I/O will be done within. | |
1395 | .TP | |
1396 | .BI io_size \fR=\fPint "\fR,\fB io_limit" \fR=\fPint | |
1397 | Normally fio operates within the region set by \fBsize\fR, which means | |
1398 | that the \fBsize\fR option sets both the region and size of I/O to be | |
1399 | performed. Sometimes that is not what you want. With this option, it is | |
1400 | possible to define just the amount of I/O that fio should do. For instance, | |
1401 | if \fBsize\fR is set to 20GiB and \fBio_size\fR is set to 5GiB, fio | |
1402 | will perform I/O within the first 20GiB but exit when 5GiB have been | |
1403 | done. The opposite is also possible \-\- if \fBsize\fR is set to 20GiB, | |
1404 | and \fBio_size\fR is set to 40GiB, then fio will do 40GiB of I/O within | |
1405 | the 0..20GiB region. | |
1406 | .TP | |
1407 | .BI filesize \fR=\fPirange(int) | |
1408 | Individual file sizes. May be a range, in which case fio will select sizes | |
1409 | for files at random within the given range and limited to \fBsize\fR in | |
1410 | total (if that is given). If not given, each created file is the same size. | |
1411 | This option overrides \fBsize\fR in terms of file size, which means | |
1412 | this value is used as a fixed size or possible range of each file. | |
1413 | .TP | |
1414 | .BI file_append \fR=\fPbool | |
1415 | Perform I/O after the end of the file. Normally fio will operate within the | |
1416 | size of a file. If this option is set, then fio will append to the file | |
1417 | instead. This has identical behavior to setting \fBoffset\fR to the size | |
1418 | of a file. This option is ignored on non\-regular files. | |
1419 | .TP | |
1420 | .BI fill_device \fR=\fPbool "\fR,\fB fill_fs" \fR=\fPbool | |
1421 | Sets size to something really large and waits for ENOSPC (no space left on | |
1422 | device) as the terminating condition. Only makes sense with sequential | |
1423 | write. For a read workload, the mount point will be filled first then I/O | |
1424 | started on the result. This option doesn't make sense if operating on a raw | |
1425 | device node, since the size of that is already known by the file system. | |
1426 | Additionally, writing beyond end\-of\-device will not return ENOSPC there. | |
1427 | .SS "I/O engine" | |
1428 | .TP | |
1429 | .BI ioengine \fR=\fPstr | |
1430 | Defines how the job issues I/O to the file. The following types are defined: | |
1431 | .RS | |
1432 | .RS | |
1433 | .TP | |
1434 | .B sync | |
1435 | Basic \fBread\fR\|(2) or \fBwrite\fR\|(2) | |
1436 | I/O. \fBlseek\fR\|(2) is used to position the I/O location. | |
1437 | See \fBfsync\fR and \fBfdatasync\fR for syncing write I/Os. | |
1438 | .TP | |
1439 | .B psync | |
1440 | Basic \fBpread\fR\|(2) or \fBpwrite\fR\|(2) I/O. Default on | |
1441 | all supported operating systems except for Windows. | |
1442 | .TP | |
1443 | .B vsync | |
1444 | Basic \fBreadv\fR\|(2) or \fBwritev\fR\|(2) I/O. Will emulate | |
1445 | queuing by coalescing adjacent I/Os into a single submission. | |
1446 | .TP | |
1447 | .B pvsync | |
1448 | Basic \fBpreadv\fR\|(2) or \fBpwritev\fR\|(2) I/O. | |
a46c5e01 | 1449 | .TP |
2cafffbe JA |
1450 | .B pvsync2 |
1451 | Basic \fBpreadv2\fR\|(2) or \fBpwritev2\fR\|(2) I/O. | |
1452 | .TP | |
d60e92d1 | 1453 | .B libaio |
523bad63 TK |
1454 | Linux native asynchronous I/O. Note that Linux may only support |
1455 | queued behavior with non\-buffered I/O (set `direct=1' or | |
1456 | `buffered=0'). | |
1457 | This engine defines engine specific options. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
1458 | .TP |
1459 | .B posixaio | |
523bad63 TK |
1460 | POSIX asynchronous I/O using \fBaio_read\fR\|(3) and |
1461 | \fBaio_write\fR\|(3). | |
03e20d68 BC |
1462 | .TP |
1463 | .B solarisaio | |
1464 | Solaris native asynchronous I/O. | |
1465 | .TP | |
1466 | .B windowsaio | |
38f8c318 | 1467 | Windows native asynchronous I/O. Default on Windows. |
d60e92d1 AC |
1468 | .TP |
1469 | .B mmap | |
523bad63 TK |
1470 | File is memory mapped with \fBmmap\fR\|(2) and data copied |
1471 | to/from using \fBmemcpy\fR\|(3). | |
d60e92d1 AC |
1472 | .TP |
1473 | .B splice | |
523bad63 TK |
1474 | \fBsplice\fR\|(2) is used to transfer the data and |
1475 | \fBvmsplice\fR\|(2) to transfer data from user space to the | |
1476 | kernel. | |
d60e92d1 | 1477 | .TP |
d60e92d1 | 1478 | .B sg |
523bad63 TK |
1479 | SCSI generic sg v3 I/O. May either be synchronous using the SG_IO |
1480 | ioctl, or if the target is an sg character device we use | |
1481 | \fBread\fR\|(2) and \fBwrite\fR\|(2) for asynchronous | |
1482 | I/O. Requires \fBfilename\fR option to specify either block or | |
1483 | character devices. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
1484 | .TP |
1485 | .B null | |
523bad63 TK |
1486 | Doesn't transfer any data, just pretends to. This is mainly used to |
1487 | exercise fio itself and for debugging/testing purposes. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
1488 | .TP |
1489 | .B net | |
523bad63 TK |
1490 | Transfer over the network to given `host:port'. Depending on the |
1491 | \fBprotocol\fR used, the \fBhostname\fR, \fBport\fR, | |
1492 | \fBlisten\fR and \fBfilename\fR options are used to specify | |
1493 | what sort of connection to make, while the \fBprotocol\fR option | |
1494 | determines which protocol will be used. This engine defines engine | |
1495 | specific options. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
1496 | .TP |
1497 | .B netsplice | |
523bad63 TK |
1498 | Like \fBnet\fR, but uses \fBsplice\fR\|(2) and |
1499 | \fBvmsplice\fR\|(2) to map data and send/receive. | |
1500 | This engine defines engine specific options. | |
d60e92d1 | 1501 | .TP |
53aec0a4 | 1502 | .B cpuio |
523bad63 TK |
1503 | Doesn't transfer any data, but burns CPU cycles according to the |
1504 | \fBcpuload\fR and \fBcpuchunks\fR options. Setting | |
1505 | \fBcpuload\fR\=85 will cause that job to do nothing but burn 85% | |
1506 | of the CPU. In case of SMP machines, use `numjobs=<nr_of_cpu>' | |
1507 | to get desired CPU usage, as the cpuload only loads a | |
1508 | single CPU at the desired rate. A job never finishes unless there is | |
1509 | at least one non\-cpuio job. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
1510 | .TP |
1511 | .B guasi | |
523bad63 TK |
1512 | The GUASI I/O engine is the Generic Userspace Asyncronous Syscall |
1513 | Interface approach to async I/O. See \fIhttp://www.xmailserver.org/guasi\-lib.html\fR | |
1514 | for more info on GUASI. | |
d60e92d1 | 1515 | .TP |
21b8aee8 | 1516 | .B rdma |
523bad63 TK |
1517 | The RDMA I/O engine supports both RDMA memory semantics |
1518 | (RDMA_WRITE/RDMA_READ) and channel semantics (Send/Recv) for the | |
1519 | InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP protocols. | |
d54fce84 DM |
1520 | .TP |
1521 | .B falloc | |
523bad63 TK |
1522 | I/O engine that does regular fallocate to simulate data transfer as |
1523 | fio ioengine. | |
1524 | .RS | |
1525 | .P | |
1526 | .PD 0 | |
1527 | DDIR_READ does fallocate(,mode = FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,). | |
1528 | .P | |
1529 | DIR_WRITE does fallocate(,mode = 0). | |
1530 | .P | |
1531 | DDIR_TRIM does fallocate(,mode = FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE|FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE). | |
1532 | .PD | |
1533 | .RE | |
1534 | .TP | |
1535 | .B ftruncate | |
1536 | I/O engine that sends \fBftruncate\fR\|(2) operations in response | |
1537 | to write (DDIR_WRITE) events. Each ftruncate issued sets the file's | |
1538 | size to the current block offset. \fBblocksize\fR is ignored. | |
d54fce84 DM |
1539 | .TP |
1540 | .B e4defrag | |
523bad63 TK |
1541 | I/O engine that does regular EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctls to simulate |
1542 | defragment activity in request to DDIR_WRITE event. | |
0d978694 DAG |
1543 | .TP |
1544 | .B rbd | |
523bad63 TK |
1545 | I/O engine supporting direct access to Ceph Rados Block Devices |
1546 | (RBD) via librbd without the need to use the kernel rbd driver. This | |
1547 | ioengine defines engine specific options. | |
a7c386f4 | 1548 | .TP |
1549 | .B gfapi | |
523bad63 TK |
1550 | Using GlusterFS libgfapi sync interface to direct access to |
1551 | GlusterFS volumes without having to go through FUSE. This ioengine | |
1552 | defines engine specific options. | |
cc47f094 | 1553 | .TP |
1554 | .B gfapi_async | |
523bad63 TK |
1555 | Using GlusterFS libgfapi async interface to direct access to |
1556 | GlusterFS volumes without having to go through FUSE. This ioengine | |
1557 | defines engine specific options. | |
1b10477b | 1558 | .TP |
b74e419e | 1559 | .B libhdfs |
523bad63 TK |
1560 | Read and write through Hadoop (HDFS). The \fBfilename\fR option |
1561 | is used to specify host,port of the hdfs name\-node to connect. This | |
1562 | engine interprets offsets a little differently. In HDFS, files once | |
1563 | created cannot be modified so random writes are not possible. To | |
1564 | imitate this the libhdfs engine expects a bunch of small files to be | |
1565 | created over HDFS and will randomly pick a file from them | |
1566 | based on the offset generated by fio backend (see the example | |
1567 | job file to create such files, use `rw=write' option). Please | |
1568 | note, it may be necessary to set environment variables to work | |
1569 | with HDFS/libhdfs properly. Each job uses its own connection to | |
1570 | HDFS. | |
65fa28ca DE |
1571 | .TP |
1572 | .B mtd | |
523bad63 TK |
1573 | Read, write and erase an MTD character device (e.g., |
1574 | `/dev/mtd0'). Discards are treated as erases. Depending on the | |
1575 | underlying device type, the I/O may have to go in a certain pattern, | |
1576 | e.g., on NAND, writing sequentially to erase blocks and discarding | |
1577 | before overwriting. The \fBtrimwrite\fR mode works well for this | |
65fa28ca | 1578 | constraint. |
5c4ef02e JA |
1579 | .TP |
1580 | .B pmemblk | |
523bad63 TK |
1581 | Read and write using filesystem DAX to a file on a filesystem |
1582 | mounted with DAX on a persistent memory device through the NVML | |
1583 | libpmemblk library. | |
104ee4de | 1584 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1585 | .B dev\-dax |
1586 | Read and write using device DAX to a persistent memory device (e.g., | |
1587 | /dev/dax0.0) through the NVML libpmem library. | |
d60e92d1 | 1588 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1589 | .B external |
1590 | Prefix to specify loading an external I/O engine object file. Append | |
1591 | the engine filename, e.g. `ioengine=external:/tmp/foo.o' to load | |
d243fd6d TK |
1592 | ioengine `foo.o' in `/tmp'. The path can be either |
1593 | absolute or relative. See `engines/skeleton_external.c' in the fio source for | |
1594 | details of writing an external I/O engine. | |
1216cc5a JB |
1595 | .TP |
1596 | .B filecreate | |
b71968b1 SW |
1597 | Simply create the files and do no I/O to them. You still need to set |
1598 | \fBfilesize\fR so that all the accounting still occurs, but no actual I/O will be | |
1599 | done other than creating the file. | |
523bad63 TK |
1600 | .SS "I/O engine specific parameters" |
1601 | In addition, there are some parameters which are only valid when a specific | |
1602 | \fBioengine\fR is in use. These are used identically to normal parameters, | |
1603 | with the caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the | |
1604 | \fBioengine\fR that defines them is selected. | |
d60e92d1 | 1605 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1606 | .BI (libaio)userspace_reap |
1607 | Normally, with the libaio engine in use, fio will use the | |
1608 | \fBio_getevents\fR\|(3) system call to reap newly returned events. With | |
1609 | this flag turned on, the AIO ring will be read directly from user\-space to | |
1610 | reap events. The reaping mode is only enabled when polling for a minimum of | |
1611 | 0 events (e.g. when `iodepth_batch_complete=0'). | |
3ce9dcaf | 1612 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1613 | .BI (pvsync2)hipri |
1614 | Set RWF_HIPRI on I/O, indicating to the kernel that it's of higher priority | |
1615 | than normal. | |
82407585 | 1616 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1617 | .BI (pvsync2)hipri_percentage |
1618 | When hipri is set this determines the probability of a pvsync2 I/O being high | |
1619 | priority. The default is 100%. | |
d60e92d1 | 1620 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1621 | .BI (cpuio)cpuload \fR=\fPint |
1622 | Attempt to use the specified percentage of CPU cycles. This is a mandatory | |
1623 | option when using cpuio I/O engine. | |
997b5680 | 1624 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1625 | .BI (cpuio)cpuchunks \fR=\fPint |
1626 | Split the load into cycles of the given time. In microseconds. | |
1ad01bd1 | 1627 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1628 | .BI (cpuio)exit_on_io_done \fR=\fPbool |
1629 | Detect when I/O threads are done, then exit. | |
d60e92d1 | 1630 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1631 | .BI (libhdfs)namenode \fR=\fPstr |
1632 | The hostname or IP address of a HDFS cluster namenode to contact. | |
d01612f3 | 1633 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1634 | .BI (libhdfs)port |
1635 | The listening port of the HFDS cluster namenode. | |
d60e92d1 | 1636 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1637 | .BI (netsplice,net)port |
1638 | The TCP or UDP port to bind to or connect to. If this is used with | |
1639 | \fBnumjobs\fR to spawn multiple instances of the same job type, then | |
1640 | this will be the starting port number since fio will use a range of | |
1641 | ports. | |
d60e92d1 | 1642 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1643 | .BI (netsplice,net)hostname \fR=\fPstr |
1644 | The hostname or IP address to use for TCP or UDP based I/O. If the job is | |
1645 | a TCP listener or UDP reader, the hostname is not used and must be omitted | |
1646 | unless it is a valid UDP multicast address. | |
591e9e06 | 1647 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1648 | .BI (netsplice,net)interface \fR=\fPstr |
1649 | The IP address of the network interface used to send or receive UDP | |
1650 | multicast. | |
ddf24e42 | 1651 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1652 | .BI (netsplice,net)ttl \fR=\fPint |
1653 | Time\-to\-live value for outgoing UDP multicast packets. Default: 1. | |
