HOWTO: emphasize units in --minimal mode: latency in usec, bw in KB/s

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diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 9263da2feac2e1151d78b58c7ddb023ca1ea507d..73e82653f5e1c8315a2987a1c96e4458162a4507 100644 (file)
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -1341,6 +1341,7 @@ I         Thread initialized, waiting.
 E              Thread exited, not reaped by main thread yet.
 _              Thread reaped, or
 X              Thread reaped, exited with an error.
+K              Thread reaped, exited due to signal.
 
 The other values are fairly self explanatory - number of threads
 currently running and doing io, rate of io since last check (read speed
@@ -1381,7 +1382,8 @@ runt=             The runtime of that thread
                latency, since queue/complete is one operation there. This
                value can be in milliseconds or microseconds, fio will choose
                the most appropriate base and print that. In the example
-               above, milliseconds is the best scale.
+               above, milliseconds is the best scale. Note: in --minimal mode
+               latencies are always expressed in microseconds.
        clat=   Completion latency. Same names as slat, this denotes the
                time from submission to completion of the io pieces. For
                sync io, clat will usually be equal (or very close) to 0,
@@ -1473,14 +1475,14 @@ Split up, the format is as follows:
                Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
                Completion latency percentiles: 20 fields (see below)
                Total latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
-               Bw: min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
+               Bw (KB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
        WRITE status:
                Total IO (KB), bandwidth (KB/sec), IOPS, runtime (msec)
                Submission latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
                Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
                Completion latency percentiles: 20 fields (see below)
                Total latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
-               Bw: min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
+               Bw (KB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
        CPU usage: user, system, context switches, major faults, minor faults
        IO depths: <=1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, >=64
        IO latencies microseconds: <=2, 4, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000