From: Jens Axboe Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:40:49 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Document the 'group_reporting' option X-Git-Tag: fio-1.14~78 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa28c85af43eae161f0e06f4a7a959371f79bd62;p=fio.git Document the 'group_reporting' option Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO index 06408e40..483f68bc 100644 --- a/HOWTO +++ b/HOWTO @@ -496,7 +496,15 @@ stonewall Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit, before numjobs=int Create the specified number of clones of this job. May be used to setup a larger number of threads/processes doing - the same thing. + the same thing. We regard that grouping of jobs as a + specific group. + +group_reporting If 'numjobs' is set, it may be interesting to display + statistics for the group as a whole instead of for each + individual job. This is especially true of 'numjobs' is + large, looking at individual thread/process output quickly + becomes unwieldy. If 'group_reporting' is specified, fio + will show the final report per-group instead of per-job. thread fio defaults to forking jobs, however if this option is given, fio will use pthread_create(3) to create threads