d60e92d1 | 1654 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1655 | .BI (netsplice,net)nodelay \fR=\fPbool |
1656 | Set TCP_NODELAY on TCP connections. | |
fa769d44 | 1657 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1658 | .BI (netsplice,net)protocol \fR=\fPstr "\fR,\fP proto" \fR=\fPstr |
1659 | The network protocol to use. Accepted values are: | |
1660 | .RS | |
e76b1da4 JA |
1661 | .RS |
1662 | .TP | |
523bad63 TK |
1663 | .B tcp |
1664 | Transmission control protocol. | |
e76b1da4 | 1665 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1666 | .B tcpv6 |
1667 | Transmission control protocol V6. | |
e76b1da4 | 1668 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1669 | .B udp |
1670 | User datagram protocol. | |
1671 | .TP | |
1672 | .B udpv6 | |
1673 | User datagram protocol V6. | |
e76b1da4 | 1674 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1675 | .B unix |
1676 | UNIX domain socket. | |
e76b1da4 JA |
1677 | .RE |
1678 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
1679 | When the protocol is TCP or UDP, the port must also be given, as well as the |
1680 | hostname if the job is a TCP listener or UDP reader. For unix sockets, the | |
1681 | normal \fBfilename\fR option should be used and the port is invalid. | |
1682 | .RE | |
1683 | .TP | |
1684 | .BI (netsplice,net)listen | |
1685 | For TCP network connections, tell fio to listen for incoming connections | |
1686 | rather than initiating an outgoing connection. The \fBhostname\fR must | |
1687 | be omitted if this option is used. | |
1688 | .TP | |
1689 | .BI (netsplice,net)pingpong | |
1690 | Normally a network writer will just continue writing data, and a network | |
1691 | reader will just consume packages. If `pingpong=1' is set, a writer will | |
1692 | send its normal payload to the reader, then wait for the reader to send the | |
1693 | same payload back. This allows fio to measure network latencies. The | |
1694 | submission and completion latencies then measure local time spent sending or | |
1695 | receiving, and the completion latency measures how long it took for the | |
1696 | other end to receive and send back. For UDP multicast traffic | |
1697 | `pingpong=1' should only be set for a single reader when multiple readers | |
1698 | are listening to the same address. | |
1699 | .TP | |
1700 | .BI (netsplice,net)window_size \fR=\fPint | |
1701 | Set the desired socket buffer size for the connection. | |
e76b1da4 | 1702 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1703 | .BI (netsplice,net)mss \fR=\fPint |
1704 | Set the TCP maximum segment size (TCP_MAXSEG). | |
d60e92d1 | 1705 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1706 | .BI (e4defrag)donorname \fR=\fPstr |
1707 | File will be used as a block donor (swap extents between files). | |
d60e92d1 | 1708 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1709 | .BI (e4defrag)inplace \fR=\fPint |
1710 | Configure donor file blocks allocation strategy: | |
1711 | .RS | |
1712 | .RS | |
d60e92d1 | 1713 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1714 | .B 0 |
1715 | Default. Preallocate donor's file on init. | |
d60e92d1 | 1716 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1717 | .B 1 |
1718 | Allocate space immediately inside defragment event, and free right | |
1719 | after event. | |
1720 | .RE | |
1721 | .RE | |
d60e92d1 | 1722 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1723 | .BI (rbd)clustername \fR=\fPstr |
1724 | Specifies the name of the Ceph cluster. | |
92d42d69 | 1725 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1726 | .BI (rbd)rbdname \fR=\fPstr |
1727 | Specifies the name of the RBD. | |
92d42d69 | 1728 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1729 | .BI (rbd)pool \fR=\fPstr |
1730 | Specifies the name of the Ceph pool containing RBD. | |
92d42d69 | 1731 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1732 | .BI (rbd)clientname \fR=\fPstr |
1733 | Specifies the username (without the 'client.' prefix) used to access the | |
1734 | Ceph cluster. If the \fBclustername\fR is specified, the \fBclientname\fR shall be | |
1735 | the full *type.id* string. If no type. prefix is given, fio will add 'client.' | |
1736 | by default. | |
92d42d69 | 1737 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1738 | .BI (mtd)skip_bad \fR=\fPbool |
1739 | Skip operations against known bad blocks. | |
8116fd24 | 1740 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1741 | .BI (libhdfs)hdfsdirectory |
1742 | libhdfs will create chunk in this HDFS directory. | |
e0a04ac1 | 1743 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1744 | .BI (libhdfs)chunk_size |
1745 | The size of the chunk to use for each file. | |
1746 | .SS "I/O depth" | |
1747 | .TP | |
1748 | .BI iodepth \fR=\fPint | |
1749 | Number of I/O units to keep in flight against the file. Note that | |
1750 | increasing \fBiodepth\fR beyond 1 will not affect synchronous ioengines (except | |
1751 | for small degrees when \fBverify_async\fR is in use). Even async | |
1752 | engines may impose OS restrictions causing the desired depth not to be | |
1753 | achieved. This may happen on Linux when using libaio and not setting | |
1754 | `direct=1', since buffered I/O is not async on that OS. Keep an | |
1755 | eye on the I/O depth distribution in the fio output to verify that the | |
1756 | achieved depth is as expected. Default: 1. | |
1757 | .TP | |
1758 | .BI iodepth_batch_submit \fR=\fPint "\fR,\fP iodepth_batch" \fR=\fPint | |
1759 | This defines how many pieces of I/O to submit at once. It defaults to 1 | |
1760 | which means that we submit each I/O as soon as it is available, but can be | |
1761 | raised to submit bigger batches of I/O at the time. If it is set to 0 the | |
1762 | \fBiodepth\fR value will be used. | |
1763 | .TP | |
1764 | .BI iodepth_batch_complete_min \fR=\fPint "\fR,\fP iodepth_batch_complete" \fR=\fPint | |
1765 | This defines how many pieces of I/O to retrieve at once. It defaults to 1 | |
1766 | which means that we'll ask for a minimum of 1 I/O in the retrieval process | |
1767 | from the kernel. The I/O retrieval will go on until we hit the limit set by | |
1768 | \fBiodepth_low\fR. If this variable is set to 0, then fio will always | |
1769 | check for completed events before queuing more I/O. This helps reduce I/O | |
1770 | latency, at the cost of more retrieval system calls. | |
1771 | .TP | |
1772 | .BI iodepth_batch_complete_max \fR=\fPint | |
1773 | This defines maximum pieces of I/O to retrieve at once. This variable should | |
1774 | be used along with \fBiodepth_batch_complete_min\fR=\fIint\fR variable, | |
1775 | specifying the range of min and max amount of I/O which should be | |
1776 | retrieved. By default it is equal to \fBiodepth_batch_complete_min\fR | |
1777 | value. Example #1: | |
e0a04ac1 | 1778 | .RS |
e0a04ac1 | 1779 | .RS |
e0a04ac1 | 1780 | .P |
523bad63 TK |
1781 | .PD 0 |
1782 | iodepth_batch_complete_min=1 | |
e0a04ac1 | 1783 | .P |
523bad63 TK |
1784 | iodepth_batch_complete_max=<iodepth> |
1785 | .PD | |
e0a04ac1 JA |
1786 | .RE |
1787 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
1788 | which means that we will retrieve at least 1 I/O and up to the whole |
1789 | submitted queue depth. If none of I/O has been completed yet, we will wait. | |
1790 | Example #2: | |
e8b1961d | 1791 | .RS |
523bad63 TK |
1792 | .P |
1793 | .PD 0 | |
1794 | iodepth_batch_complete_min=0 | |
1795 | .P | |
1796 | iodepth_batch_complete_max=<iodepth> | |
1797 | .PD | |
e8b1961d JA |
1798 | .RE |
1799 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
1800 | which means that we can retrieve up to the whole submitted queue depth, but |
1801 | if none of I/O has been completed yet, we will NOT wait and immediately exit | |
1802 | the system call. In this example we simply do polling. | |
1803 | .RE | |
e8b1961d | 1804 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1805 | .BI iodepth_low \fR=\fPint |
1806 | The low water mark indicating when to start filling the queue | |
1807 | again. Defaults to the same as \fBiodepth\fR, meaning that fio will | |
1808 | attempt to keep the queue full at all times. If \fBiodepth\fR is set to | |
1809 | e.g. 16 and \fBiodepth_low\fR is set to 4, then after fio has filled the queue of | |
1810 | 16 requests, it will let the depth drain down to 4 before starting to fill | |
1811 | it again. | |
d60e92d1 | 1812 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1813 | .BI serialize_overlap \fR=\fPbool |
1814 | Serialize in-flight I/Os that might otherwise cause or suffer from data races. | |
1815 | When two or more I/Os are submitted simultaneously, there is no guarantee that | |
1816 | the I/Os will be processed or completed in the submitted order. Further, if | |
1817 | two or more of those I/Os are writes, any overlapping region between them can | |
1818 | become indeterminate/undefined on certain storage. These issues can cause | |
1819 | verification to fail erratically when at least one of the racing I/Os is | |
1820 | changing data and the overlapping region has a non-zero size. Setting | |
1821 | \fBserialize_overlap\fR tells fio to avoid provoking this behavior by explicitly | |
1822 | serializing in-flight I/Os that have a non-zero overlap. Note that setting | |
1823 | this option can reduce both performance and the \fBiodepth\fR achieved. | |
1824 | Additionally this option does not work when \fBio_submit_mode\fR is set to | |
1825 | offload. Default: false. | |
d60e92d1 | 1826 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1827 | .BI io_submit_mode \fR=\fPstr |
1828 | This option controls how fio submits the I/O to the I/O engine. The default | |
1829 | is `inline', which means that the fio job threads submit and reap I/O | |
1830 | directly. If set to `offload', the job threads will offload I/O submission | |
1831 | to a dedicated pool of I/O threads. This requires some coordination and thus | |
1832 | has a bit of extra overhead, especially for lower queue depth I/O where it | |
1833 | can increase latencies. The benefit is that fio can manage submission rates | |
1834 | independently of the device completion rates. This avoids skewed latency | |
1835 | reporting if I/O gets backed up on the device side (the coordinated omission | |
1836 | problem). | |
1837 | .SS "I/O rate" | |
d60e92d1 | 1838 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1839 | .BI thinktime \fR=\fPtime |
1840 | Stall the job for the specified period of time after an I/O has completed before issuing the | |
1841 | next. May be used to simulate processing being done by an application. | |
1842 | When the unit is omitted, the value is interpreted in microseconds. See | |
1843 | \fBthinktime_blocks\fR and \fBthinktime_spin\fR. | |
d60e92d1 | 1844 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1845 | .BI thinktime_spin \fR=\fPtime |
1846 | Only valid if \fBthinktime\fR is set \- pretend to spend CPU time doing | |
1847 | something with the data received, before falling back to sleeping for the | |
1848 | rest of the period specified by \fBthinktime\fR. When the unit is | |
1849 | omitted, the value is interpreted in microseconds. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
1850 | .TP |
1851 | .BI thinktime_blocks \fR=\fPint | |
523bad63 TK |
1852 | Only valid if \fBthinktime\fR is set \- control how many blocks to issue, |
1853 | before waiting \fBthinktime\fR usecs. If not set, defaults to 1 which will make | |
1854 | fio wait \fBthinktime\fR usecs after every block. This effectively makes any | |
1855 | queue depth setting redundant, since no more than 1 I/O will be queued | |
1856 | before we have to complete it and do our \fBthinktime\fR. In other words, this | |
1857 | setting effectively caps the queue depth if the latter is larger. | |
d60e92d1 | 1858 | .TP |
6d500c2e | 1859 | .BI rate \fR=\fPint[,int][,int] |
523bad63 TK |
1860 | Cap the bandwidth used by this job. The number is in bytes/sec, the normal |
1861 | suffix rules apply. Comma\-separated values may be specified for reads, | |
1862 | writes, and trims as described in \fBblocksize\fR. | |
1863 | .RS | |
1864 | .P | |
1865 | For example, using `rate=1m,500k' would limit reads to 1MiB/sec and writes to | |
1866 | 500KiB/sec. Capping only reads or writes can be done with `rate=,500k' or | |
1867 | `rate=500k,' where the former will only limit writes (to 500KiB/sec) and the | |
1868 | latter will only limit reads. | |
1869 | .RE | |
d60e92d1 | 1870 | .TP |
6d500c2e | 1871 | .BI rate_min \fR=\fPint[,int][,int] |
523bad63 TK |
1872 | Tell fio to do whatever it can to maintain at least this bandwidth. Failing |
1873 | to meet this requirement will cause the job to exit. Comma\-separated values | |
1874 | may be specified for reads, writes, and trims as described in | |
1875 | \fBblocksize\fR. | |
d60e92d1 | 1876 | .TP |
6d500c2e | 1877 | .BI rate_iops \fR=\fPint[,int][,int] |
523bad63 TK |
1878 | Cap the bandwidth to this number of IOPS. Basically the same as |
1879 | \fBrate\fR, just specified independently of bandwidth. If the job is | |
1880 | given a block size range instead of a fixed value, the smallest block size | |
1881 | is used as the metric. Comma\-separated values may be specified for reads, | |
1882 | writes, and trims as described in \fBblocksize\fR. | |
d60e92d1 | 1883 | .TP |
6d500c2e | 1884 | .BI rate_iops_min \fR=\fPint[,int][,int] |
523bad63 TK |
1885 | If fio doesn't meet this rate of I/O, it will cause the job to exit. |
1886 | Comma\-separated values may be specified for reads, writes, and trims as | |
1887 | described in \fBblocksize\fR. | |
d60e92d1 | 1888 | .TP |
6de65959 | 1889 | .BI rate_process \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
1890 | This option controls how fio manages rated I/O submissions. The default is |
1891 | `linear', which submits I/O in a linear fashion with fixed delays between | |
1892 | I/Os that gets adjusted based on I/O completion rates. If this is set to | |
1893 | `poisson', fio will submit I/O based on a more real world random request | |
6de65959 | 1894 | flow, known as the Poisson process |
523bad63 | 1895 | (\fIhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_point_process\fR). The lambda will be |
5d02b083 | 1896 | 10^6 / IOPS for the given workload. |
523bad63 | 1897 | .SS "I/O latency" |
ff6bb260 | 1898 | .TP |
523bad63 | 1899 | .BI latency_target \fR=\fPtime |
3e260a46 | 1900 | If set, fio will attempt to find the max performance point that the given |
