From: Sebastian Kayser <sebastian@skayser.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 21:28:47 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: fio.1: Add ioengines heads up to the iodepth section
X-Git-Tag: fio-1.44.3~4
X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8489dae4360f2b00d89a6e9603c6167314b1974d

fio.1: Add ioengines heads up to the iodepth section

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index b0276c4c..ab147f28 100644
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -379,7 +379,9 @@ Loads an external I/O engine object file.  Append the engine filename as
 .RE
 .TP
 .BI iodepth \fR=\fPint
-Number of I/O units to keep in flight against the file.  Default: 1.
+Number of I/O units to keep in flight against the file. Note that increasing
+iodepth beyond 1 will not affect synchronous ioengines (except for small
+degress when verify_async is in use).  Default: 1.
 .TP
 .BI iodepth_batch \fR=\fPint
 Number of I/Os to submit at once.  Default: \fBiodepth\fR.