X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=HOWTO;h=bbf5715ae229f0830d2195308ca2249256fed706;hp=d5fb52cfb0f9f931db588c78d92e81a95480f2ca;hb=613442dc8e6699efac7d10a36c2dae875094d06c;hpb=046ee3021f5a8a951c41f6604341d26e74183df7 diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO index d5fb52cf..bbf5715a 100644 --- a/HOWTO +++ b/HOWTO @@ -219,6 +219,25 @@ filename=str Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name, opendir=str Tell fio to recursively add any file it can find in this directory and down the file system tree. +lockfile=str Fio defaults to not doing any locking 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 result + consistent. This is usual for emulating real workloads that + share files. The lock modes are: + + none No locking. The default. + exclusive Only one thread/process may do IO, + excluding all others. + readwrite Read-write locking on the file. Many + readers may access the file at the + same time, but writes get exclusive + access. + + The option may be post-fixed with a lock batch number. If + set, then each thread/process may do that amount of IOs to + the file before giving up the lock. Since lock acqusition is + expensive, batching the lock/unlocks will speed up IO. + readwrite=str rw=str Type of io pattern. Accepted values are: @@ -262,6 +281,10 @@ filesize=siint Individual file sizes. May be a range, in which case fio and limited to 'size' in total (if that is given). If not given, each created file is the same size. +fill_device=bool Sets size to something really large and waits for ENOSPC (no + space left on device) as the terminating condition. Only makes + sense with sequential write. + blocksize=siint bs=siint The block size used for the io units. Defaults to 4k. Values can be given for both read and writes. If a single siint is @@ -281,6 +304,30 @@ bsrange=irange Instead of giving a single block size, specify a range writes, however a second range can be given after a comma. See bs=. +bssplit=str Sometimes you want even finer grained control of the + block sizes issued, not just an even split between them. + This option allows you to weight various block sizes, + so that you are able to define a specific amount of + block sizes issued. The format for this option is: + + bssplit=blocksize/percentage:blocksize/percentage + + for as many block sizes as needed. So if you want to define + a workload that has 50% 64k blocks, 10% 4k blocks, and + 40% 32k blocks, you would write: + + bssplit=4k/10:64k/50:32k/40 + + Ordering does not matter. If the percentage is left blank, + fio will fill in the remaining values evenly. So a bssplit + option like this one: + + bssplit=4k/50:1k/:32k/ + + would have 50% 4k ios, and 25% 1k and 32k ios. The percentages + always add up to 100, if bssplit is given a range that adds + up to more, it will error out. + blocksize_unaligned bs_unaligned If this option is given, any byte size value within bsrange may be used as a block range. This typically wont work with @@ -316,6 +363,8 @@ ioengine=str Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following psync Basic pread(2) or pwrite(2) io. + vsync Basic readv(2) or writev(2) IO. + libaio Linux native asynchronous io. posixaio glibc posix asynchronous io. @@ -353,7 +402,10 @@ ioengine=str Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following cycles according to the cpuload= and cpucycle= options. Setting cpuload=85 will cause that job to do nothing but burn - 85% of the CPU. + 85% of the CPU. In case of SMP machines, + use numjobs= to get desired CPU + usage, as the cpuload only loads a single + CPU at the desired rate. guasi The GUASI IO engine is the Generic Userspace Asyncronous Syscall Interface approach @@ -374,8 +426,9 @@ iodepth=int This defines how many io units to keep in flight against concurrency. iodepth_batch=int This defines how many pieces of IO to submit at once. - It defaults to the same as iodepth, but can be set lower - if one so desires. + It defaults to 1 which means that we submit each IO + as soon as it is available, but can be raised to submit + bigger batches of IO at the time. iodepth_low=int The low water mark indicating when to start filling the queue again. Defaults to the same as iodepth, meaning @@ -409,10 +462,6 @@ fsync_on_close=bool If true, fio will fsync() a dirty file on close. This differs from end_fsync in that it will happen on every file close, not just at the end of the job. -rwmixcycle=int Value in milliseconds describing how often to switch between - reads and writes for a mixed workload. The default is - 500 msecs. - rwmixread=int How large a percentage of the mix should be reads. rwmixwrite=int How large a percentage of the mix should be writes. If both @@ -429,6 +478,12 @@ norandommap Normally fio will cover every block of the file when doing fio doesn't track potential block rewrites which may alter the calculated checksum for that block. +softrandommap See norandommap. 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 option is + disabled by default. + nice=int Run the job with the given nice value. See man nice(2). prio=int Set the io priority value of this job. Linux limits us to @@ -601,15 +656,6 @@ verify=str If writing to a file, fio can verify the file contents (timestamp, block number etc.). The block number is verified. - pattern Fill the IO buffers with a specific pattern, - that we can use to verify. Depending on the - width of the pattern, fio will fill 1/2/3/4 - bytes of the buffer at the time. The pattern - cannot be larger than a 32-bit quantity. The - given pattern is given as a postfix to this - option, ala: verify=pattern:0x5a. It accepts - both hex and dec values. - null Only pretend to verify. Useful for testing internals with ioengine=null, not for much else. @@ -635,6 +681,14 @@ verify_interval=siint Write the verification header at a finer granularity size of header_interval. blocksize should divide this evenly. +verify_pattern=int If set, fio will fill the io buffers with this + pattern. Fio defaults to filling with totally random + bytes, but sometimes it's interesting to fill with a known + pattern for io verification purposes. Depending on the + width of the pattern, fio will fill 1/2/3/4 bytes of the + buffer at the time. The verify_pattern cannot be larger than + a 32-bit quantity. + verify_fatal=bool Normally fio will keep checking the entire contents before quitting on a block verification failure. If this option is set, fio will exit the job on the first observed