X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=HOWTO;h=d18d59b4b824d498104143ff25553d8769cf8ba3;hp=ca1542d5fdf88b7fa0e6e607ab019a98c5d2d770;hb=f5a568cfb7c2738f80399dc155c964bc26cbb4b3;hpb=38f8c3180719acf17554eb330319326958d32e21 diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO index ca1542d5..d18d59b4 100644 --- a/HOWTO +++ b/HOWTO @@ -757,7 +757,8 @@ ioengine=str Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following 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. + CPU at the desired rate. A job never finishes + unless there is at least one non-cpuio job. guasi The GUASI IO engine is the Generic Userspace Asyncronous Syscall Interface approach @@ -1174,7 +1175,7 @@ cpus_allowed_policy=str Set the policy of how fio distributes the CPUs one cpu per job. If not enough CPUs are given for the jobs listed, then fio will roundrobin the CPUs in the set. -numa_cpu_nodes=str Set this job running on spcified NUMA nodes' CPUs. The +numa_cpu_nodes=str Set this job running on specified NUMA nodes' CPUs. The arguments allow comma delimited list of cpu numbers, A-B ranges, or 'all'. Note, to enable numa options support, fio must be built on a system with libnuma-dev(el) installed. @@ -1605,7 +1606,7 @@ write_lat_log=str Same as write_bw_log, except that this option stores io The actual log names will be foo_slat.x.log, foo_clat.x.log, and foo_lat.x.log, where x is the index of the job (1..N, where N is the number of jobs). This helps fio_generate_plot - fine the logs automatically. If 'per_job_logs' is false, then + find the logs automatically. If 'per_job_logs' is false, then the filename will not include the job index. See 'Log File Formats'. @@ -1839,12 +1840,12 @@ that defines them is selected. [psyncv2] hipri Set RWF_HIPRI on IO, indicating to the kernel that it's of higher priority than normal. -[cpu] cpuload=int Attempt to use the specified percentage of CPU cycles. +[cpuio] cpuload=int Attempt to use the specified percentage of CPU cycles. -[cpu] cpuchunks=int Split the load into cycles of the given time. In +[cpuio] cpuchunks=int Split the load into cycles of the given time. In microseconds. -[cpu] exit_on_io_done=bool Detect when IO threads are done, then exit. +[cpuio] exit_on_io_done=bool Detect when IO threads are done, then exit. [netsplice] hostname=str [net] hostname=str The host name or IP address to use for TCP or UDP based IO.