From: Jens Axboe Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:12:25 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Document loading external io engines X-Git-Tag: fio-1.13~24 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a7bd8773ceb3202690f2de4a9cd0e738b5a6edc;p=fio.git Document loading external io engines Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO index de4b0a99..745e9c72 100644 --- a/HOWTO +++ b/HOWTO @@ -289,6 +289,11 @@ ioengine=str Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following or receive, if the latter only the port argument is used. + external Prefix to specify loading an external + IO engine object file. Append the engine + filename, eg ioengine=external:/tmp/foo.o + to load ioengine foo.o in /tmp. + iodepth=int This defines how many io units to keep in flight against the file. The default is 1 for each file defined in this job, can be overridden with a larger value for higher