From a881438b54e30b32cb98cfe26342365fc51c10b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sitsofe Wheeler Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:02:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: minor documentation changes - Change some parameter types to be time in the HOWTO. - Put a space before the end of sentence but after links in the README. - Update the Red Hat fio package information. Signed-off-by: Sitsofe Wheeler --- HOWTO | 12 ++++++------ README | 11 ++++++----- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO index d63fff7c..765924d7 100644 --- a/HOWTO +++ b/HOWTO @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ Time related parameters even if the file(s) are completely read or written. It will simply loop over the same workload as many times as the :option:`runtime` allows. -.. option:: startdelay=irange +.. option:: startdelay=irange(time) Delay start of job for the specified number of seconds. Supports all time suffixes to allow specification of hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds @@ -1945,13 +1945,13 @@ I/O depth I/O rate ~~~~~~~~ -.. option:: thinktime=int +.. option:: thinktime=time Stall the job x microseconds after an I/O has completed before issuing the next. May be used to simulate processing being done by an application. See :option:`thinktime_blocks` and :option:`thinktime_spin`. -.. option:: thinktime_spin=int +.. option:: thinktime_spin=time Only valid if :option:`thinktime` is set - pretend to spend CPU time doing something with the data received, before falling back to sleeping for the @@ -2007,14 +2007,14 @@ I/O rate I/O latency ~~~~~~~~~~~ -.. option:: latency_target=int +.. option:: latency_target=time If set, fio will attempt to find the max performance point that the given workload will run at while maintaining a latency below this target. The values is given in microseconds. See :option:`latency_window` and :option:`latency_percentile`. -.. option:: latency_window=int +.. option:: latency_window=time Used with :option:`latency_target` to specify the sample window that the job is run at varying queue depths to test the performance. The value is given @@ -2027,7 +2027,7 @@ I/O latency defaults to 100.0, meaning that all IOs must be equal or below to the value set by :option:`latency_target`. -.. option:: max_latency=int +.. option:: max_latency=time If set, fio will exit the job if it exceeds this maximum latency. It will exit with an ETIME error. diff --git a/README b/README index 8f5385ef..9493c2a5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -92,16 +92,17 @@ Binary packages Debian: Starting with Debian "Squeeze", fio packages are part of the official - Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio. + Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio . Ubuntu: Starting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (aka "Lucid Lynx"), fio packages are part of the Ubuntu "universe" repository. - http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio. + http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio . -Red Hat, CentOS & Co: - Dag Wieërs has RPMs for Red Hat related distros, find them here: - http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fio/. +Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS & Co: + Starting with Fedora 9/Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4, fio + packages are part of the Fedora/EPEL repositories. + https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/fio/ . Mandriva: Mandriva has integrated fio into their package repository, so installing -- 2.25.1