523bad63 TK |
1901 | workload will run at while maintaining a latency below this target. When |
1902 | the unit is omitted, the value is interpreted in microseconds. See | |
1903 | \fBlatency_window\fR and \fBlatency_percentile\fR. | |
3e260a46 | 1904 | .TP |
523bad63 | 1905 | .BI latency_window \fR=\fPtime |
3e260a46 | 1906 | Used with \fBlatency_target\fR to specify the sample window that the job |
523bad63 TK |
1907 | is run at varying queue depths to test the performance. When the unit is |
1908 | omitted, the value is interpreted in microseconds. | |
3e260a46 JA |
1909 | .TP |
1910 | .BI latency_percentile \fR=\fPfloat | |
523bad63 TK |
1911 | The percentage of I/Os that must fall within the criteria specified by |
1912 | \fBlatency_target\fR and \fBlatency_window\fR. If not set, this | |
1913 | defaults to 100.0, meaning that all I/Os must be equal or below to the value | |
1914 | set by \fBlatency_target\fR. | |
1915 | .TP | |
1916 | .BI max_latency \fR=\fPtime | |
1917 | If set, fio will exit the job with an ETIMEDOUT error if it exceeds this | |
1918 | maximum latency. When the unit is omitted, the value is interpreted in | |
1919 | microseconds. | |
1920 | .TP | |
1921 | .BI rate_cycle \fR=\fPint | |
1922 | Average bandwidth for \fBrate\fR and \fBrate_min\fR over this number | |
1923 | of milliseconds. Defaults to 1000. | |
1924 | .SS "I/O replay" | |
1925 | .TP | |
1926 | .BI write_iolog \fR=\fPstr | |
1927 | Write the issued I/O patterns to the specified file. See | |
1928 | \fBread_iolog\fR. Specify a separate file for each job, otherwise the | |
1929 | iologs will be interspersed and the file may be corrupt. | |
1930 | .TP | |
1931 | .BI read_iolog \fR=\fPstr | |
1932 | Open an iolog with the specified filename and replay the I/O patterns it | |
1933 | contains. This can be used to store a workload and replay it sometime | |
1934 | later. The iolog given may also be a blktrace binary file, which allows fio | |
1935 | to replay a workload captured by blktrace. See | |
1936 | \fBblktrace\fR\|(8) for how to capture such logging data. For blktrace | |
1937 | replay, the file needs to be turned into a blkparse binary data file first | |
1938 | (`blkparse <device> \-o /dev/null \-d file_for_fio.bin'). | |
3e260a46 | 1939 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
1940 | .BI replay_no_stall \fR=\fPbool |
1941 | When replaying I/O with \fBread_iolog\fR the default behavior is to | |
1942 | attempt to respect the timestamps within the log and replay them with the | |
1943 | appropriate delay between IOPS. By setting this variable fio will not | |
1944 | respect the timestamps and attempt to replay them as fast as possible while | |
1945 | still respecting ordering. The result is the same I/O pattern to a given | |
1946 | device, but different timings. | |
1947 | .TP | |
1948 | .BI replay_redirect \fR=\fPstr | |
1949 | While replaying I/O patterns using \fBread_iolog\fR the default behavior | |
1950 | is to replay the IOPS onto the major/minor device that each IOP was recorded | |
1951 | from. This is sometimes undesirable because on a different machine those | |
1952 | major/minor numbers can map to a different device. Changing hardware on the | |
1953 | same system can also result in a different major/minor mapping. | |
1954 | \fBreplay_redirect\fR causes all I/Os to be replayed onto the single specified | |
1955 | device regardless of the device it was recorded | |
1956 | from. i.e. `replay_redirect=/dev/sdc' would cause all I/O | |
1957 | in the blktrace or iolog to be replayed onto `/dev/sdc'. This means | |
1958 | multiple devices will be replayed onto a single device, if the trace | |
1959 | contains multiple devices. If you want multiple devices to be replayed | |
1960 | concurrently to multiple redirected devices you must blkparse your trace | |
1961 | into separate traces and replay them with independent fio invocations. | |
1962 | Unfortunately this also breaks the strict time ordering between multiple | |
1963 | device accesses. | |
1964 | .TP | |
1965 | .BI replay_align \fR=\fPint | |
1966 | Force alignment of I/O offsets and lengths in a trace to this power of 2 | |
1967 | value. | |
1968 | .TP | |
1969 | .BI replay_scale \fR=\fPint | |
1970 | Scale sector offsets down by this factor when replaying traces. | |
1971 | .SS "Threads, processes and job synchronization" | |
1972 | .TP | |
1973 | .BI thread | |
1974 | Fio defaults to creating jobs by using fork, however if this option is | |
1975 | given, fio will create jobs by using POSIX Threads' function | |
1976 | \fBpthread_create\fR\|(3) to create threads instead. | |
1977 | .TP | |
1978 | .BI wait_for \fR=\fPstr | |
1979 | If set, the current job won't be started until all workers of the specified | |
1980 | waitee job are done. | |
1981 | .\" ignore blank line here from HOWTO as it looks normal without it | |
1982 | \fBwait_for\fR operates on the job name basis, so there are a few | |
1983 | limitations. First, the waitee must be defined prior to the waiter job | |
1984 | (meaning no forward references). Second, if a job is being referenced as a | |
1985 | waitee, it must have a unique name (no duplicate waitees). | |
1986 | .TP | |
1987 | .BI nice \fR=\fPint | |
1988 | Run the job with the given nice value. See man \fBnice\fR\|(2). | |
1989 | .\" ignore blank line here from HOWTO as it looks normal without it | |
1990 | On Windows, values less than \-15 set the process class to "High"; \-1 through | |
1991 | \-15 set "Above Normal"; 1 through 15 "Below Normal"; and above 15 "Idle" | |
1992 | priority class. | |
1993 | .TP | |
1994 | .BI prio \fR=\fPint | |
1995 | Set the I/O priority value of this job. Linux limits us to a positive value | |
1996 | between 0 and 7, with 0 being the highest. See man | |
1997 | \fBionice\fR\|(1). Refer to an appropriate manpage for other operating | |
1998 | systems since meaning of priority may differ. | |
1999 | .TP | |
2000 | .BI prioclass \fR=\fPint | |
2001 | Set the I/O priority class. See man \fBionice\fR\|(1). | |
15501535 | 2002 | .TP |
d60e92d1 | 2003 | .BI cpumask \fR=\fPint |
523bad63 TK |
2004 | Set the CPU affinity of this job. The parameter given is a bit mask of |
2005 | allowed CPUs the job may run on. So if you want the allowed CPUs to be 1 | |
2006 | and 5, you would pass the decimal value of (1 << 1 | 1 << 5), or 34. See man | |
2007 | \fBsched_setaffinity\fR\|(2). This may not work on all supported | |
2008 | operating systems or kernel versions. This option doesn't work well for a | |
2009 | higher CPU count than what you can store in an integer mask, so it can only | |
2010 | control cpus 1\-32. For boxes with larger CPU counts, use | |
2011 | \fBcpus_allowed\fR. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2012 | .TP |
2013 | .BI cpus_allowed \fR=\fPstr | |
523bad63 TK |
2014 | Controls the same options as \fBcpumask\fR, but accepts a textual |
2015 | specification of the permitted CPUs instead. So to use CPUs 1 and 5 you | |
2016 | would specify `cpus_allowed=1,5'. This option also allows a range of CPUs | |
2017 | to be specified \-\- say you wanted a binding to CPUs 1, 5, and 8 to 15, you | |
2018 | would set `cpus_allowed=1,5,8\-15'. | |
d60e92d1 | 2019 | .TP |
c2acfbac | 2020 | .BI cpus_allowed_policy \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
2021 | Set the policy of how fio distributes the CPUs specified by |
2022 | \fBcpus_allowed\fR or \fBcpumask\fR. Two policies are supported: | |
c2acfbac JA |
2023 | .RS |
2024 | .RS | |
2025 | .TP | |
2026 | .B shared | |
2027 | All jobs will share the CPU set specified. | |
2028 | .TP | |
2029 | .B split | |
2030 | Each job will get a unique CPU from the CPU set. | |
2031 | .RE | |
2032 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
2033 | \fBshared\fR is the default behavior, if the option isn't specified. If |
2034 | \fBsplit\fR is specified, then fio will will assign one cpu per job. If not | |
2035 | enough CPUs are given for the jobs listed, then fio will roundrobin the CPUs | |
2036 | in the set. | |
c2acfbac | 2037 | .RE |
c2acfbac | 2038 | .TP |
d0b937ed | 2039 | .BI numa_cpu_nodes \fR=\fPstr |
cecbfd47 | 2040 | Set this job running on specified NUMA nodes' CPUs. The arguments allow |
523bad63 TK |
2041 | comma delimited list of cpu numbers, A\-B ranges, or `all'. Note, to enable |
2042 | NUMA options support, fio must be built on a system with libnuma\-dev(el) | |
2043 | installed. | |
d0b937ed YR |
2044 | .TP |
2045 | .BI numa_mem_policy \fR=\fPstr | |
523bad63 TK |
2046 | Set this job's memory policy and corresponding NUMA nodes. Format of the |
2047 | arguments: | |
39c7a2ca VF |
2048 | .RS |
2049 | .RS | |
523bad63 TK |
2050 | .P |
2051 | <mode>[:<nodelist>] | |
39c7a2ca | 2052 | .RE |
523bad63 TK |
2053 | .P |
2054 | `mode' is one of the following memory poicies: `default', `prefer', | |
2055 | `bind', `interleave' or `local'. For `default' and `local' memory | |
2056 | policies, no node needs to be specified. For `prefer', only one node is | |
2057 | allowed. For `bind' and `interleave' the `nodelist' may be as | |
2058 | follows: a comma delimited list of numbers, A\-B ranges, or `all'. | |
39c7a2ca VF |
2059 | .RE |
2060 | .TP | |
523bad63 TK |
2061 | .BI cgroup \fR=\fPstr |
2062 | Add job to this control group. If it doesn't exist, it will be created. The | |
2063 | system must have a mounted cgroup blkio mount point for this to work. If | |
2064 | your system doesn't have it mounted, you can do so with: | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2065 | .RS |
2066 | .RS | |
d60e92d1 | 2067 | .P |
523bad63 TK |
2068 | # mount \-t cgroup \-o blkio none /cgroup |
2069 | .RE | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2070 | .RE |
2071 | .TP | |
523bad63 TK |
2072 | .BI cgroup_weight \fR=\fPint |
2073 | Set the weight of the cgroup to this value. See the documentation that comes | |
2074 | with the kernel, allowed values are in the range of 100..1000. | |
d60e92d1 | 2075 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2076 | .BI cgroup_nodelete \fR=\fPbool |
2077 | Normally fio will delete the cgroups it has created after the job | |
2078 | completion. To override this behavior and to leave cgroups around after the | |
2079 | job completion, set `cgroup_nodelete=1'. This can be useful if one wants | |
2080 | to inspect various cgroup files after job completion. Default: false. | |
c8eeb9df | 2081 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2082 | .BI flow_id \fR=\fPint |
2083 | The ID of the flow. If not specified, it defaults to being a global | |
2084 | flow. See \fBflow\fR. | |
d60e92d1 | 2085 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2086 | .BI flow \fR=\fPint |
2087 | Weight in token\-based flow control. If this value is used, then there is | |
2088 | a 'flow counter' which is used to regulate the proportion of activity between | |
2089 | two or more jobs. Fio attempts to keep this flow counter near zero. The | |
2090 | \fBflow\fR parameter stands for how much should be added or subtracted to the | |
2091 | flow counter on each iteration of the main I/O loop. That is, if one job has | |
2092 | `flow=8' and another job has `flow=\-1', then there will be a roughly 1:8 | |
2093 | ratio in how much one runs vs the other. | |
d60e92d1 | 2094 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2095 | .BI flow_watermark \fR=\fPint |
2096 | The maximum value that the absolute value of the flow counter is allowed to | |
2097 | reach before the job must wait for a lower value of the counter. | |
6b7f6851 | 2098 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2099 | .BI flow_sleep \fR=\fPint |
2100 | The period of time, in microseconds, to wait after the flow watermark has | |
2101 | been exceeded before retrying operations. | |
25460cf6 | 2102 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2103 | .BI stonewall "\fR,\fB wait_for_previous" |
2104 | Wait for preceding jobs in the job file to exit, before starting this | |
2105 | one. Can be used to insert serialization points in the job file. A stone | |
2106 | wall also implies starting a new reporting group, see | |
2107 | \fBgroup_reporting\fR. | |
2378826d | 2108 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2109 | .BI exitall |
2110 | By default, fio will continue running all other jobs when one job finishes | |
2111 | but sometimes this is not the desired action. Setting \fBexitall\fR will | |
2112 | instead make fio terminate all other jobs when one job finishes. | |
e81ecca3 | 2113 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2114 | .BI exec_prerun \fR=\fPstr |
2115 | Before running this job, issue the command specified through | |
2116 | \fBsystem\fR\|(3). Output is redirected in a file called `jobname.prerun.txt'. | |
e9f48479 | 2117 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2118 | .BI exec_postrun \fR=\fPstr |
2119 | After the job completes, issue the command specified though | |
2120 | \fBsystem\fR\|(3). Output is redirected in a file called `jobname.postrun.txt'. | |
d60e92d1 | 2121 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2122 | .BI uid \fR=\fPint |
2123 | Instead of running as the invoking user, set the user ID to this value | |
2124 | before the thread/process does any work. | |
39c1c323 | 2125 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2126 | .BI gid \fR=\fPint |
2127 | Set group ID, see \fBuid\fR. | |
2128 | .SS "Verification" | |
d60e92d1 | 2129 | .TP |
589e88b7 | 2130 | .BI verify_only |
523bad63 | 2131 | Do not perform specified workload, only verify data still matches previous |
5e4c7118 | 2132 | invocation of this workload. This option allows one to check data multiple |
523bad63 TK |
2133 | times at a later date without overwriting it. This option makes sense only |
2134 | for workloads that write data, and does not support workloads with the | |
5e4c7118 JA |
2135 | \fBtime_based\fR option set. |
2136 | .TP | |
d60e92d1 | 2137 | .BI do_verify \fR=\fPbool |
523bad63 TK |
2138 | Run the verify phase after a write phase. Only valid if \fBverify\fR is |
2139 | set. Default: true. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2140 | .TP |
2141 | .BI verify \fR=\fPstr | |
523bad63 TK |
2142 | If writing to a file, fio can verify the file contents after each iteration |
2143 | of the job. Each verification method also implies verification of special | |
2144 | header, which is written to the beginning of each block. This header also | |
