The following changes since commit b9c153b9023c3de65f01aeac4d1e993986a7107e: Merge branch 'cleanup' of https://github.com/sitsofe/fio (2017-11-22 19:58:21 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.dk/fio.git master for you to fetch changes up to 609ac152d5a7d0bc5c645f8c50bf2415e7b2d4d3: docs: Add documention for RDMA ioengine options. (2017-11-23 22:08:48 -0700) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Bates (1): docs: Add documention for RDMA ioengine options. HOWTO | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fio.1 | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- Diff of recent changes: diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO index 4d3a8c8..164ba2b 100644 --- a/HOWTO +++ b/HOWTO @@ -1751,7 +1751,8 @@ I/O engine **rdma** 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. + InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP protocols. This engine defines engine + specific options. **falloc** I/O engine that does regular fallocate to simulate data transfer as @@ -1893,10 +1894,15 @@ with the caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the this will be the starting port number since fio will use a range of ports. -.. option:: hostname=str : [netsplice] [net] + [rdma] + + The port to use for RDMA-CM communication. This should be the same value + on the client and the server side. + +.. option:: hostname=str : [netsplice] [net] [rdma] - The hostname or IP address to use for TCP or UDP based I/O. If the job is - a TCP listener or UDP reader, the hostname is not used and must be omitted + The hostname or IP address to use for TCP, UDP or RDMA-CM based I/O. If the job + is a TCP listener or UDP reader, the hostname is not used and must be omitted unless it is a valid UDP multicast address. .. option:: interface=str : [netsplice] [net] @@ -2002,6 +2008,21 @@ with the caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the The size of the chunk to use for each file. +.. option:: verb=str : [rdma] + + The RDMA verb to use on this side of the RDMA ioengine connection. Valid + values are write, read, send and recv. These correspond to the equivalent + RDMA verbs (e.g. write = rdma_write etc.). Note that this only needs to be + specified on the client side of the connection. See the examples folder. + +.. option:: bindname=str : [rdma] + + The name to use to bind the local RDMA-CM connection to a local RDMA device. + This could be a hostname or an IPv4 or IPv6 address. On the server side this + will be passed into the rdma_bind_addr() function and on the client site it + will be used in the rdma_resolve_add() function. This can be useful when + multiple paths exist between the client and the server or in certain loopback + configurations. I/O depth ~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1 index 3224e9a..a4b0ea6 100644 --- a/fio.1 +++ b/fio.1 @@ -1525,7 +1525,8 @@ for more info on GUASI. .B rdma 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. +InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP protocols. This engine defines engine +specific options. .TP .B falloc I/O engine that does regular fallocate to simulate data transfer as @@ -1654,10 +1655,14 @@ The TCP or UDP port to bind to or connect to. If this is used with this will be the starting port number since fio will use a range of ports. .TP -.BI (netsplice,net)hostname \fR=\fPstr -The hostname or IP address to use for TCP or UDP based I/O. If the job is -a TCP listener or UDP reader, the hostname is not used and must be omitted -unless it is a valid UDP multicast address. +.BI (rdma)port +The port to use for RDMA-CM communication. This should be the same +value on the client and the server side. +.TP +.BI (netsplice,net, rdma)hostname \fR=\fPstr +The hostname or IP address to use for TCP, UDP or RDMA-CM based I/O. +If the job is a TCP listener or UDP reader, the hostname is not used +and must be omitted unless it is a valid UDP multicast address. .TP .BI (netsplice,net)interface \fR=\fPstr The IP address of the network interface used to send or receive UDP @@ -1757,6 +1762,21 @@ libhdfs will create chunk in this HDFS directory. .TP .BI (libhdfs)chunk_size The size of the chunk to use for each file. +.TP +.BI (rdma)verb \fR=\fPstr +The RDMA verb to use on this side of the RDMA ioengine +connection. Valid values are write, read, send and recv. These +correspond to the equivalent RDMA verbs (e.g. write = rdma_write +etc.). Note that this only needs to be specified on the client side of +the connection. See the examples folder. +.TP +.BI (rdma)bindname \fR=\fPstr +The name to use to bind the local RDMA-CM connection to a local RDMA +device. This could be a hostname or an IPv4 or IPv6 address. On the +server side this will be passed into the rdma_bind_addr() function and +on the client site it will be used in the rdma_resolve_add() +function. This can be useful when multiple paths exist between the +client and the server or in certain loopback configurations. .SS "I/O depth" .TP .BI iodepth \fR=\fPint -- 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
