doc: minor documentation changes

[fio.git] / HOWTO

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@@ -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.