Spelling and grammar fixes for the header comment. Also make it clear that users can choose between the RDMA software provided by their Linux distributor and OFED. Update a related paragraph in the man page too. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ren Yufei <renyufei83@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- engines/rdma.c | 13 +++++++------ fio.1 | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/engines/rdma.c b/engines/rdma.c index 61a90b8..fa94865 100644 --- a/engines/rdma.c +++ b/engines/rdma.c @@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ /* - * rdma engine + * RDMA I/O engine * - * RDMA IO engine using OFED library. - * Support both RDMA memory semantic and channel semantic - * in InfiniBand, RoCE and iWarp environment. + * RDMA I/O engine based on the IB verbs and RDMA/CM user space libraries. + * Supports both RDMA memory semantics and channel semantics + * for the InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP protocols. * - * This is currently disabled. To enable it, execute: + * This I/O engine is disabled by default. To enable it, execute: * * $ export EXTFLAGS="-DFIO_HAVE_RDMA" * $ export EXTLIBS="-libverbs -lrdmacm" * - * before running make. You'll need the OFED as well: + * before running make. You will need the Linux RDMA software as well, either + * from your Linux distributor or directly from openfabrics.org: * * http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ * diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1 index 65877d2..21ccda5 100644 --- a/fio.1 +++ b/fio.1 @@ -411,8 +411,8 @@ approach to asycnronous I/O. See <http://www.xmailserver.org/guasi\-lib.html>. .TP .B rdma -The RDMA I/O engine supports both RDMA memory semantic(RDMA_WRITE/RDMA_READ) -and channel semantic(Send/Recv) in InfiniBand, RoCE and iWarp environment. +The RDMA I/O engine supports both RDMA memory semantics (RDMA_WRITE/RDMA_READ) +and channel semantics (Send/Recv) for the InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP protocols. .TP .B external Loads an external I/O engine object file. Append the engine filename as -- 1.7.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
