fio: allow milliseconds on all time specifiers

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index aadb5ce2bc84bc2a1f0c761c1e8336d68e506e11..a16d0398b2bc4c59a583dd805cacf6ba40b5aa03 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -121,12 +121,16 @@ String: a sequence of alphanumeric characters.
 SI integer: a whole number, possibly containing a suffix denoting the base unit
 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
-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.
+respectively. 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 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.
+When specifying times the default suffix meaning changes, still denoting the
+base unit of the value, but accepted suffixes are 'D' (days), 'H' (hours), 'M'
+(minutes), 'S' Seconds, 'ms' milli seconds. Time values without a unit specify
+seconds.
+The suffixes are not case sensitive.
 .TP
 .I bool
 Boolean: a true or false value. `0' denotes false, `1' denotes true.