t/axmap: print explicit overlap ranges tested

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 0c604a6adb619ac3ed1285185c91b7b141902164..4071947f24f303edb8739f2b8b048ea9a6ee84d7 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -724,15 +724,22 @@ false.
 .BI unlink_each_loop \fR=\fPbool
 Unlink job files after each iteration or loop. Default: false.
 .TP
 .BI unlink_each_loop \fR=\fPbool
 Unlink job files after each iteration or loop. Default: false.
 .TP

-.BI zonesize \fR=\fPint
-Divide a file into zones of the specified size. See \fBzoneskip\fR.
+Fio supports strided data access. After having read \fBzonesize\fR bytes from an area that is \fBzonerange\fR bytes big, \fBzoneskip\fR bytes are skipped.

 .TP
 .BI zonerange \fR=\fPint
 .TP
 .BI zonerange \fR=\fPint

-Give size of an I/O zone. See \fBzoneskip\fR.
+Size of a single zone in which I/O occurs.
+.TP
+.BI zonesize \fR=\fPint
+Number of bytes to transfer before skipping \fBzoneskip\fR bytes. If this
+parameter is smaller than \fBzonerange\fR then only a fraction of each zone
+with \fBzonerange\fR bytes will be accessed.  If this parameter is larger than
+\fBzonerange\fR then each zone will be accessed multiple times before skipping
+to the next zone.

 .TP
 .BI zoneskip \fR=\fPint
 .TP
 .BI zoneskip \fR=\fPint

-Skip the specified number of bytes when \fBzonesize\fR data has been
-read. The two zone options can be used to only do I/O on zones of a file.
+Skip the specified number of bytes after \fBzonesize\fR bytes of data have been
+transferred.
+

 .SS "I/O type"
 .TP
 .BI direct \fR=\fPbool
 .SS "I/O type"
 .TP
 .BI direct \fR=\fPbool


@@ -1601,6 +1608,15 @@ I/O engine supporting direct access to Ceph Rados Block Devices
 (RBD) via librbd without the need to use the kernel rbd driver. This
 ioengine defines engine specific options.
 .TP
 (RBD) via librbd without the need to use the kernel rbd driver. This
 ioengine defines engine specific options.
 .TP

+.B http
+I/O engine supporting GET/PUT requests over HTTP(S) with libcurl to
+a WebDAV or S3 endpoint.  This ioengine defines engine specific options.
+
+This engine only supports direct IO of iodepth=1; you need to scale this
+via numjobs. blocksize defines the size of the objects to be created.
+
+TRIM is translated to object deletion.
+.TP

 .B gfapi
 Using GlusterFS libgfapi sync interface to direct access to
 GlusterFS volumes without having to go through FUSE. This ioengine
 .B gfapi
 Using GlusterFS libgfapi sync interface to direct access to
 GlusterFS volumes without having to go through FUSE. This ioengine


@@ -1657,6 +1673,20 @@ done other than creating the file.
 Read and write using mmap I/O to a file on a filesystem
 mounted with DAX on a persistent memory device through the PMDK
 libpmem library.
 Read and write using mmap I/O to a file on a filesystem
 mounted with DAX on a persistent memory device through the PMDK
 libpmem library.

+.TP
+.B ime_psync
+Synchronous read and write using DDN's Infinite Memory Engine (IME). This
+engine is very basic and issues calls to IME whenever an IO is queued.
+.TP
+.B ime_psyncv
+Synchronous read and write using DDN's Infinite Memory Engine (IME). This
+engine uses iovecs and will try to stack as much IOs as possible (if the IOs
+are "contiguous" and the IO depth is not exceeded) before issuing a call to IME.
+.TP
+.B ime_aio
+Asynchronous read and write using DDN's Infinite Memory Engine (IME). This
+engine will try to stack as much IOs as possible by creating requests for IME.
+FIO will then decide when to commit these requests.

 .SS "I/O engine specific parameters"
 In addition, there are some parameters which are only valid when a specific
 \fBioengine\fR is in use. These are used identically to normal parameters,
 .SS "I/O engine specific parameters"
 In addition, there are some parameters which are only valid when a specific
 \fBioengine\fR is in use. These are used identically to normal parameters,


@@ -1803,6 +1833,43 @@ by default.
 Poll store instead of waiting for completion. Usually this provides better
 throughput at cost of higher(up to 100%) CPU utilization.
 .TP
 Poll store instead of waiting for completion. Usually this provides better
 throughput at cost of higher(up to 100%) CPU utilization.
 .TP

+.BI (http)http_host \fR=\fPstr
+Hostname to connect to. For S3, this could be the bucket name. Default
+is \fBlocalhost\fR
+.TP
+.BI (http)http_user \fR=\fPstr
+Username for HTTP authentication.
+.TP
+.BI (http)http_pass \fR=\fPstr
+Password for HTTP authentication.
+.TP
+.BI (http)https \fR=\fPstr
+Whether to use HTTPS instead of plain HTTP. \fRon\fP enables HTTPS;
+\fRinsecure\fP will enable HTTPS, but disable SSL peer verification (use
+with caution!).  Default is \fBoff\fR.
+.TP
+.BI (http)http_mode \fR=\fPstr
+Which HTTP access mode to use: webdav, swift, or s3. Default is
+\fBwebdav\fR.
+.TP
+.BI (http)http_s3_region \fR=\fPstr
+The S3 region/zone to include in the request. Default is \fBus-east-1\fR.
+.TP
+.BI (http)http_s3_key \fR=\fPstr
+The S3 secret key.
+.TP
+.BI (http)http_s3_keyid \fR=\fPstr
+The S3 key/access id.
+.TP
+.BI (http)http_swift_auth_token \fR=\fPstr
+The Swift auth token. See the example configuration file on how to
+retrieve this.
+.TP
+.BI (http)http_verbose \fR=\fPint
+Enable verbose requests from libcurl. Useful for debugging. 1 turns on
+verbose logging from libcurl, 2 additionally enables HTTP IO tracing.
+Default is \fB0\fR
+.TP

 .BI (mtd)skip_bad \fR=\fPbool
 Skip operations against known bad blocks.
 .TP
 .BI (mtd)skip_bad \fR=\fPbool
 Skip operations against known bad blocks.
 .TP


@@ -2060,6 +2127,10 @@ to replay a workload captured by blktrace. See
 \fBblktrace\fR\|(8) for how to capture such logging data. For blktrace
 replay, the file needs to be turned into a blkparse binary data file first
 (`blkparse <device> \-o /dev/null \-d file_for_fio.bin').
 \fBblktrace\fR\|(8) for how to capture such logging data. For blktrace
 replay, the file needs to be turned into a blkparse binary data file first
 (`blkparse <device> \-o /dev/null \-d file_for_fio.bin').

+You can specify a number of files by separating the names with a ':' character.
+See the \fBfilename\fR option for information on how to escape ':' and '\'
+characters within the file names. These files will be sequentially assigned to
+job clones created by \fBnumjobs\fR.

 .TP
 .BI read_iolog_chunked \fR=\fPbool
 Determines how iolog is read. If false (default) entire \fBread_iolog\fR will
 .TP
 .BI read_iolog_chunked \fR=\fPbool
 Determines how iolog is read. If false (default) entire \fBread_iolog\fR will