Add 'stats' option

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index f486276358b4230fdea4693b7662b0d3b3d9a6eb..b59025dc983375408350d6a09ba7afbb59428829 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH fio 1 "December 2016" "User Manual"
+.TH fio 1 "March 2017" "User Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fio \- flexible I/O tester
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -811,10 +811,12 @@ and discarding before overwriting. The trimwrite mode works well for this
 constraint.
 .TP
 .B pmemblk
-Read and write through the NVML libpmemblk interface.
+Read and write using filesystem DAX to a file on a filesystem mounted with
+DAX on a persistent memory device through the NVML libpmemblk library.
 .TP
 .B dev-dax
-Read and write through a DAX device exposed from persistent memory.
+Read and write using device DAX to a persistent memory device
+(e.g., /dev/dax0.0) through the NVML libpmem library.
 .RE
 .P
 .RE
@@ -1412,7 +1414,7 @@ option.  The allowed values are:
 .RS
 .RS
 .TP
-.B md5 crc16 crc32 crc32c crc32c-intel crc64 crc7 sha256 sha512 sha1 xxhash
+.B md5 crc16 crc32 crc32c crc32c-intel crc64 crc7 sha256 sha512 sha1 sha3-224 sha3-256 sha3-384 sha3-512 xxhash
 Store appropriate checksum in the header of each block. crc32c-intel is
 hardware accelerated SSE4.2 driven, falls back to regular crc32c if
 not supported by the system.
@@ -1546,6 +1548,10 @@ Wait for preceding jobs in the job file to exit before starting this one.
 Start a new reporting group.  If not given, all jobs in a file will be part
 of the same reporting group, unless separated by a stonewall.
 .TP
+.BI stats \fR=\fPbool
+By default, fio collects and shows final output results for all jobs that run.
+If this option is set to 0, then fio will ignore it in the final stat output.
+.TP
 .BI numjobs \fR=\fPint
 Number of clones (processes/threads performing the same workload) of this job.
 Default: 1.
@@ -2582,3 +2588,10 @@ See \fBREADME\fR.
 For further documentation see \fBHOWTO\fR and \fBREADME\fR.
 .br
 Sample jobfiles are available in the \fBexamples\fR directory.
+.br
+These are typically located under /usr/share/doc/fio.
+
+\fBHOWTO\fR:  http://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blob_plain;f=HOWTO
+.br
+\fBREADME\fR: http://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blob_plain;f=README
+.br