HOWTO: minor fix and backport from man page

[fio.git] / HOWTO

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@@ -576,6 +576,8 @@ Parameter types
 **float_list**
        A list of floating point numbers, separated by a ':' character.
 
+With the above in mind, here follows the complete list of fio job parameters.
+
 
 Units
 ~~~~~
@@ -622,9 +624,6 @@ Units
                Bit based.
 
 
-With the above in mind, here follows the complete list of fio job parameters.
-
-
 Job description
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -1530,6 +1529,7 @@ Buffers and memory
 
                **cudamalloc**
                        Use GPU memory as the buffers for GPUDirect RDMA benchmark.
+                       The ioengine must be rdma.
 
        The area allocated is a function of the maximum allowed bs size for the job,
        multiplied by the I/O depth given. Note that for **shmhuge** and
@@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@ caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the
 
    [libhdfs]
 
-               the listening port of the HFDS cluster namenode.
+               The listening port of the HFDS cluster namenode.
 
 .. option:: interface=str : [netsplice] [net]
 
@@ -1931,7 +1931,7 @@ caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the
        **0**
                Default. Preallocate donor's file on init.
        **1**
-               Allocate space immediately inside defragment event,     and free right
+               Allocate space immediately inside defragment event, and free right
                after event.
 
 .. option:: clustername=str : [rbd]
@@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@ caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the
 
 .. option:: chunk_size : [libhdfs]
 
-       the size of the chunk to use for each file.
+       The size of the chunk to use for each file.
 
 
 I/O depth
@@ -2487,7 +2487,7 @@ Verification
 
 .. option:: verifysort_nr=int
 
-   Pre-load and sort verify blocks for a read workload.
+       Pre-load and sort verify blocks for a read workload.
 
 .. option:: verify_offset=int