2145 | includes meta information, like offset of the block, block number, timestamp | |
2146 | when block was written, etc. \fBverify\fR can be combined with | |
2147 | \fBverify_pattern\fR option. The allowed values are: | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2148 | .RS |
2149 | .RS | |
2150 | .TP | |
523bad63 TK |
2151 | .B md5 |
2152 | Use an md5 sum of the data area and store it in the header of | |
2153 | each block. | |
2154 | .TP | |
2155 | .B crc64 | |
2156 | Use an experimental crc64 sum of the data area and store it in the | |
2157 | header of each block. | |
2158 | .TP | |
2159 | .B crc32c | |
2160 | Use a crc32c sum of the data area and store it in the header of | |
2161 | each block. This will automatically use hardware acceleration | |
2162 | (e.g. SSE4.2 on an x86 or CRC crypto extensions on ARM64) but will | |
2163 | fall back to software crc32c if none is found. Generally the | |
2164 | fatest checksum fio supports when hardware accelerated. | |
2165 | .TP | |
2166 | .B crc32c\-intel | |
2167 | Synonym for crc32c. | |
2168 | .TP | |
2169 | .B crc32 | |
2170 | Use a crc32 sum of the data area and store it in the header of each | |
2171 | block. | |
2172 | .TP | |
2173 | .B crc16 | |
2174 | Use a crc16 sum of the data area and store it in the header of each | |
2175 | block. | |
2176 | .TP | |
2177 | .B crc7 | |
2178 | Use a crc7 sum of the data area and store it in the header of each | |
2179 | block. | |
2180 | .TP | |
2181 | .B xxhash | |
2182 | Use xxhash as the checksum function. Generally the fastest software | |
2183 | checksum that fio supports. | |
2184 | .TP | |
2185 | .B sha512 | |
2186 | Use sha512 as the checksum function. | |
2187 | .TP | |
2188 | .B sha256 | |
2189 | Use sha256 as the checksum function. | |
2190 | .TP | |
2191 | .B sha1 | |
2192 | Use optimized sha1 as the checksum function. | |
2193 | .TP | |
2194 | .B sha3\-224 | |
2195 | Use optimized sha3\-224 as the checksum function. | |
2196 | .TP | |
2197 | .B sha3\-256 | |
2198 | Use optimized sha3\-256 as the checksum function. | |
2199 | .TP | |
2200 | .B sha3\-384 | |
2201 | Use optimized sha3\-384 as the checksum function. | |
2202 | .TP | |
2203 | .B sha3\-512 | |
2204 | Use optimized sha3\-512 as the checksum function. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2205 | .TP |
2206 | .B meta | |
523bad63 TK |
2207 | This option is deprecated, since now meta information is included in |
2208 | generic verification header and meta verification happens by | |
2209 | default. For detailed information see the description of the | |
2210 | \fBverify\fR setting. This option is kept because of | |
2211 | compatibility's sake with old configurations. Do not use it. | |
d60e92d1 | 2212 | .TP |
59245381 | 2213 | .B pattern |
523bad63 TK |
2214 | Verify a strict pattern. Normally fio includes a header with some |
2215 | basic information and checksumming, but if this option is set, only | |
2216 | the specific pattern set with \fBverify_pattern\fR is verified. | |
59245381 | 2217 | .TP |
d60e92d1 | 2218 | .B null |
523bad63 TK |
2219 | Only pretend to verify. Useful for testing internals with |
2220 | `ioengine=null', not for much else. | |
d60e92d1 | 2221 | .RE |
523bad63 TK |
2222 | .P |
2223 | This option can be used for repeated burn\-in tests of a system to make sure | |
2224 | that the written data is also correctly read back. If the data direction | |
2225 | given is a read or random read, fio will assume that it should verify a | |
2226 | previously written file. If the data direction includes any form of write, | |
2227 | the verify will be of the newly written data. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2228 | .RE |
2229 | .TP | |
5c9323fb | 2230 | .BI verifysort \fR=\fPbool |
523bad63 TK |
2231 | If true, fio will sort written verify blocks when it deems it faster to read |
2232 | them back in a sorted manner. This is often the case when overwriting an | |
2233 | existing file, since the blocks are already laid out in the file system. You | |
2234 | can ignore this option unless doing huge amounts of really fast I/O where | |
2235 | the red\-black tree sorting CPU time becomes significant. Default: true. | |
d60e92d1 | 2236 | .TP |
fa769d44 | 2237 | .BI verifysort_nr \fR=\fPint |
523bad63 | 2238 | Pre\-load and sort verify blocks for a read workload. |
fa769d44 | 2239 | .TP |
f7fa2653 | 2240 | .BI verify_offset \fR=\fPint |
d60e92d1 | 2241 | Swap the verification header with data somewhere else in the block before |
523bad63 | 2242 | writing. It is swapped back before verifying. |
d60e92d1 | 2243 | .TP |
f7fa2653 | 2244 | .BI verify_interval \fR=\fPint |
523bad63 TK |
2245 | Write the verification header at a finer granularity than the |
2246 | \fBblocksize\fR. It will be written for chunks the size of | |
2247 | \fBverify_interval\fR. \fBblocksize\fR should divide this evenly. | |
d60e92d1 | 2248 | .TP |
996093bb | 2249 | .BI verify_pattern \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
2250 | If set, fio will fill the I/O buffers with this pattern. Fio defaults to |
2251 | filling with totally random bytes, but sometimes it's interesting to fill | |
2252 | with a known pattern for I/O verification purposes. Depending on the width | |
2253 | of the pattern, fio will fill 1/2/3/4 bytes of the buffer at the time (it can | |
2254 | be either a decimal or a hex number). The \fBverify_pattern\fR if larger than | |
2255 | a 32\-bit quantity has to be a hex number that starts with either "0x" or | |
2256 | "0X". Use with \fBverify\fR. Also, \fBverify_pattern\fR supports %o | |
2257 | format, which means that for each block offset will be written and then | |
2258 | verified back, e.g.: | |
2fa5a241 RP |
2259 | .RS |
2260 | .RS | |
523bad63 TK |
2261 | .P |
2262 | verify_pattern=%o | |
2fa5a241 | 2263 | .RE |
523bad63 | 2264 | .P |
2fa5a241 | 2265 | Or use combination of everything: |
2fa5a241 | 2266 | .RS |
523bad63 TK |
2267 | .P |
2268 | verify_pattern=0xff%o"abcd"\-12 | |
2fa5a241 RP |
2269 | .RE |
2270 | .RE | |
996093bb | 2271 | .TP |
d60e92d1 | 2272 | .BI verify_fatal \fR=\fPbool |
523bad63 TK |
2273 | Normally fio will keep checking the entire contents before quitting on a |
2274 | block verification failure. If this option is set, fio will exit the job on | |
2275 | the first observed failure. Default: false. | |
d60e92d1 | 2276 | .TP |
b463e936 | 2277 | .BI verify_dump \fR=\fPbool |
523bad63 TK |
2278 | If set, dump the contents of both the original data block and the data block |
2279 | we read off disk to files. This allows later analysis to inspect just what | |
2280 | kind of data corruption occurred. Off by default. | |
b463e936 | 2281 | .TP |
e8462bd8 | 2282 | .BI verify_async \fR=\fPint |
523bad63 TK |
2283 | Fio will normally verify I/O inline from the submitting thread. This option |
2284 | takes an integer describing how many async offload threads to create for I/O | |
2285 | verification instead, causing fio to offload the duty of verifying I/O | |
2286 | contents to one or more separate threads. If using this offload option, even | |
2287 | sync I/O engines can benefit from using an \fBiodepth\fR setting higher | |
2288 | than 1, as it allows them to have I/O in flight while verifies are running. | |
2289 | Defaults to 0 async threads, i.e. verification is not asynchronous. | |
e8462bd8 JA |
2290 | .TP |
2291 | .BI verify_async_cpus \fR=\fPstr | |
523bad63 TK |
2292 | Tell fio to set the given CPU affinity on the async I/O verification |
2293 | threads. See \fBcpus_allowed\fR for the format used. | |
e8462bd8 | 2294 | .TP |
6f87418f JA |
2295 | .BI verify_backlog \fR=\fPint |
2296 | Fio will normally verify the written contents of a job that utilizes verify | |
2297 | once that job has completed. In other words, everything is written then | |
2298 | everything is read back and verified. You may want to verify continually | |
523bad63 TK |
2299 | instead for a variety of reasons. Fio stores the meta data associated with |
2300 | an I/O block in memory, so for large verify workloads, quite a bit of memory | |
2301 | would be used up holding this meta data. If this option is enabled, fio will | |
2302 | write only N blocks before verifying these blocks. | |
6f87418f JA |
2303 | .TP |
2304 | .BI verify_backlog_batch \fR=\fPint | |
523bad63 TK |
2305 | Control how many blocks fio will verify if \fBverify_backlog\fR is |
2306 | set. If not set, will default to the value of \fBverify_backlog\fR | |
2307 | (meaning the entire queue is read back and verified). If | |
2308 | \fBverify_backlog_batch\fR is less than \fBverify_backlog\fR then not all | |
2309 | blocks will be verified, if \fBverify_backlog_batch\fR is larger than | |
2310 | \fBverify_backlog\fR, some blocks will be verified more than once. | |
2311 | .TP | |
2312 | .BI verify_state_save \fR=\fPbool | |
2313 | When a job exits during the write phase of a verify workload, save its | |
2314 | current state. This allows fio to replay up until that point, if the verify | |
2315 | state is loaded for the verify read phase. The format of the filename is, | |
2316 | roughly: | |
2317 | .RS | |
2318 | .RS | |
2319 | .P | |
2320 | <type>\-<jobname>\-<jobindex>\-verify.state. | |
2321 | .RE | |
2322 | .P | |
2323 | <type> is "local" for a local run, "sock" for a client/server socket | |
2324 | connection, and "ip" (192.168.0.1, for instance) for a networked | |
2325 | client/server connection. Defaults to true. | |
2326 | .RE | |
2327 | .TP | |
2328 | .BI verify_state_load \fR=\fPbool | |
2329 | If a verify termination trigger was used, fio stores the current write state | |
2330 | of each thread. This can be used at verification time so that fio knows how | |
2331 | far it should verify. Without this information, fio will run a full | |
2332 | verification pass, according to the settings in the job file used. Default | |
2333 | false. | |
6f87418f | 2334 | .TP |
fa769d44 SW |
2335 | .BI trim_percentage \fR=\fPint |
2336 | Number of verify blocks to discard/trim. | |
2337 | .TP | |
2338 | .BI trim_verify_zero \fR=\fPbool | |
523bad63 | 2339 | Verify that trim/discarded blocks are returned as zeros. |
fa769d44 SW |
2340 | .TP |
2341 | .BI trim_backlog \fR=\fPint | |
523bad63 | 2342 | Verify that trim/discarded blocks are returned as zeros. |
fa769d44 SW |
2343 | .TP |
2344 | .BI trim_backlog_batch \fR=\fPint | |
523bad63 | 2345 | Trim this number of I/O blocks. |
fa769d44 SW |
2346 | .TP |
2347 | .BI experimental_verify \fR=\fPbool | |
2348 | Enable experimental verification. | |
523bad63 | 2349 | .SS "Steady state" |
fa769d44 | 2350 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2351 | .BI steadystate \fR=\fPstr:float "\fR,\fP ss" \fR=\fPstr:float |
2352 | Define the criterion and limit for assessing steady state performance. The | |
2353 | first parameter designates the criterion whereas the second parameter sets | |
2354 | the threshold. When the criterion falls below the threshold for the | |
2355 | specified duration, the job will stop. For example, `iops_slope:0.1%' will | |
2356 | direct fio to terminate the job when the least squares regression slope | |
2357 | falls below 0.1% of the mean IOPS. If \fBgroup_reporting\fR is enabled | |
2358 | this will apply to all jobs in the group. Below is the list of available | |
2359 | steady state assessment criteria. All assessments are carried out using only | |
2360 | data from the rolling collection window. Threshold limits can be expressed | |
2361 | as a fixed value or as a percentage of the mean in the collection window. | |
2362 | .RS | |
2363 | .RS | |
d60e92d1 | 2364 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2365 | .B iops |
2366 | Collect IOPS data. Stop the job if all individual IOPS measurements | |
2367 | are within the specified limit of the mean IOPS (e.g., `iops:2' | |
2368 | means that all individual IOPS values must be within 2 of the mean, | |
2369 | whereas `iops:0.2%' means that all individual IOPS values must be | |
2370 | within 0.2% of the mean IOPS to terminate the job). | |
d60e92d1 | 2371 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2372 | .B iops_slope |
2373 | Collect IOPS data and calculate the least squares regression | |
2374 | slope. Stop the job if the slope falls below the specified limit. | |
d60e92d1 | 2375 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2376 | .B bw |
2377 | Collect bandwidth data. Stop the job if all individual bandwidth | |
2378 | measurements are within the specified limit of the mean bandwidth. | |
64bbb865 | 2379 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2380 | .B bw_slope |
2381 | Collect bandwidth data and calculate the least squares regression | |
2382 | slope. Stop the job if the slope falls below the specified limit. | |
2383 | .RE | |
2384 | .RE | |
d1c46c04 | 2385 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2386 | .BI steadystate_duration \fR=\fPtime "\fR,\fP ss_dur" \fR=\fPtime |
2387 | A rolling window of this duration will be used to judge whether steady state | |
2388 | has been reached. Data will be collected once per second. The default is 0 | |
2389 | which disables steady state detection. When the unit is omitted, the | |
2390 | value is interpreted in seconds. | |
0c63576e | 2391 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2392 | .BI steadystate_ramp_time \fR=\fPtime "\fR,\fP ss_ramp" \fR=\fPtime |
2393 | Allow the job to run for the specified duration before beginning data | |
2394 | collection for checking the steady state job termination criterion. The | |
2395 | default is 0. When the unit is omitted, the value is interpreted in seconds. | |
2396 | .SS "Measurements and reporting" | |
0c63576e | 2397 | .TP |
3a5db920 JA |
2398 | .BI per_job_logs \fR=\fPbool |
2399 | If set, this generates bw/clat/iops log with per file private filenames. If | |
523bad63 TK |
2400 | not set, jobs with identical names will share the log filename. Default: |
2401 | true. | |
2402 | .TP | |
2403 | .BI group_reporting | |
2404 | It may sometimes be interesting to display statistics for groups of jobs as | |
2405 | a whole instead of for each individual job. This is especially true if | |
2406 | \fBnumjobs\fR is used; looking at individual thread/process output | |
2407 | quickly becomes unwieldy. To see the final report per\-group instead of | |
2408 | per\-job, use \fBgroup_reporting\fR. Jobs in a file will be part of the | |
2409 | same reporting group, unless if separated by a \fBstonewall\fR, or by | |
2410 | using \fBnew_group\fR. | |
