.TP
.BI \-\-debug \fR=\fPtype
Enable verbose tracing of various fio actions. May be `all' for all types
-or individual types seperated by a comma (eg \-\-debug=io,file). `help' will
+or individual types separated by a comma (eg \-\-debug=io,file). `help' will
list all available tracing options.
.TP
.B \-\-help
of the value. Accepted suffixes are `k', 'M', 'G', 'T', and 'P', denoting
kilo (1024), mega (1024^2), giga (1024^3), tera (1024^4), and peta (1024^5)
respectively. The suffix is not case sensitive. If prefixed with '0x', the
-value is assumed to be base 16 (hexadecimal). A suffix may include a trailing
-'b', for instance 'kb' is identical to 'k'. You can specify a base 10 value
+value is assumed to be base 16 (hexadecimal). A suffix may include a trailing 'b',
+for instance 'kb' is identical to 'k'. You can specify a base 10 value
by using 'KiB', 'MiB', 'GiB', etc. This is useful for disk drives where
values are often given in base 10 values. Specifying '30GiB' will get you
30*1000^3 bytes.
\fIupper\fR may contain a suffix as described above. If an option allows two
sets of ranges, they are separated with a `,' or `/' character. For example:
`8\-8k/8M\-4G'.
+.TP
+.I float_list
+List of floating numbers: A list of floating numbers, separated by
+a ':' charcater.
.SS "Parameter List"
.TP
.BI name \fR=\fPstr
Unless \fBnrfiles\fR and \fBfilesize\fR options are given, this amount will be
divided between the available files for the job. If not set, fio will use the
full size of the given files or devices. If the the files do not exist, size
-must be given.
+must be given. It is also possible to give size as a percentage between 1 and
+100. If size=20% is given, fio will use 20% of the full size of the given files
+or devices.
.TP
.BI fill_device \fR=\fPbool "\fR,\fB fill_fs" \fR=\fPbool
Sets size to something really large and waits for ENOSPC (no space left on
not just even splits between them. With this option, you can weight various
block sizes for exact control of the issued IO for a job that has mixed
block sizes. The format of the option is bssplit=blocksize/percentage,
-optionally adding as many definitions as needed seperated by a colon.
+optionally adding as many definitions as needed separated by a colon.
Example: bssplit=4k/10:64k/50:32k/40 would issue 50% 64k blocks, 10% 4k
blocks and 40% 32k blocks. \fBbssplit\fR also supports giving separate
splits to reads and writes. The format is identical to what the
.br
See <http://www.xmailserver.org/guasi\-lib.html>.
.TP
+.B rdma
+The RDMA I/O engine supports both RDMA memory semantics (RDMA_WRITE/RDMA_READ)
+and channel semantics (Send/Recv) for the InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP protocols.
+.TP
.B external
Loads an external I/O engine object file. Append the engine filename as
`:\fIenginepath\fR'.
this parameter is given, a new offset will be chosen without looking at past
I/O history. This parameter is mutually exclusive with \fBverify\fR.
.TP
-.B softrandommap
+.BI softrandommap \fR=\fPbool
See \fBnorandommap\fR. If fio runs with the random block map enabled and it
fails to allocate the map, if this option is set it will continue without a
random block map. As coverage will not be as complete as with random maps, this
use.
.RE
.TP
-.BI iomem_align \fR=\fPint
+.BI iomem_align \fR=\fPint "\fR,\fP mem_align" \fR=\fPint
This indiciates the memory alignment of the IO memory buffers. Note that the
given alignment is applied to the first IO unit buffer, if using \fBiodepth\fR
the alignment of the following buffers are given by the \fBbs\fR used. In
\fBverify_backlog_batch\fR is larger than \fBverify_backlog\fR, some blocks
will be verified more than once.
.TP
-.B stonewall
-Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit before starting this one.
+.B stonewall "\fR,\fP wait_for_previous"
+Wait for preceding jobs in the job file to exit before starting this one.
\fBstonewall\fR implies \fBnew_group\fR.
.TP
.B new_group
calls, this option must be used with disable_slat and disable_bw as well.
.TP
.B disable_clat \fR=\fPbool
-Disable measurements of submission latency numbers. See \fBdisable_lat\fR.
+Disable measurements of completion latency numbers. See \fBdisable_lat\fR.
.TP
.B disable_slat \fR=\fPbool
Disable measurements of submission latency numbers. See \fBdisable_lat\fR.
The system must have a mounted cgroup blkio mount point for this to work. If
your system doesn't have it mounted, you can do so with:
-# mount -t cgroup -o blkio none /cgroup
+# mount \-t cgroup \-o blkio none /cgroup
.TP
.BI cgroup_weight \fR=\fPint
Set the weight of the cgroup to this value. See the documentation that comes
.TP
.BI gid \fR=\fPint
Set group ID, see \fBuid\fR.
+.TP
+.BI clat_percentiles \fR=\fPbool
+Enable the reporting of percentiles of completion latencies.
+.TP
+.BI percentile_list \fR=\fPfloat_list
+Overwrite the default list of percentiles for completion
+latencies. Each number is a floating number in the range (0,100], and
+the maximum length of the list is 20. Use ':' to separate the
+numbers. For example, --percentile_list=99.5:99.9 will cause fio to
+report the values of completion latency below which 99.5% and 99.9% of
+the observed latencies fell, respectively.
.SH OUTPUT
While running, \fBfio\fR will display the status of the created jobs. For
example:
.RE
.RE
.P
-Error Info (dependant on continue_on_error, default off):
+Error Info (dependent on continue_on_error, default off):
.RS
.B total # errors, first error code
.RE
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