Add option to ignore thinktime for rated IO

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 54d1b0f3b55a65feda8cce23f4fb533cb885aa96..80abc14fcf9a95318c767c2d67a299c93d424348 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -1955,6 +1955,12 @@ I/Os that gets adjusted based on I/O completion rates. If this is set to
 flow, known as the Poisson process
 (\fIhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_point_process\fR). The lambda will be
 10^6 / IOPS for the given workload.
 flow, known as the Poisson process
 (\fIhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_point_process\fR). The lambda will be
 10^6 / IOPS for the given workload.

+.TP
+.BI rate_ignore_thinktime \fR=\fPbool
+By default, fio will attempt to catch up to the specified rate setting, if any
+kind of thinktime setting was used. If this option is set, then fio will
+ignore the thinktime and continue doing IO at the specified rate, instead of
+entering a catch-up mode after thinktime is done.

 .SS "I/O latency"
 .TP
 .BI latency_target \fR=\fPtime
 .SS "I/O latency"
 .TP
 .BI latency_target \fR=\fPtime