2411 | .TP | |
2412 | .BI new_group | |
2413 | Start a new reporting group. See: \fBgroup_reporting\fR. If not given, | |
2414 | all jobs in a file will be part of the same reporting group, unless | |
2415 | separated by a \fBstonewall\fR. | |
2416 | .TP | |
2417 | .BI stats \fR=\fPbool | |
2418 | By default, fio collects and shows final output results for all jobs | |
2419 | that run. If this option is set to 0, then fio will ignore it in | |
2420 | the final stat output. | |
3a5db920 | 2421 | .TP |
836bad52 | 2422 | .BI write_bw_log \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 | 2423 | If given, write a bandwidth log for this job. Can be used to store data of |
074f0817 | 2424 | the bandwidth of the jobs in their lifetime. |
523bad63 | 2425 | .RS |
074f0817 SW |
2426 | .P |
2427 | If no str argument is given, the default filename of | |
2428 | `jobname_type.x.log' is used. Even when the argument is given, fio | |
2429 | will still append the type of log. So if one specifies: | |
523bad63 TK |
2430 | .RS |
2431 | .P | |
074f0817 | 2432 | write_bw_log=foo |
523bad63 TK |
2433 | .RE |
2434 | .P | |
074f0817 SW |
2435 | The actual log name will be `foo_bw.x.log' where `x' is the index |
2436 | of the job (1..N, where N is the number of jobs). If | |
2437 | \fBper_job_logs\fR is false, then the filename will not include the | |
2438 | `.x` job index. | |
2439 | .P | |
2440 | The included \fBfio_generate_plots\fR script uses gnuplot to turn these | |
2441 | text files into nice graphs. See the \fBLOG FILE FORMATS\fR section for how data is | |
2442 | structured within the file. | |
523bad63 | 2443 | .RE |
901bb994 | 2444 | .TP |
074f0817 SW |
2445 | .BI write_lat_log \fR=\fPstr |
2446 | Same as \fBwrite_bw_log\fR, except this option creates I/O | |
2447 | submission (e.g., `name_slat.x.log'), completion (e.g., | |
2448 | `name_clat.x.log'), and total (e.g., `name_lat.x.log') latency | |
2449 | files instead. See \fBwrite_bw_log\fR for details about the | |
2450 | filename format and the \fBLOG FILE FORMATS\fR section for how data is structured | |
2451 | within the files. | |
2452 | .TP | |
1e613c9c | 2453 | .BI write_hist_log \fR=\fPstr |
074f0817 SW |
2454 | Same as \fBwrite_bw_log\fR but writes an I/O completion latency |
2455 | histogram file (e.g., `name_hist.x.log') instead. Note that this | |
2456 | file will be empty unless \fBlog_hist_msec\fR has also been set. | |
2457 | See \fBwrite_bw_log\fR for details about the filename format and | |
2458 | the \fBLOG FILE FORMATS\fR section for how data is structured | |
2459 | within the file. | |
1e613c9c | 2460 | .TP |
c8eeb9df | 2461 | .BI write_iops_log \fR=\fPstr |
074f0817 SW |
2462 | Same as \fBwrite_bw_log\fR, but writes an IOPS file (e.g. |
2463 | `name_iops.x.log') instead. See \fBwrite_bw_log\fR for | |
2464 | details about the filename format and the \fBLOG FILE FORMATS\fR section for how data | |
2465 | is structured within the file. | |
c8eeb9df | 2466 | .TP |
b8bc8cba JA |
2467 | .BI log_avg_msec \fR=\fPint |
2468 | By default, fio will log an entry in the iops, latency, or bw log for every | |
523bad63 | 2469 | I/O that completes. When writing to the disk log, that can quickly grow to a |
b8bc8cba | 2470 | very large size. Setting this option makes fio average the each log entry |
e6989e10 | 2471 | over the specified period of time, reducing the resolution of the log. See |
523bad63 TK |
2472 | \fBlog_max_value\fR as well. Defaults to 0, logging all entries. |
2473 | Also see \fBLOG FILE FORMATS\fR section. | |
b8bc8cba | 2474 | .TP |
1e613c9c | 2475 | .BI log_hist_msec \fR=\fPint |
523bad63 TK |
2476 | Same as \fBlog_avg_msec\fR, but logs entries for completion latency |
2477 | histograms. Computing latency percentiles from averages of intervals using | |
2478 | \fBlog_avg_msec\fR is inaccurate. Setting this option makes fio log | |
2479 | histogram entries over the specified period of time, reducing log sizes for | |
2480 | high IOPS devices while retaining percentile accuracy. See | |
074f0817 SW |
2481 | \fBlog_hist_coarseness\fR and \fBwrite_hist_log\fR as well. |
2482 | Defaults to 0, meaning histogram logging is disabled. | |
1e613c9c KC |
2483 | .TP |
2484 | .BI log_hist_coarseness \fR=\fPint | |
523bad63 TK |
2485 | Integer ranging from 0 to 6, defining the coarseness of the resolution of |
2486 | the histogram logs enabled with \fBlog_hist_msec\fR. For each increment | |
2487 | in coarseness, fio outputs half as many bins. Defaults to 0, for which | |
2488 | histogram logs contain 1216 latency bins. See \fBLOG FILE FORMATS\fR section. | |
2489 | .TP | |
2490 | .BI log_max_value \fR=\fPbool | |
2491 | If \fBlog_avg_msec\fR is set, fio logs the average over that window. If | |
2492 | you instead want to log the maximum value, set this option to 1. Defaults to | |
2493 | 0, meaning that averaged values are logged. | |
1e613c9c | 2494 | .TP |
ae588852 | 2495 | .BI log_offset \fR=\fPbool |
523bad63 TK |
2496 | If this is set, the iolog options will include the byte offset for the I/O |
2497 | entry as well as the other data values. Defaults to 0 meaning that | |
2498 | offsets are not present in logs. Also see \fBLOG FILE FORMATS\fR section. | |
ae588852 | 2499 | .TP |
aee2ab67 | 2500 | .BI log_compression \fR=\fPint |
523bad63 TK |
2501 | If this is set, fio will compress the I/O logs as it goes, to keep the |
2502 | memory footprint lower. When a log reaches the specified size, that chunk is | |
2503 | removed and compressed in the background. Given that I/O logs are fairly | |
2504 | highly compressible, this yields a nice memory savings for longer runs. The | |
2505 | downside is that the compression will consume some background CPU cycles, so | |
2506 | it may impact the run. This, however, is also true if the logging ends up | |
2507 | consuming most of the system memory. So pick your poison. The I/O logs are | |
2508 | saved normally at the end of a run, by decompressing the chunks and storing | |
2509 | them in the specified log file. This feature depends on the availability of | |
2510 | zlib. | |
aee2ab67 | 2511 | .TP |
c08f9fe2 | 2512 | .BI log_compression_cpus \fR=\fPstr |
523bad63 TK |
2513 | Define the set of CPUs that are allowed to handle online log compression for |
2514 | the I/O jobs. This can provide better isolation between performance | |
c08f9fe2 JA |
2515 | sensitive jobs, and background compression work. |
2516 | .TP | |
b26317c9 | 2517 | .BI log_store_compressed \fR=\fPbool |
c08f9fe2 | 2518 | If set, fio will store the log files in a compressed format. They can be |
523bad63 TK |
2519 | decompressed with fio, using the \fB\-\-inflate\-log\fR command line |
2520 | parameter. The files will be stored with a `.fz' suffix. | |
b26317c9 | 2521 | .TP |
3aea75b1 KC |
2522 | .BI log_unix_epoch \fR=\fPbool |
2523 | If set, fio will log Unix timestamps to the log files produced by enabling | |
523bad63 | 2524 | write_type_log for each log type, instead of the default zero\-based |
3aea75b1 KC |
2525 | timestamps. |
2526 | .TP | |
66347cfa | 2527 | .BI block_error_percentiles \fR=\fPbool |
523bad63 TK |
2528 | If set, record errors in trim block\-sized units from writes and trims and |
2529 | output a histogram of how many trims it took to get to errors, and what kind | |
2530 | of error was encountered. | |
d60e92d1 | 2531 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2532 | .BI bwavgtime \fR=\fPint |
2533 | Average the calculated bandwidth over the given time. Value is specified in | |
2534 | milliseconds. If the job also does bandwidth logging through | |
2535 | \fBwrite_bw_log\fR, then the minimum of this option and | |
2536 | \fBlog_avg_msec\fR will be used. Default: 500ms. | |
d60e92d1 | 2537 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2538 | .BI iopsavgtime \fR=\fPint |
2539 | Average the calculated IOPS over the given time. Value is specified in | |
2540 | milliseconds. If the job also does IOPS logging through | |
2541 | \fBwrite_iops_log\fR, then the minimum of this option and | |
2542 | \fBlog_avg_msec\fR will be used. Default: 500ms. | |
d60e92d1 | 2543 | .TP |
d60e92d1 | 2544 | .BI disk_util \fR=\fPbool |
523bad63 TK |
2545 | Generate disk utilization statistics, if the platform supports it. |
2546 | Default: true. | |
fa769d44 | 2547 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2548 | .BI disable_lat \fR=\fPbool |
2549 | Disable measurements of total latency numbers. Useful only for cutting back | |
2550 | the number of calls to \fBgettimeofday\fR\|(2), as that does impact | |
2551 | performance at really high IOPS rates. Note that to really get rid of a | |
2552 | large amount of these calls, this option must be used with | |
2553 | \fBdisable_slat\fR and \fBdisable_bw_measurement\fR as well. | |
9e684a49 | 2554 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2555 | .BI disable_clat \fR=\fPbool |
2556 | Disable measurements of completion latency numbers. See | |
2557 | \fBdisable_lat\fR. | |
9e684a49 | 2558 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2559 | .BI disable_slat \fR=\fPbool |
2560 | Disable measurements of submission latency numbers. See | |
2561 | \fBdisable_lat\fR. | |
9e684a49 | 2562 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2563 | .BI disable_bw_measurement \fR=\fPbool "\fR,\fP disable_bw" \fR=\fPbool |
2564 | Disable measurements of throughput/bandwidth numbers. See | |
2565 | \fBdisable_lat\fR. | |
9e684a49 | 2566 | .TP |
83349190 | 2567 | .BI clat_percentiles \fR=\fPbool |
b599759b JA |
2568 | Enable the reporting of percentiles of completion latencies. This option is |
2569 | mutually exclusive with \fBlat_percentiles\fR. | |
2570 | .TP | |
2571 | .BI lat_percentiles \fR=\fPbool | |
b71968b1 | 2572 | Enable the reporting of percentiles of I/O latencies. This is similar to |
b599759b JA |
2573 | \fBclat_percentiles\fR, except that this includes the submission latency. |
2574 | This option is mutually exclusive with \fBclat_percentiles\fR. | |
83349190 YH |
2575 | .TP |
2576 | .BI percentile_list \fR=\fPfloat_list | |
66347cfa | 2577 | Overwrite the default list of percentiles for completion latencies and the |
523bad63 TK |
2578 | block error histogram. Each number is a floating number in the range |
2579 | (0,100], and the maximum length of the list is 20. Use ':' to separate the | |
2580 | numbers, and list the numbers in ascending order. For example, | |
2581 | `\-\-percentile_list=99.5:99.9' will cause fio to report the values of | |
2582 | completion latency below which 99.5% and 99.9% of the observed latencies | |
2583 | fell, respectively. | |
2584 | .SS "Error handling" | |
e4585935 | 2585 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2586 | .BI exitall_on_error |
2587 | When one job finishes in error, terminate the rest. The default is to wait | |
2588 | for each job to finish. | |
e4585935 | 2589 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2590 | .BI continue_on_error \fR=\fPstr |
2591 | Normally fio will exit the job on the first observed failure. If this option | |
2592 | is set, fio will continue the job when there is a 'non\-fatal error' (EIO or | |
2593 | EILSEQ) until the runtime is exceeded or the I/O size specified is | |
2594 | completed. If this option is used, there are two more stats that are | |
2595 | appended, the total error count and the first error. The error field given | |
2596 | in the stats is the first error that was hit during the run. | |
2597 | The allowed values are: | |
2598 | .RS | |
2599 | .RS | |
046395d7 | 2600 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2601 | .B none |
2602 | Exit on any I/O or verify errors. | |
de890a1e | 2603 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2604 | .B read |
2605 | Continue on read errors, exit on all others. | |
2cafffbe | 2606 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2607 | .B write |
2608 | Continue on write errors, exit on all others. | |
a0679ce5 | 2609 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2610 | .B io |
2611 | Continue on any I/O error, exit on all others. | |
de890a1e | 2612 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2613 | .B verify |
2614 | Continue on verify errors, exit on all others. | |
de890a1e | 2615 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2616 | .B all |
2617 | Continue on all errors. | |
b93b6a2e | 2618 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2619 | .B 0 |
2620 | Backward\-compatible alias for 'none'. | |
d3a623de | 2621 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2622 | .B 1 |
2623 | Backward\-compatible alias for 'all'. | |
2624 | .RE | |
2625 | .RE | |
1d360ffb | 2626 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2627 | .BI ignore_error \fR=\fPstr |
2628 | Sometimes you want to ignore some errors during test in that case you can | |
2629 | specify error list for each error type, instead of only being able to | |
2630 | ignore the default 'non\-fatal error' using \fBcontinue_on_error\fR. | |
2631 | `ignore_error=READ_ERR_LIST,WRITE_ERR_LIST,VERIFY_ERR_LIST' errors for | |
2632 | given error type is separated with ':'. Error may be symbol ('ENOSPC', 'ENOMEM') | |
2633 | or integer. Example: | |
de890a1e SL |
2634 | .RS |
2635 | .RS | |
523bad63 TK |
2636 | .P |
2637 | ignore_error=EAGAIN,ENOSPC:122 | |
2638 | .RE | |
2639 | .P | |
2640 | This option will ignore EAGAIN from READ, and ENOSPC and 122(EDQUOT) from | |
2641 | WRITE. This option works by overriding \fBcontinue_on_error\fR with | |
2642 | the list of errors for each error type if any. | |
2643 | .RE | |
de890a1e | 2644 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2645 | .BI error_dump \fR=\fPbool |
2646 | If set dump every error even if it is non fatal, true by default. If | |
2647 | disabled only fatal error will be dumped. | |
2648 | .SS "Running predefined workloads" | |
2649 | Fio includes predefined profiles that mimic the I/O workloads generated by | |
2650 | other tools. | |
49ccb8c1 | 2651 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2652 | .BI profile \fR=\fPstr |
2653 | The predefined workload to run. Current profiles are: | |
2654 | .RS | |
2655 | .RS | |
de890a1e | 2656 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2657 | .B tiobench |
2658 | Threaded I/O bench (tiotest/tiobench) like workload. | |
49ccb8c1 | 2659 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2660 | .B act |
2661 | Aerospike Certification Tool (ACT) like workload. | |
2662 | .RE | |
de890a1e SL |
2663 | .RE |
