Add 'wait_for_previous' as an alias for the 'stonewall' option

[fio.git] / HOWTO

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+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -568,6 +568,11 @@ ioengine=str       Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
 
                                for more info on GUASI.
 
+                       rdma    The RDMA I/O engine  supports  both  RDMA
+                               memory semantic(RDMA_WRITE/RDMA_READ) and
+                               channel semantic(Send/Recv) in InfiniBand, RoCE
+                               and iWarp environment.
+
                        external Prefix to specify loading an external
                                IO engine object file. Append the engine
                                filename, eg ioengine=external:/tmp/foo.o
@@ -987,7 +992,8 @@ verify_backlog_batch=int    Control how many blocks fio will verify
                if verify_backlog_batch is larger than verify_backlog, some
                blocks will be verified more than once.
                
-stonewall      Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit, before
+stonewall
+wait_for_previous Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit, before
                starting this one. Can be used to insert serialization
                points in the job file. A stone wall also implies starting
                a new reporting group.