Add support for the Google xxhash checksumming function

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@@ -1105,6 +1105,10 @@ verify=str       If writing to a file, fio can verify the file contents
                        crc7    Use a crc7 sum of the data area and store
                                it in the header of each block.
 
+                       xxhash  Use xxhash as the checksum function. Generally
+                               the fastest software checksum that fio
+                               supports.
+
                        sha512  Use sha512 as the checksum function.
 
                        sha256  Use sha256 as the checksum function.