2664 | .P | |
523bad63 TK |
2665 | To view a profile's additional options use \fB\-\-cmdhelp\fR after specifying |
2666 | the profile. For example: | |
2667 | .RS | |
2668 | .TP | |
2669 | $ fio \-\-profile=act \-\-cmdhelp | |
de890a1e | 2670 | .RE |
523bad63 | 2671 | .SS "Act profile options" |
de890a1e | 2672 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2673 | .BI device\-names \fR=\fPstr |
2674 | Devices to use. | |
d54fce84 | 2675 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2676 | .BI load \fR=\fPint |
2677 | ACT load multiplier. Default: 1. | |
7aeb1e94 | 2678 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2679 | .BI test\-duration\fR=\fPtime |
2680 | How long the entire test takes to run. When the unit is omitted, the value | |
2681 | is given in seconds. Default: 24h. | |
1008602c | 2682 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2683 | .BI threads\-per\-queue\fR=\fPint |
2684 | Number of read I/O threads per device. Default: 8. | |
e5f34d95 | 2685 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2686 | .BI read\-req\-num\-512\-blocks\fR=\fPint |
2687 | Number of 512B blocks to read at the time. Default: 3. | |
d54fce84 | 2688 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2689 | .BI large\-block\-op\-kbytes\fR=\fPint |
2690 | Size of large block ops in KiB (writes). Default: 131072. | |
d54fce84 | 2691 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2692 | .BI prep |
2693 | Set to run ACT prep phase. | |
2694 | .SS "Tiobench profile options" | |
6d500c2e | 2695 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2696 | .BI size\fR=\fPstr |
2697 | Size in MiB. | |
0d978694 | 2698 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2699 | .BI block\fR=\fPint |
2700 | Block size in bytes. Default: 4096. | |
0d978694 | 2701 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2702 | .BI numruns\fR=\fPint |
2703 | Number of runs. | |
0d978694 | 2704 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2705 | .BI dir\fR=\fPstr |
2706 | Test directory. | |
65fa28ca | 2707 | .TP |
523bad63 TK |
2708 | .BI threads\fR=\fPint |
2709 | Number of threads. | |
d60e92d1 | 2710 | .SH OUTPUT |
40943b9a TK |
2711 | Fio spits out a lot of output. While running, fio will display the status of the |
2712 | jobs created. An example of that would be: | |
d60e92d1 | 2713 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2714 | .nf |
2715 | Jobs: 1 (f=1): [_(1),M(1)][24.8%][r=20.5MiB/s,w=23.5MiB/s][r=82,w=94 IOPS][eta 01m:31s] | |
2716 | .fi | |
d1429b5c | 2717 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2718 | The characters inside the first set of square brackets denote the current status of |
2719 | each thread. The first character is the first job defined in the job file, and so | |
2720 | forth. The possible values (in typical life cycle order) are: | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2721 | .RS |
2722 | .TP | |
40943b9a | 2723 | .PD 0 |
d60e92d1 | 2724 | .B P |
40943b9a | 2725 | Thread setup, but not started. |
d60e92d1 AC |
2726 | .TP |
2727 | .B C | |
2728 | Thread created. | |
2729 | .TP | |
2730 | .B I | |
40943b9a TK |
2731 | Thread initialized, waiting or generating necessary data. |
2732 | .TP | |
2733 | .B P | |
2734 | Thread running pre\-reading file(s). | |
2735 | .TP | |
2736 | .B / | |
2737 | Thread is in ramp period. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2738 | .TP |
2739 | .B R | |
2740 | Running, doing sequential reads. | |
2741 | .TP | |
2742 | .B r | |
2743 | Running, doing random reads. | |
2744 | .TP | |
2745 | .B W | |
2746 | Running, doing sequential writes. | |
2747 | .TP | |
2748 | .B w | |
2749 | Running, doing random writes. | |
2750 | .TP | |
2751 | .B M | |
2752 | Running, doing mixed sequential reads/writes. | |
2753 | .TP | |
2754 | .B m | |
2755 | Running, doing mixed random reads/writes. | |
2756 | .TP | |
40943b9a TK |
2757 | .B D |
2758 | Running, doing sequential trims. | |
2759 | .TP | |
2760 | .B d | |
2761 | Running, doing random trims. | |
2762 | .TP | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2763 | .B F |
2764 | Running, currently waiting for \fBfsync\fR\|(2). | |
2765 | .TP | |
2766 | .B V | |
40943b9a TK |
2767 | Running, doing verification of written data. |
2768 | .TP | |
2769 | .B f | |
2770 | Thread finishing. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2771 | .TP |
2772 | .B E | |
40943b9a | 2773 | Thread exited, not reaped by main thread yet. |
d60e92d1 AC |
2774 | .TP |
2775 | .B \- | |
40943b9a TK |
2776 | Thread reaped. |
2777 | .TP | |
2778 | .B X | |
2779 | Thread reaped, exited with an error. | |
2780 | .TP | |
2781 | .B K | |
2782 | Thread reaped, exited due to signal. | |
d1429b5c | 2783 | .PD |
40943b9a TK |
2784 | .RE |
2785 | .P | |
2786 | Fio will condense the thread string as not to take up more space on the command | |
2787 | line than needed. For instance, if you have 10 readers and 10 writers running, | |
2788 | the output would look like this: | |
2789 | .P | |
2790 | .nf | |
2791 | Jobs: 20 (f=20): [R(10),W(10)][4.0%][r=20.5MiB/s,w=23.5MiB/s][r=82,w=94 IOPS][eta 57m:36s] | |
2792 | .fi | |
d60e92d1 | 2793 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2794 | Note that the status string is displayed in order, so it's possible to tell which of |
2795 | the jobs are currently doing what. In the example above this means that jobs 1\-\-10 | |
2796 | are readers and 11\-\-20 are writers. | |
d60e92d1 | 2797 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2798 | The other values are fairly self explanatory \-\- number of threads currently |
2799 | running and doing I/O, the number of currently open files (f=), the estimated | |
2800 | completion percentage, the rate of I/O since last check (read speed listed first, | |
2801 | then write speed and optionally trim speed) in terms of bandwidth and IOPS, | |
2802 | and time to completion for the current running group. It's impossible to estimate | |
2803 | runtime of the following groups (if any). | |
d60e92d1 | 2804 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2805 | When fio is done (or interrupted by Ctrl\-C), it will show the data for |
2806 | each thread, group of threads, and disks in that order. For each overall thread (or | |
2807 | group) the output looks like: | |
2808 | .P | |
2809 | .nf | |
2810 | Client1: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=16109: Sat Jun 24 12:07:54 2017 | |
2811 | write: IOPS=88, BW=623KiB/s (638kB/s)(30.4MiB/50032msec) | |
2812 | slat (nsec): min=500, max=145500, avg=8318.00, stdev=4781.50 | |
2813 | clat (usec): min=170, max=78367, avg=4019.02, stdev=8293.31 | |
2814 | lat (usec): min=174, max=78375, avg=4027.34, stdev=8291.79 | |
2815 | clat percentiles (usec): | |
2816 | | 1.00th=[ 302], 5.00th=[ 326], 10.00th=[ 343], 20.00th=[ 363], | |
2817 | | 30.00th=[ 392], 40.00th=[ 404], 50.00th=[ 416], 60.00th=[ 445], | |
2818 | | 70.00th=[ 816], 80.00th=[ 6718], 90.00th=[12911], 95.00th=[21627], | |
2819 | | 99.00th=[43779], 99.50th=[51643], 99.90th=[68682], 99.95th=[72877], | |
2820 | | 99.99th=[78119] | |
2821 | bw ( KiB/s): min= 532, max= 686, per=0.10%, avg=622.87, stdev=24.82, samples= 100 | |
2822 | iops : min= 76, max= 98, avg=88.98, stdev= 3.54, samples= 100 | |
d3b9694d VF |
2823 | lat (usec) : 250=0.04%, 500=64.11%, 750=4.81%, 1000=2.79% |
2824 | lat (msec) : 2=4.16%, 4=1.84%, 10=4.90%, 20=11.33%, 50=5.37% | |
2825 | lat (msec) : 100=0.65% | |
40943b9a TK |
2826 | cpu : usr=0.27%, sys=0.18%, ctx=12072, majf=0, minf=21 |
2827 | IO depths : 1=85.0%, 2=13.1%, 4=1.8%, 8=0.1%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% | |
2828 | submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% | |
2829 | complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% | |
2830 | issued rwt: total=0,4450,0, short=0,0,0, dropped=0,0,0 | |
2831 | latency : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=8 | |
2832 | .fi | |
2833 | .P | |
2834 | The job name (or first job's name when using \fBgroup_reporting\fR) is printed, | |
2835 | along with the group id, count of jobs being aggregated, last error id seen (which | |
2836 | is 0 when there are no errors), pid/tid of that thread and the time the job/group | |
2837 | completed. Below are the I/O statistics for each data direction performed (showing | |
2838 | writes in the example above). In the order listed, they denote: | |
d60e92d1 | 2839 | .RS |
d60e92d1 | 2840 | .TP |
40943b9a TK |
2841 | .B read/write/trim |
2842 | The string before the colon shows the I/O direction the statistics | |
2843 | are for. \fIIOPS\fR is the average I/Os performed per second. \fIBW\fR | |
2844 | is the average bandwidth rate shown as: value in power of 2 format | |
2845 | (value in power of 10 format). The last two values show: (total | |
2846 | I/O performed in power of 2 format / \fIruntime\fR of that thread). | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2847 | .TP |
2848 | .B slat | |
40943b9a TK |
2849 | Submission latency (\fImin\fR being the minimum, \fImax\fR being the |
2850 | maximum, \fIavg\fR being the average, \fIstdev\fR being the standard | |
2851 | deviation). This is the time it took to submit the I/O. For | |
2852 | sync I/O this row is not displayed as the slat is really the | |
2853 | completion latency (since queue/complete is one operation there). | |
2854 | This value can be in nanoseconds, microseconds or milliseconds \-\-\- | |
2855 | fio will choose the most appropriate base and print that (in the | |
2856 | example above nanoseconds was the best scale). Note: in \fB\-\-minimal\fR mode | |
2857 | latencies are always expressed in microseconds. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2858 | .TP |
2859 | .B clat | |
40943b9a TK |
2860 | Completion latency. Same names as slat, this denotes the time from |
2861 | submission to completion of the I/O pieces. For sync I/O, clat will | |
2862 | usually be equal (or very close) to 0, as the time from submit to | |
2863 | complete is basically just CPU time (I/O has already been done, see slat | |
2864 | explanation). | |
d60e92d1 | 2865 | .TP |
d3b9694d VF |
2866 | .B lat |
2867 | Total latency. Same names as slat and clat, this denotes the time from | |
2868 | when fio created the I/O unit to completion of the I/O operation. | |
2869 | .TP | |
d60e92d1 | 2870 | .B bw |
40943b9a TK |
2871 | Bandwidth statistics based on samples. Same names as the xlat stats, |
2872 | but also includes the number of samples taken (\fIsamples\fR) and an | |
2873 | approximate percentage of total aggregate bandwidth this thread | |
2874 | received in its group (\fIper\fR). This last value is only really | |
2875 | useful if the threads in this group are on the same disk, since they | |
2876 | are then competing for disk access. | |
2877 | .TP | |
2878 | .B iops | |
2879 | IOPS statistics based on samples. Same names as \fBbw\fR. | |
d60e92d1 | 2880 | .TP |
d3b9694d VF |
2881 | .B lat (nsec/usec/msec) |
2882 | The distribution of I/O completion latencies. This is the time from when | |
2883 | I/O leaves fio and when it gets completed. Unlike the separate | |
2884 | read/write/trim sections above, the data here and in the remaining | |
2885 | sections apply to all I/Os for the reporting group. 250=0.04% means that | |
2886 | 0.04% of the I/Os completed in under 250us. 500=64.11% means that 64.11% | |
2887 | of the I/Os required 250 to 499us for completion. | |
2888 | .TP | |
d60e92d1 | 2889 | .B cpu |
40943b9a TK |
2890 | CPU usage. User and system time, along with the number of context |
2891 | switches this thread went through, usage of system and user time, and | |
2892 | finally the number of major and minor page faults. The CPU utilization | |
2893 | numbers are averages for the jobs in that reporting group, while the | |
2894 | context and fault counters are summed. | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2895 | .TP |
2896 | .B IO depths | |
40943b9a TK |
2897 | The distribution of I/O depths over the job lifetime. The numbers are |
2898 | divided into powers of 2 and each entry covers depths from that value | |
2899 | up to those that are lower than the next entry \-\- e.g., 16= covers | |
2900 | depths from 16 to 31. Note that the range covered by a depth | |
2901 | distribution entry can be different to the range covered by the | |
2902 | equivalent \fBsubmit\fR/\fBcomplete\fR distribution entry. | |
2903 | .TP | |
2904 | .B IO submit | |
2905 | How many pieces of I/O were submitting in a single submit call. Each | |
2906 | entry denotes that amount and below, until the previous entry \-\- e.g., | |
2907 | 16=100% means that we submitted anywhere between 9 to 16 I/Os per submit | |
2908 | call. Note that the range covered by a \fBsubmit\fR distribution entry can | |
2909 | be different to the range covered by the equivalent depth distribution | |
2910 | entry. | |
2911 | .TP | |
2912 | .B IO complete | |
2913 | Like the above \fBsubmit\fR number, but for completions instead. | |
2914 | .TP | |
2915 | .B IO issued rwt | |
2916 | The number of \fBread/write/trim\fR requests issued, and how many of them were | |
2917 | short or dropped. | |
d60e92d1 | 2918 | .TP |
d3b9694d | 2919 | .B IO latency |
ee21ebee | 2920 | These values are for \fBlatency_target\fR and related options. When |
d3b9694d VF |
2921 | these options are engaged, this section describes the I/O depth required |
2922 | to meet the specified latency target. | |
d60e92d1 | 2923 | .RE |
d60e92d1 | 2924 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2925 | After each client has been listed, the group statistics are printed. They |
2926 | will look like this: | |
2927 | .P | |
2928 | .nf | |
2929 | Run status group 0 (all jobs): | |
2930 | READ: bw=20.9MiB/s (21.9MB/s), 10.4MiB/s\-10.8MiB/s (10.9MB/s\-11.3MB/s), io=64.0MiB (67.1MB), run=2973\-3069msec | |
2931 | WRITE: bw=1231KiB/s (1261kB/s), 616KiB/s\-621KiB/s (630kB/s\-636kB/s), io=64.0MiB (67.1MB), run=52747\-53223msec | |
2932 | .fi | |
2933 | .P | |
2934 | For each data direction it prints: | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2935 | .RS |
2936 | .TP | |
40943b9a TK |
2937 | .B bw |
2938 | Aggregate bandwidth of threads in this group followed by the | |
2939 | minimum and maximum bandwidth of all the threads in this group. | |
2940 | Values outside of brackets are power\-of\-2 format and those | |
2941 | within are the equivalent value in a power\-of\-10 format. | |
d60e92d1 | 2942 | .TP |
40943b9a TK |
2943 | .B io |
