backend: do_verify() cleanup

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 5e4cd4ff2663df1bff00eabcdf7382673cc5a453..85eb0fe981b0d0b89c40e9b714f48f9112778f25 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ will be used if no other format specifier is given.
 .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
@@ -304,6 +309,7 @@ Trim and write mixed workload. Blocks will be trimmed first, then the same
 blocks will be written to.
 .RE
 .P
+Fio defaults to read if the option is not specified.
 For mixed I/O, the default split is 50/50. For certain types of io the result
 may still be skewed a bit, since the speed may be different. It is possible to
 specify a number of IO's to do before getting a new offset, this is done by
@@ -597,6 +603,7 @@ position the I/O location.
 .TP
 .B psync
 Basic \fBpread\fR\|(2) or \fBpwrite\fR\|(2) I/O.
+Default on all supported operating systems except for Windows.
 .TP
 .B vsync
 Basic \fBreadv\fR\|(2) or \fBwritev\fR\|(2) I/O. Will emulate queuing by
@@ -618,7 +625,7 @@ POSIX asynchronous I/O using \fBaio_read\fR\|(3) and \fBaio_write\fR\|(3).
 Solaris native asynchronous I/O.
 .TP
 .B windowsaio
-Windows native asynchronous I/O.
+Windows native asynchronous I/O. Default on Windows.
 .TP
 .B mmap
 File is memory mapped with \fBmmap\fR\|(2) and data copied using
@@ -628,9 +635,6 @@ File is memory mapped with \fBmmap\fR\|(2) and data copied using
 \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
@@ -652,7 +656,8 @@ and send/receive. This ioengine defines engine specific options.
 .TP
 .B cpuio
 Doesn't transfer any data, but burns CPU cycles according to \fBcpuload\fR and
-\fBcpucycles\fR parameters.
+\fBcpuchunks\fR parameters. A job never finishes unless there is at least one
+non-cpuio job.
 .TP
 .B guasi
 The GUASI I/O engine is the Generic Userspace Asynchronous Syscall Interface
@@ -1147,7 +1152,7 @@ Allocation method for I/O unit buffer.  Allowed values are:
 .RS
 .TP
 .B malloc
-Allocate memory with \fBmalloc\fR\|(3).
+Allocate memory with \fBmalloc\fR\|(3). Default memory type.
 .TP
 .B shm
 Use shared memory buffers allocated through \fBshmget\fR\|(2).
@@ -1690,13 +1695,13 @@ Some parameters are only valid when a specific ioengine is in use. These are
 used identically to normal parameters, with the caveat that when used on the
 command line, they must come after the ioengine.
 .TP
-.BI (cpu)cpuload \fR=\fPint
+.BI (cpuio)cpuload \fR=\fPint
 Attempt to use the specified percentage of CPU cycles.
 .TP
-.BI (cpu)cpuchunks \fR=\fPint
+.BI (cpuio)cpuchunks \fR=\fPint
 Split the load into cycles of the given time. In microseconds.
 .TP
-.BI (cpu)exit_on_io_done \fR=\fPbool
+.BI (cpuio)exit_on_io_done \fR=\fPbool
 Detect when IO threads are done, then exit.
 .TP
 .BI (libaio)userspace_reap
@@ -1707,7 +1712,7 @@ from user-space to reap events. The reaping mode is only
 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
@@ -2082,7 +2087,7 @@ This format is not supported in Fio versions => 1.20-rc3.
 .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: