\fBgettimeofday\fR\|(2) call. The CPU set aside for doing these time
calls will be excluded from other uses. Fio will manually clear it from the
CPU mask of other jobs.
+.TP
+.BI job_start_clock_id \fR=\fPint
+The clock_id passed to the call to \fBclock_gettime\fR used to record job_start
+in the \fBjson\fR output format. Default is 0, or CLOCK_REALTIME.
.SS "Target file/device"
.TP
.BI directory \fR=\fPstr
cmdprio_bssplit=blocksize/percentage/class/level/hint:...
.RE
.P
-This is an extension of the second accepted format that allows to also
+This is an extension of the second accepted format that allows one to also
specify a priority hint.
.P
For all formats, only the read and write data directions are supported, values
.BI (io_uring_cmd)md_per_io_size \fR=\fPint
Size in bytes for separate metadata buffer per IO. Default: 0.
.TP
+.BI (io_uring_cmd)pi_act \fR=\fPint
+Action to take when nvme namespace is formatted with protection information.
+If this is set to 1 and namespace is formatted with metadata size equal to
+protection information size, fio won't use separate metadata buffer or extended
+logical block. If this is set to 1 and namespace is formatted with metadata
+size greater than protection information size, fio will not generate or verify
+the protection information portion of metadata for write or read case
+respectively. If this is set to 0, fio generates protection information for
+write case and verifies for read case. Default: 1.
+.TP
+.BI (io_uring_cmd)pi_chk \fR=\fPstr[,str][,str]
+Controls the protection information check. This can take one or more of these
+values. Default: none.
+.RS
+.RS
+.TP
+.B GUARD
+Enables protection information checking of guard field.
+.TP
+.B REFTAG
+Enables protection information checking of logical block reference tag field.
+.TP
+.B APPTAG
+Enables protection information checking of application tag field.
+.RE
+.RE
+.TP
+.BI (io_uring_cmd)apptag \fR=\fPint
+Specifies logical block application tag value, if namespace is formatted to use
+end to end protection information. Default: 0x1234.
+.TP
+.BI (io_uring_cmd)apptag_mask \fR=\fPint
+Specifies logical block application tag mask value, if namespace is formatted
+to use end to end protection information. Default: 0xffff.
+.TP
.BI (cpuio)cpuload \fR=\fPint
Attempt to use the specified percentage of CPU cycles. This is a mandatory
option when using cpuio I/O engine.
.BI hugepage
Use hugepages, instead of existing posix memory backend. The memory backend
uses hugetlbfs. This require users to allocate hugepages, mount hugetlbfs and
-set an enviornment variable for XNVME_HUGETLB_PATH.
+set an environment variable for XNVME_HUGETLB_PATH.
.TP
.BI spdk
Uses SPDK's memory allocator.
A colon-separated list of additional libblkio properties to be set after
creating but before connecting the libblkio instance. Each property must have
the format \fB<name>=<value>\fR. Colons can be escaped as \fB\\:\fR. These are
-set after the engine sets any other properties, so those can be overriden.
+set after the engine sets any other properties, so those can be overridden.
Available properties depend on the libblkio version in use and are listed at
\fIhttps://libblkio.gitlab.io/libblkio/blkio.html#properties\fR
.TP
A colon-separated list of additional libblkio properties to be set after
connecting but before starting the libblkio instance. Each property must have
the format \fB<name>=<value>\fR. Colons can be escaped as \fB\\:\fR. These are
-set after the engine sets any other properties, so those can be overriden.
+set after the engine sets any other properties, so those can be overridden.
Available properties depend on the libblkio version in use and are listed at
\fIhttps://libblkio.gitlab.io/libblkio/blkio.html#properties\fR
.TP
per-job, use \fBgroup_reporting\fR. Jobs in a file will be part of the
same reporting group, unless if separated by a \fBstonewall\fR, or by
using \fBnew_group\fR.
+.RS
+.P
+NOTE: When \fBgroup_reporting\fR is used along with \fBjson\fR output, there
+are certain per-job properties which can be different between jobs but do not
+have a natural group-level equivalent. Examples include \fBkb_base\fR,
+\fBunit_base\fR, \fBsig_figs\fR, \fBthread_number\fR, \fBpid\fR, and
+\fBjob_start\fR. For these properties, the values for the first job are
+recorded for the group.
+.RE
.TP
.BI new_group
Start a new reporting group. See: \fBgroup_reporting\fR. If not given,
parameter. The files will be stored with a `.fz' suffix.
.TP
.BI log_unix_epoch \fR=\fPbool
-If set, fio will log Unix timestamps to the log files produced by enabling
-write_type_log for each log type, instead of the default zero-based
-timestamps.
+Backward-compatible alias for \fBlog_alternate_epoch\fR.
.TP
.BI log_alternate_epoch \fR=\fPbool
If set, fio will log timestamps based on the epoch used by the clock specified
timestamps.
.TP
.BI log_alternate_epoch_clock_id \fR=\fPint
-Specifies the clock_id to be used by clock_gettime to obtain the alternate epoch
-if either \fBBlog_unix_epoch\fR or \fBlog_alternate_epoch\fR are true. Otherwise has no
-effect. Default value is 0, or CLOCK_REALTIME.
+Specifies the clock_id to be used by clock_gettime to obtain the alternate
+epoch if \fBlog_alternate_epoch\fR is true. Otherwise has no effect. Default
+value is 0, or CLOCK_REALTIME.
.TP
.BI block_error_percentiles \fR=\fPbool
If set, record errors in trim block-sized units from writes and trims and
server. The `server' string follows the same format as it does on the server
side, to allow IP/hostname/socket and port strings.
.P
+Note that all job options must be defined in job files when running fio as a
+client. Any job options specified in `remote\-args' will be ignored.
+.P
Fio can connect to multiple servers this way:
.RS
.P
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