2944 | Aggregate I/O performed of all threads in this group. The | |
2945 | format is the same as \fBbw\fR. | |
d60e92d1 | 2946 | .TP |
40943b9a TK |
2947 | .B run |
2948 | The smallest and longest runtimes of the threads in this group. | |
d60e92d1 | 2949 | .RE |
d60e92d1 | 2950 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2951 | And finally, the disk statistics are printed. This is Linux specific. |
2952 | They will look like this: | |
2953 | .P | |
2954 | .nf | |
2955 | Disk stats (read/write): | |
2956 | sda: ios=16398/16511, merge=30/162, ticks=6853/819634, in_queue=826487, util=100.00% | |
2957 | .fi | |
2958 | .P | |
2959 | Each value is printed for both reads and writes, with reads first. The | |
2960 | numbers denote: | |
d60e92d1 AC |
2961 | .RS |
2962 | .TP | |
2963 | .B ios | |
2964 | Number of I/Os performed by all groups. | |
2965 | .TP | |
2966 | .B merge | |
007c7be9 | 2967 | Number of merges performed by the I/O scheduler. |
d60e92d1 AC |
2968 | .TP |
2969 | .B ticks | |
2970 | Number of ticks we kept the disk busy. | |
2971 | .TP | |
40943b9a | 2972 | .B in_queue |
d60e92d1 AC |
2973 | Total time spent in the disk queue. |
2974 | .TP | |
2975 | .B util | |
40943b9a TK |
2976 | The disk utilization. A value of 100% means we kept the disk |
2977 | busy constantly, 50% would be a disk idling half of the time. | |
d60e92d1 | 2978 | .RE |
8423bd11 | 2979 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2980 | It is also possible to get fio to dump the current output while it is running, |
2981 | without terminating the job. To do that, send fio the USR1 signal. You can | |
2982 | also get regularly timed dumps by using the \fB\-\-status\-interval\fR | |
2983 | parameter, or by creating a file in `/tmp' named | |
2984 | `fio\-dump\-status'. If fio sees this file, it will unlink it and dump the | |
2985 | current output status. | |
d60e92d1 | 2986 | .SH TERSE OUTPUT |
40943b9a TK |
2987 | For scripted usage where you typically want to generate tables or graphs of the |
2988 | results, fio can output the results in a semicolon separated format. The format | |
2989 | is one long line of values, such as: | |
d60e92d1 | 2990 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2991 | .nf |
2992 | 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% | |
2993 | A description of this job goes here. | |
2994 | .fi | |
d60e92d1 | 2995 | .P |
40943b9a | 2996 | The job description (if provided) follows on a second line. |
d60e92d1 | 2997 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
2998 | To enable terse output, use the \fB\-\-minimal\fR or |
2999 | `\-\-output\-format=terse' command line options. The | |
3000 | first value is the version of the terse output format. If the output has to be | |
3001 | changed for some reason, this number will be incremented by 1 to signify that | |
3002 | change. | |
d60e92d1 | 3003 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
3004 | Split up, the format is as follows (comments in brackets denote when a |
3005 | field was introduced or whether it's specific to some terse version): | |
d60e92d1 | 3006 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
3007 | .nf |
3008 | terse version, fio version [v3], jobname, groupid, error | |
3009 | .fi | |
525c2bfa | 3010 | .RS |
40943b9a TK |
3011 | .P |
3012 | .B | |
3013 | READ status: | |
525c2bfa | 3014 | .RE |
40943b9a TK |
3015 | .P |
3016 | .nf | |
3017 | Total IO (KiB), bandwidth (KiB/sec), IOPS, runtime (msec) | |
3018 | Submission latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec) | |
3019 | Completion latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec) | |
3020 | Completion latency percentiles: 20 fields (see below) | |
3021 | Total latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec) | |
3022 | Bw (KiB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, stdev, number of samples [v5] | |
3023 | IOPS [v5]: min, max, mean, stdev, number of samples | |
3024 | .fi | |
d60e92d1 | 3025 | .RS |
40943b9a TK |
3026 | .P |
3027 | .B | |
3028 | WRITE status: | |
a2c95580 | 3029 | .RE |
40943b9a TK |
3030 | .P |
3031 | .nf | |
3032 | Total IO (KiB), bandwidth (KiB/sec), IOPS, runtime (msec) | |
3033 | Submission latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec) | |
3034 | Completion latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec) | |
3035 | Completion latency percentiles: 20 fields (see below) | |
3036 | Total latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec) | |
3037 | Bw (KiB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, stdev, number of samples [v5] | |
3038 | IOPS [v5]: min, max, mean, stdev, number of samples | |
3039 | .fi | |
a2c95580 | 3040 | .RS |
40943b9a TK |
3041 | .P |
3042 | .B | |
3043 | TRIM status [all but version 3]: | |
d60e92d1 AC |
3044 | .RE |
3045 | .P | |
40943b9a TK |
3046 | .nf |
3047 | Fields are similar to \fBREAD/WRITE\fR status. | |
3048 | .fi | |
a2c95580 | 3049 | .RS |
a2c95580 | 3050 | .P |
40943b9a | 3051 | .B |
d1429b5c | 3052 | CPU usage: |
d60e92d1 AC |
3053 | .RE |
3054 | .P | |
40943b9a TK |
3055 | .nf |
3056 | user, system, context switches, major faults, minor faults | |
3057 | .fi | |
d60e92d1 | 3058 | .RS |
40943b9a TK |
3059 | .P |
3060 | .B | |
3061 | I/O depths: | |
d60e92d1 AC |
3062 | .RE |
3063 | .P | |
40943b9a TK |
3064 | .nf |
3065 | <=1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, >=64 | |
3066 | .fi | |
562c2d2f | 3067 | .RS |
40943b9a TK |
3068 | .P |
3069 | .B | |
3070 | I/O latencies microseconds: | |
562c2d2f | 3071 | .RE |
40943b9a TK |
3072 | .P |
3073 | .nf | |
3074 | <=2, 4, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000 | |
3075 | .fi | |
562c2d2f | 3076 | .RS |
40943b9a TK |
3077 | .P |
3078 | .B | |
3079 | I/O latencies milliseconds: | |
562c2d2f DN |
3080 | .RE |
3081 | .P | |
40943b9a TK |
3082 | .nf |
3083 | <=2, 4, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 2000, >=2000 | |
3084 | .fi | |
f2f788dd | 3085 | .RS |
40943b9a TK |
3086 | .P |
3087 | .B | |
3088 | Disk utilization [v3]: | |
f2f788dd JA |
3089 | .RE |
3090 | .P | |
40943b9a TK |
3091 | .nf |
3092 | disk name, read ios, write ios, read merges, write merges, read ticks, write ticks, time spent in queue, disk utilization percentage | |
3093 | .fi | |
562c2d2f | 3094 | .RS |
d60e92d1 | 3095 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
3096 | .B |
3097 | Additional Info (dependent on continue_on_error, default off): | |
d60e92d1 | 3098 | .RE |
2fc26c3d | 3099 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
3100 | .nf |
3101 | total # errors, first error code | |
3102 | .fi | |
2fc26c3d IC |
3103 | .RS |
3104 | .P | |
40943b9a TK |
3105 | .B |
3106 | Additional Info (dependent on description being set): | |
3107 | .RE | |
3108 | .P | |
2fc26c3d | 3109 | .nf |
40943b9a TK |
3110 | Text description |
3111 | .fi | |
3112 | .P | |
3113 | Completion latency percentiles can be a grouping of up to 20 sets, so for the | |
3114 | terse output fio writes all of them. Each field will look like this: | |
3115 | .P | |
3116 | .nf | |
3117 | 1.00%=6112 | |
3118 | .fi | |
3119 | .P | |
3120 | which is the Xth percentile, and the `usec' latency associated with it. | |
3121 | .P | |
3122 | For \fBDisk utilization\fR, all disks used by fio are shown. So for each disk there | |
3123 | will be a disk utilization section. | |
3124 | .P | |
3125 | Below is a single line containing short names for each of the fields in the | |
3126 | minimal output v3, separated by semicolons: | |
3127 | .P | |
3128 | .nf | |
3129 | terse_version_3;fio_version;jobname;groupid;error;read_kb;read_bandwidth;read_iops;read_runtime_ms;read_slat_min;read_slat_max;read_slat_mean;read_slat_dev;read_clat_min;read_clat_max;read_clat_mean;read_clat_dev;read_clat_pct01;read_clat_pct02;read_clat_pct03;read_clat_pct04;read_clat_pct05;read_clat_pct06;read_clat_pct07;read_clat_pct08;read_clat_pct09;read_clat_pct10;read_clat_pct11;read_clat_pct12;read_clat_pct13;read_clat_pct14;read_clat_pct15;read_clat_pct16;read_clat_pct17;read_clat_pct18;read_clat_pct19;read_clat_pct20;read_tlat_min;read_lat_max;read_lat_mean;read_lat_dev;read_bw_min;read_bw_max;read_bw_agg_pct;read_bw_mean;read_bw_dev;write_kb;write_bandwidth;write_iops;write_runtime_ms;write_slat_min;write_slat_max;write_slat_mean;write_slat_dev;write_clat_min;write_clat_max;write_clat_mean;write_clat_dev;write_clat_pct01;write_clat_pct02;write_clat_pct03;write_clat_pct04;write_clat_pct05;write_clat_pct06;write_clat_pct07;write_clat_pct08;write_clat_pct09;write_clat_pct10;write_clat_pct11;write_clat_pct12;write_clat_pct13;write_clat_pct14;write_clat_pct15;write_clat_pct16;write_clat_pct17;write_clat_pct18;write_clat_pct19;write_clat_pct20;write_tlat_min;write_lat_max;write_lat_mean;write_lat_dev;write_bw_min;write_bw_max;write_bw_agg_pct;write_bw_mean;write_bw_dev;cpu_user;cpu_sys;cpu_csw;cpu_mjf;cpu_minf;iodepth_1;iodepth_2;iodepth_4;iodepth_8;iodepth_16;iodepth_32;iodepth_64;lat_2us;lat_4us;lat_10us;lat_20us;lat_50us;lat_100us;lat_250us;lat_500us;lat_750us;lat_1000us;lat_2ms;lat_4ms;lat_10ms;lat_20ms;lat_50ms;lat_100ms;lat_250ms;lat_500ms;lat_750ms;lat_1000ms;lat_2000ms;lat_over_2000ms;disk_name;disk_read_iops;disk_write_iops;disk_read_merges;disk_write_merges;disk_read_ticks;write_ticks;disk_queue_time;disk_util | |
2fc26c3d | 3130 | .fi |
44c82dba VF |
3131 | .SH JSON OUTPUT |
3132 | The \fBjson\fR output format is intended to be both human readable and convenient | |
3133 | for automated parsing. For the most part its sections mirror those of the | |
3134 | \fBnormal\fR output. The \fBruntime\fR value is reported in msec and the \fBbw\fR value is | |
3135 | reported in 1024 bytes per second units. | |
3136 | .fi | |
d9e557ab VF |
3137 | .SH JSON+ OUTPUT |
3138 | The \fBjson+\fR output format is identical to the \fBjson\fR output format except that it | |
3139 | adds a full dump of the completion latency bins. Each \fBbins\fR object contains a | |
3140 | set of (key, value) pairs where keys are latency durations and values count how | |
3141 | many I/Os had completion latencies of the corresponding duration. For example, | |
3142 | consider: | |
d9e557ab | 3143 | .RS |
40943b9a | 3144 | .P |
d9e557ab VF |
3145 | "bins" : { "87552" : 1, "89600" : 1, "94720" : 1, "96768" : 1, "97792" : 1, "99840" : 1, "100864" : 2, "103936" : 6, "104960" : 534, "105984" : 5995, "107008" : 7529, ... } |
3146 | .RE | |
40943b9a | 3147 | .P |
d9e557ab VF |
3148 | This data indicates that one I/O required 87,552ns to complete, two I/Os required |
3149 | 100,864ns to complete, and 7529 I/Os required 107,008ns to complete. | |
40943b9a | 3150 | .P |
d9e557ab | 3151 | Also included with fio is a Python script \fBfio_jsonplus_clat2csv\fR that takes |
40943b9a TK |
3152 | json+ output and generates CSV\-formatted latency data suitable for plotting. |
3153 | .P | |
d9e557ab | 3154 | The latency durations actually represent the midpoints of latency intervals. |
40943b9a | 3155 | For details refer to `stat.h' in the fio source. |
29dbd1e5 | 3156 | .SH TRACE FILE FORMAT |
40943b9a TK |
3157 | There are two trace file format that you can encounter. The older (v1) format is |
3158 | unsupported since version 1.20\-rc3 (March 2008). It will still be described | |
29dbd1e5 | 3159 | below in case that you get an old trace and want to understand it. |
29dbd1e5 | 3160 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
3161 | In any case the trace is a simple text file with a single action per line. |
3162 | .TP | |
29dbd1e5 | 3163 | .B Trace file format v1 |
40943b9a | 3164 | Each line represents a single I/O action in the following format: |
29dbd1e5 | 3165 | .RS |
40943b9a TK |
3166 | .RS |
3167 | .P | |
29dbd1e5 | 3168 | rw, offset, length |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3169 | .RE |
3170 | .P | |
40943b9a TK |
3171 | where `rw=0/1' for read/write, and the `offset' and `length' entries being in bytes. |
3172 | .P | |
3173 | This format is not supported in fio versions >= 1.20\-rc3. | |
3174 | .RE | |
3175 | .TP | |
29dbd1e5 | 3176 | .B Trace file format v2 |
40943b9a TK |
3177 | The second version of the trace file format was added in fio version 1.17. It |
3178 | allows to access more then one file per trace and has a bigger set of possible | |
3179 | file actions. | |
29dbd1e5 | 3180 | .RS |
40943b9a | 3181 | .P |
29dbd1e5 | 3182 | The first line of the trace file has to be: |
40943b9a TK |
3183 | .RS |
3184 | .P | |
3185 | "fio version 2 iolog" | |
3186 | .RE | |
3187 | .P | |
29dbd1e5 | 3188 | Following this can be lines in two different formats, which are described below. |
40943b9a TK |
3189 | .P |
3190 | .B | |
29dbd1e5 | 3191 | The file management format: |
40943b9a TK |
3192 | .RS |
3193 | filename action | |
29dbd1e5 | 3194 | .P |
40943b9a | 3195 | The `filename' is given as an absolute path. The `action' can be one of these: |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3196 | .RS |
3197 | .TP | |
3198 | .B add | |
40943b9a | 3199 | Add the given `filename' to the trace. |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3200 | .TP |
3201 | .B open | |
40943b9a TK |
3202 | Open the file with the given `filename'. The `filename' has to have |
3203 | been added with the \fBadd\fR action before. | |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3204 | .TP |
3205 | .B close | |
40943b9a TK |
3206 | Close the file with the given `filename'. The file has to have been |
3207 | \fBopen\fRed before. | |
3208 | .RE | |
29dbd1e5 | 3209 | .RE |
29dbd1e5 | 3210 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
3211 | .B |
3212 | The file I/O action format: | |
3213 | .RS | |
3214 | filename action offset length | |
29dbd1e5 | 3215 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
3216 | The `filename' is given as an absolute path, and has to have been \fBadd\fRed and |
3217 | \fBopen\fRed before it can be used with this format. The `offset' and `length' are | |
3218 | given in bytes. The `action' can be one of these: | |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3219 | .RS |
3220 | .TP | |
3221 | .B wait | |
40943b9a TK |
3222 | Wait for `offset' microseconds. Everything below 100 is discarded. |
3223 | The time is relative to the previous `wait' statement. | |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3224 | .TP |
3225 | .B read | |
40943b9a | 3226 | Read `length' bytes beginning from `offset'. |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3227 | .TP |
3228 | .B write | |
