Documentation update

Ensure that pvsync2 is mentioned, and kill remnants of the syslet
engine, it is no more (and never made it to Linux mainline).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index cec4e42758aed7e4783e03199f20afe55fa9e49c..1d4e46c7ec95ed4990b591a2d4dc7f9c968e72b0 100644 (file)
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ bottom, it contains the following basic parameters:
 
        IO engine       How do we issue io? We could be memory mapping the
                        file, we could be using regular read/write, we
-                       could be using splice, async io, syslet, or even
-                       SG (SCSI generic sg).
+                       could be using splice, async io, or even SG
+                       (SCSI generic sg).
 
        IO depth        If the io engine is async, how large a queuing
                        depth do we want to maintain?
@@ -706,7 +706,9 @@ ioengine=str        Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
 
                        vsync   Basic readv(2) or writev(2) IO.
 
-                       psyncv  Basic preadv(2) or pwritev(2) IO.
+                       pvsync  Basic preadv(2) or pwritev(2) IO.
+
+                       psync2  Basic preadv2(2) or pwritev2(2) IO.
 
                        libaio  Linux native asynchronous io. Note that Linux
                                may only support queued behaviour with
@@ -726,9 +728,6 @@ ioengine=str        Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
                                vmsplice(2) to transfer data from user
                                space to the kernel.
 
-                       syslet-rw Use the syslet system calls to make
-                               regular read/write async.
-
                        sg      SCSI generic sg v3 io. May either be
                                synchronous using the SG_IO ioctl, or if
                                the target is an sg character device

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index f521c9dbcf156dff4caef4366965b175e6345f80..7f053d48de3dd8e8ee218baf8888bac0c36fc164 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -633,9 +633,6 @@ File is memory mapped with \fBmmap\fR\|(2) and data copied using
 \fBsplice\fR\|(2) is used to transfer the data and \fBvmsplice\fR\|(2) to
 transfer data from user-space to the kernel.
 .TP
-.B syslet-rw
-Use the syslet system calls to make regular read/write asynchronous.
-.TP
 .B sg
 SCSI generic sg v3 I/O. May be either synchronous using the SG_IO ioctl, or if
 the target is an sg character device, we use \fBread\fR\|(2) and