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@@ -539,7 +539,13 @@ verify=str	If writing to a file, fio can verify the file contents
 
 stonewall	Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit, before
 		starting this one. Can be used to insert serialization
-		points in the job file.
+		points in the job file. A stone wall also implies starting
+		a new reporting group.
+
+new_group	Start a new reporting group. If this option isn't given,
+		jobs in a file will be part of the same reporting group
+		unless seperated by a stone wall (or if it's a group
+		by itself, with the numjobs option).
 
 numjobs=int	Create the specified number of clones of this job. May be
 		used to setup a larger number of threads/processes doing
@@ -652,7 +658,7 @@ they denote:
 io=		Number of megabytes io performed
 bw=		Average bandwidth rate
 runt=		The runtime of that thread
-	slat=	Submission latency (avg being the average, dev being the
+	slat=	Submission latency (avg being the average, stdev being the
 		standard deviation). This is the time it took to submit
 		the io. For sync io, the slat is really the completion
 		latency, since queue/complete is one operation there.