40943b9a | 3229 | Write `length' bytes beginning from `offset'. |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3230 | .TP |
3231 | .B sync | |
40943b9a | 3232 | \fBfsync\fR\|(2) the file. |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3233 | .TP |
3234 | .B datasync | |
40943b9a | 3235 | \fBfdatasync\fR\|(2) the file. |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3236 | .TP |
3237 | .B trim | |
40943b9a TK |
3238 | Trim the given file from the given `offset' for `length' bytes. |
3239 | .RE | |
29dbd1e5 | 3240 | .RE |
29dbd1e5 | 3241 | .SH CPU IDLENESS PROFILING |
40943b9a TK |
3242 | In some cases, we want to understand CPU overhead in a test. For example, we |
3243 | test patches for the specific goodness of whether they reduce CPU usage. | |
3244 | Fio implements a balloon approach to create a thread per CPU that runs at idle | |
3245 | priority, meaning that it only runs when nobody else needs the cpu. | |
3246 | By measuring the amount of work completed by the thread, idleness of each CPU | |
3247 | can be derived accordingly. | |
3248 | .P | |
3249 | An unit work is defined as touching a full page of unsigned characters. Mean and | |
3250 | standard deviation of time to complete an unit work is reported in "unit work" | |
3251 | section. Options can be chosen to report detailed percpu idleness or overall | |
3252 | system idleness by aggregating percpu stats. | |
29dbd1e5 | 3253 | .SH VERIFICATION AND TRIGGERS |
40943b9a TK |
3254 | Fio is usually run in one of two ways, when data verification is done. The first |
3255 | is a normal write job of some sort with verify enabled. When the write phase has | |
3256 | completed, fio switches to reads and verifies everything it wrote. The second | |
3257 | model is running just the write phase, and then later on running the same job | |
3258 | (but with reads instead of writes) to repeat the same I/O patterns and verify | |
3259 | the contents. Both of these methods depend on the write phase being completed, | |
3260 | as fio otherwise has no idea how much data was written. | |
3261 | .P | |
3262 | With verification triggers, fio supports dumping the current write state to | |
3263 | local files. Then a subsequent read verify workload can load this state and know | |
3264 | exactly where to stop. This is useful for testing cases where power is cut to a | |
3265 | server in a managed fashion, for instance. | |
3266 | .P | |
29dbd1e5 | 3267 | A verification trigger consists of two things: |
29dbd1e5 | 3268 | .RS |
40943b9a TK |
3269 | .P |
3270 | 1) Storing the write state of each job. | |
3271 | .P | |
3272 | 2) Executing a trigger command. | |
29dbd1e5 | 3273 | .RE |
40943b9a TK |
3274 | .P |
3275 | The write state is relatively small, on the order of hundreds of bytes to single | |
3276 | kilobytes. It contains information on the number of completions done, the last X | |
3277 | completions, etc. | |
3278 | .P | |
3279 | A trigger is invoked either through creation ('touch') of a specified file in | |
3280 | the system, or through a timeout setting. If fio is run with | |
3281 | `\-\-trigger\-file=/tmp/trigger\-file', then it will continually | |
3282 | check for the existence of `/tmp/trigger\-file'. When it sees this file, it | |
3283 | will fire off the trigger (thus saving state, and executing the trigger | |
29dbd1e5 | 3284 | command). |
40943b9a TK |
3285 | .P |
3286 | For client/server runs, there's both a local and remote trigger. If fio is | |
3287 | running as a server backend, it will send the job states back to the client for | |
3288 | safe storage, then execute the remote trigger, if specified. If a local trigger | |
3289 | is specified, the server will still send back the write state, but the client | |
3290 | will then execute the trigger. | |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3291 | .RE |
3292 | .P | |
3293 | .B Verification trigger example | |
3294 | .RS | |
40943b9a TK |
3295 | Let's say we want to run a powercut test on the remote Linux machine 'server'. |
3296 | Our write workload is in `write\-test.fio'. We want to cut power to 'server' at | |
3297 | some point during the run, and we'll run this test from the safety or our local | |
3298 | machine, 'localbox'. On the server, we'll start the fio backend normally: | |
3299 | .RS | |
3300 | .P | |
3301 | server# fio \-\-server | |
3302 | .RE | |
3303 | .P | |
29dbd1e5 | 3304 | and on the client, we'll fire off the workload: |
40943b9a TK |
3305 | .RS |
3306 | .P | |
3307 | localbox$ fio \-\-client=server \-\-trigger\-file=/tmp/my\-trigger \-\-trigger\-remote="bash \-c "echo b > /proc/sysrq\-triger"" | |
3308 | .RE | |
3309 | .P | |
3310 | We set `/tmp/my\-trigger' as the trigger file, and we tell fio to execute: | |
3311 | .RS | |
3312 | .P | |
3313 | echo b > /proc/sysrq\-trigger | |
3314 | .RE | |
3315 | .P | |
3316 | on the server once it has received the trigger and sent us the write state. This | |
3317 | will work, but it's not really cutting power to the server, it's merely | |
3318 | abruptly rebooting it. If we have a remote way of cutting power to the server | |
3319 | through IPMI or similar, we could do that through a local trigger command | |
3320 | instead. Let's assume we have a script that does IPMI reboot of a given hostname, | |
3321 | ipmi\-reboot. On localbox, we could then have run fio with a local trigger | |
3322 | instead: | |
3323 | .RS | |
3324 | .P | |
3325 | localbox$ fio \-\-client=server \-\-trigger\-file=/tmp/my\-trigger \-\-trigger="ipmi\-reboot server" | |
3326 | .RE | |
3327 | .P | |
3328 | For this case, fio would wait for the server to send us the write state, then | |
3329 | execute `ipmi\-reboot server' when that happened. | |
29dbd1e5 JA |
3330 | .RE |
3331 | .P | |
3332 | .B Loading verify state | |
3333 | .RS | |
40943b9a TK |
3334 | To load stored write state, a read verification job file must contain the |
3335 | \fBverify_state_load\fR option. If that is set, fio will load the previously | |
29dbd1e5 | 3336 | stored state. For a local fio run this is done by loading the files directly, |
40943b9a TK |
3337 | and on a client/server run, the server backend will ask the client to send the |
3338 | files over and load them from there. | |
29dbd1e5 | 3339 | .RE |
a3ae5b05 | 3340 | .SH LOG FILE FORMATS |
a3ae5b05 JA |
3341 | Fio supports a variety of log file formats, for logging latencies, bandwidth, |
3342 | and IOPS. The logs share a common format, which looks like this: | |
40943b9a | 3343 | .RS |
a3ae5b05 | 3344 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
3345 | time (msec), value, data direction, block size (bytes), offset (bytes) |
3346 | .RE | |
3347 | .P | |
3348 | `Time' for the log entry is always in milliseconds. The `value' logged depends | |
3349 | on the type of log, it will be one of the following: | |
3350 | .RS | |
a3ae5b05 JA |
3351 | .TP |
3352 | .B Latency log | |
168bb587 | 3353 | Value is latency in nsecs |
a3ae5b05 JA |
3354 | .TP |
3355 | .B Bandwidth log | |
6d500c2e | 3356 | Value is in KiB/sec |
a3ae5b05 JA |
3357 | .TP |
3358 | .B IOPS log | |
40943b9a TK |
3359 | Value is IOPS |
3360 | .RE | |
a3ae5b05 | 3361 | .P |
40943b9a TK |
3362 | `Data direction' is one of the following: |
3363 | .RS | |
a3ae5b05 JA |
3364 | .TP |
3365 | .B 0 | |
40943b9a | 3366 | I/O is a READ |
a3ae5b05 JA |
3367 | .TP |
3368 | .B 1 | |
40943b9a | 3369 | I/O is a WRITE |
a3ae5b05 JA |
3370 | .TP |
3371 | .B 2 | |
40943b9a | 3372 | I/O is a TRIM |
a3ae5b05 | 3373 | .RE |
40943b9a TK |
3374 | .P |
3375 | The entry's `block size' is always in bytes. The `offset' is the offset, in bytes, | |
3376 | from the start of the file, for that particular I/O. The logging of the offset can be | |
3377 | toggled with \fBlog_offset\fR. | |
3378 | .P | |
3379 | Fio defaults to logging every individual I/O. When IOPS are logged for individual | |
3380 | I/Os the `value' entry will always be 1. If windowed logging is enabled through | |
3381 | \fBlog_avg_msec\fR, fio logs the average values over the specified period of time. | |
3382 | If windowed logging is enabled and \fBlog_max_value\fR is set, then fio logs | |
3383 | maximum values in that window instead of averages. Since `data direction', `block size' | |
3384 | and `offset' are per\-I/O values, if windowed logging is enabled they | |
3385 | aren't applicable and will be 0. | |
49da1240 | 3386 | .SH CLIENT / SERVER |
40943b9a TK |
3387 | Normally fio is invoked as a stand\-alone application on the machine where the |
3388 | I/O workload should be generated. However, the backend and frontend of fio can | |
3389 | be run separately i.e., the fio server can generate an I/O workload on the "Device | |
3390 | Under Test" while being controlled by a client on another machine. | |
3391 | .P | |
3392 | Start the server on the machine which has access to the storage DUT: | |
3393 | .RS | |
3394 | .P | |
3395 | $ fio \-\-server=args | |
3396 | .RE | |
3397 | .P | |
3398 | where `args' defines what fio listens to. The arguments are of the form | |
3399 | `type,hostname' or `IP,port'. `type' is either `ip' (or ip4) for TCP/IP | |
3400 | v4, `ip6' for TCP/IP v6, or `sock' for a local unix domain socket. | |
3401 | `hostname' is either a hostname or IP address, and `port' is the port to listen | |
3402 | to (only valid for TCP/IP, not a local socket). Some examples: | |
3403 | .RS | |
3404 | .TP | |
e0ee7a8b | 3405 | 1) \fBfio \-\-server\fR |
40943b9a TK |
3406 | Start a fio server, listening on all interfaces on the default port (8765). |
3407 | .TP | |
e0ee7a8b | 3408 | 2) \fBfio \-\-server=ip:hostname,4444\fR |
40943b9a TK |
3409 | Start a fio server, listening on IP belonging to hostname and on port 4444. |
3410 | .TP | |
e0ee7a8b | 3411 | 3) \fBfio \-\-server=ip6:::1,4444\fR |
40943b9a TK |
3412 | Start a fio server, listening on IPv6 localhost ::1 and on port 4444. |
3413 | .TP | |
e0ee7a8b | 3414 | 4) \fBfio \-\-server=,4444\fR |
40943b9a TK |
3415 | Start a fio server, listening on all interfaces on port 4444. |
3416 | .TP | |
e0ee7a8b | 3417 | 5) \fBfio \-\-server=1.2.3.4\fR |
40943b9a TK |
3418 | Start a fio server, listening on IP 1.2.3.4 on the default port. |
3419 | .TP | |
e0ee7a8b | 3420 | 6) \fBfio \-\-server=sock:/tmp/fio.sock\fR |
40943b9a TK |
3421 | Start a fio server, listening on the local socket `/tmp/fio.sock'. |
3422 | .RE | |
3423 | .P | |
3424 | Once a server is running, a "client" can connect to the fio server with: | |
3425 | .RS | |
3426 | .P | |
3427 | $ fio <local\-args> \-\-client=<server> <remote\-args> <job file(s)> | |
3428 | .RE | |
3429 | .P | |
3430 | where `local\-args' are arguments for the client where it is running, `server' | |
3431 | is the connect string, and `remote\-args' and `job file(s)' are sent to the | |
3432 | server. The `server' string follows the same format as it does on the server | |
3433 | side, to allow IP/hostname/socket and port strings. | |
3434 | .P | |
3435 | Fio can connect to multiple servers this way: | |
3436 | .RS | |
3437 | .P | |
3438 | $ fio \-\-client=<server1> <job file(s)> \-\-client=<server2> <job file(s)> | |
3439 | .RE | |
3440 | .P | |
3441 | If the job file is located on the fio server, then you can tell the server to | |
3442 | load a local file as well. This is done by using \fB\-\-remote\-config\fR: | |
3443 | .RS | |
3444 | .P | |
3445 | $ fio \-\-client=server \-\-remote\-config /path/to/file.fio | |
3446 | .RE | |
3447 | .P | |
3448 | Then fio will open this local (to the server) job file instead of being passed | |
3449 | one from the client. | |
3450 | .P | |
ff6bb260 | 3451 | If you have many servers (example: 100 VMs/containers), you can input a pathname |
40943b9a TK |
3452 | of a file containing host IPs/names as the parameter value for the |
3453 | \fB\-\-client\fR option. For example, here is an example `host.list' | |
3454 | file containing 2 hostnames: | |
3455 | .RS | |
3456 | .P | |
3457 | .PD 0 | |
39b5f61e | 3458 | host1.your.dns.domain |
40943b9a | 3459 | .P |
39b5f61e | 3460 | host2.your.dns.domain |
40943b9a TK |
3461 | .PD |
3462 | .RE | |
3463 | .P | |
39b5f61e | 3464 | The fio command would then be: |
40943b9a TK |
3465 | .RS |
3466 | .P | |
3467 | $ fio \-\-client=host.list <job file(s)> | |
3468 | .RE | |
3469 | .P | |
3470 | In this mode, you cannot input server\-specific parameters or job files \-\- all | |
39b5f61e | 3471 | servers receive the same job file. |
40943b9a TK |
3472 | .P |
3473 | In order to let `fio \-\-client' runs use a shared filesystem from multiple | |
3474 | hosts, `fio \-\-client' now prepends the IP address of the server to the | |
3475 | filename. For example, if fio is using the directory `/mnt/nfs/fio' and is | |
3476 | writing filename `fileio.tmp', with a \fB\-\-client\fR `hostfile' | |
3477 | containing two hostnames `h1' and `h2' with IP addresses 192.168.10.120 and | |
3478 | 192.168.10.121, then fio will create two files: | |
3479 | .RS | |
3480 | .P | |
3481 | .PD 0 | |
39b5f61e | 3482 | /mnt/nfs/fio/192.168.10.120.fileio.tmp |
40943b9a | 3483 | .P |
39b5f61e | 3484 | /mnt/nfs/fio/192.168.10.121.fileio.tmp |
40943b9a TK |
3485 | .PD |
3486 | .RE | |
d60e92d1 AC |
3487 | .SH AUTHORS |
3488 | .B fio | |
aa58d252 | 3489 | was written by Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, |
f8b8f7da | 3490 | now Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>. |
d1429b5c AC |
3491 | .br |
3492 | This man page was written by Aaron Carroll <aaronc@cse.unsw.edu.au> based | |
d60e92d1 | 3493 | on documentation by Jens Axboe. |
40943b9a TK |
3494 | .br |
3495 | This man page was rewritten by Tomohiro Kusumi <tkusumi@tuxera.com> based | |
3496 | on documentation by Jens Axboe. | |
d60e92d1 | 3497 | .SH "REPORTING BUGS" |
482900c9 | 3498 | Report bugs to the \fBfio\fR mailing list <fio@vger.kernel.org>. |
6468020d | 3499 | .br |
40943b9a TK |
3500 | See \fBREPORTING\-BUGS\fR. |
3501 | .P | |
3502 | \fBREPORTING\-BUGS\fR: \fIhttp://git.kernel.dk/cgit/fio/plain/REPORTING\-BUGS\fR | |
d60e92d1 | 3503 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
d1429b5c AC |
3504 | For further documentation see \fBHOWTO\fR and \fBREADME\fR. |
3505 | .br | |
40943b9a | 3506 | Sample jobfiles are available in the `examples/' directory. |
9040e236 | 3507 | .br |
40943b9a TK |
3508 | These are typically located under `/usr/share/doc/fio'. |
3509 | .P | |
3510 | \fBHOWTO\fR: \fIhttp://git.kernel.dk/cgit/fio/plain/HOWTO\fR | |
9040e236 | 3511 | .br |
40943b9a | 3512 | \fBREADME\fR: \fIhttp://git.kernel.dk/cgit/fio/plain/README\fR |