.RE
.P
.TP
+.BI unique_filename \fR=\fPbool
+To avoid collisions between networked clients, fio defaults to prefixing
+any generated filenames (with a directory specified) with the source of
+the client connecting. To disable this behavior, set this option to 0.
+.TP
.BI lockfile \fR=\fPstr
Fio defaults to not locking any files before it does IO to them. If a file or
file descriptor is shared, fio can serialize IO to that file to make the end
.TP
.B sequential
Do each file in the set sequentially.
+.TP
+.B zipf
+Use a zipfian distribution to decide what file to access.
+.TP
+.B pareto
+Use a pareto distribution to decide what file to access.
+.TP
+.B gauss
+Use a gaussian (normal) distribution to decide what file to access.
.RE
.P
-The number of I/Os to issue before switching to a new file can be specified by
-appending `:\fIint\fR' to the service type.
+For \fBrandom\fR, \fBroundrobin\fR, and \fBsequential\fR, a postfix can be
+appended to tell fio how many I/Os to issue before switching to a new file.
+For example, specifying \fBfile_service_type=random:8\fR would cause fio to
+issue \fI8\fR I/Os before selecting a new file at random. For the non-uniform
+distributions, a floating point postfix can be given to influence how the
+distribution is skewed. See \fBrandom_distribution\fR for a description of how
+that would work.
.RE
.TP
.BI ioengine \fR=\fPstr
\fBsplice\fR\|(2) is used to transfer the data and \fBvmsplice\fR\|(2) to
transfer data from user-space to the kernel.
.TP
-.B syslet-rw
-Use the syslet system calls to make regular read/write asynchronous.
-.TP
.B sg
SCSI generic sg v3 I/O. May be either synchronous using the SG_IO ioctl, or if
the target is an sg character device, we use \fBread\fR\|(2) and
to go in a certain pattern, e.g., on NAND, writing sequentially to erase blocks
and discarding before overwriting. The writetrim mode works well for this
constraint.
+.TP
+.B pmemblk
+Read and write through the NVML libpmemblk interface.
.RE
.P
.RE
to finish.
.TP
.BI bwavgtime \fR=\fPint
-Average bandwidth calculations over the given time in milliseconds. Default:
-500ms.
+Average bandwidth calculations over the given time in milliseconds. If the job
+also does bandwidth logging through \fBwrite_bw_log\fR, then the minimum of
+this option and \fBlog_avg_msec\fR will be used. Default: 500ms.
.TP
.BI iopsavgtime \fR=\fPint
-Average IOPS calculations over the given time in milliseconds. Default:
-500ms.
+Average IOPS calculations over the given time in milliseconds. If the job
+also does IOPS logging through \fBwrite_iops_log\fR, then the minimum of
+this option and \fBlog_avg_msec\fR will be used. Default: 500ms.
.TP
.BI create_serialize \fR=\fPbool
If true, serialize file creation for the jobs. Default: true.
IO that completes. When writing to the disk log, that can quickly grow to a
very large size. Setting this option makes fio average the each log entry
over the specified period of time, reducing the resolution of the log. See
-\fBlog_max\fR as well. Defaults to 0, logging all entries.
+\fBlog_max_value\fR as well. Defaults to 0, logging all entries.
.TP
-.BI log_max \fR=\fPbool
+.BI log_max_value \fR=\fPbool
If \fBlog_avg_msec\fR is set, fio logs the average over that window. If you
instead want to log the maximum value, set this option to 1. Defaults to
0, meaning that averaged values are logged.
enabled when polling for a minimum of 0 events (eg when
iodepth_batch_complete=0).
.TP
-.BI (psyncv2)hipri
+.BI (pvsync2)hipri
Set RWF_HIPRI on IO, indicating to the kernel that it's of
higher priority than normal.
.TP
.BI 1:
allocate space immediately inside defragment event, and free right after event
.RE
+.TP
+.BI (rbd)clustername \fR=\fPstr
+Specifies the name of the ceph cluster.
.TP
.BI (rbd)rbdname \fR=\fPstr
Specifies the name of the RBD.
Specifies the name of the Ceph pool containing the RBD.
.TP
.BI (rbd)clientname \fR=\fPstr
-Specifies the username (without the 'client.' prefix) used to access the Ceph cluster.
+Specifies the username (without the 'client.' prefix) used to access the Ceph
+cluster. If the clustername is specified, the clientname shall be the full
+type.id string. If no type. prefix is given, fio will add 'client.' by default.
.TP
.BI (mtd)skipbad \fR=\fPbool
Skip operations against known bad blocks.
.TP
.B cpu
CPU usage statistics. Includes user and system time, number of context switches
-this thread went through and number of major and minor page faults.
+this thread went through and number of major and minor page faults. The CPU
+utilization numbers are averages for the jobs in that reporting group, while
+the context and fault counters are summed.
.TP
.B IO depths
Distribution of I/O depths. Each depth includes everything less than (or equal)
.B Trace file format v2
.RS
The second version of the trace file format was added in Fio version 1.17.
-It allows to access more then one file per trace and has a bigger set of
+It allows one to access more then one file per trace and has a bigger set of
possible file actions.
The first line of the trace file has to be:
projects / fio.git / blobdiff