The following changes since commit 07f78c37833730594778fb5684ac6ec40d0289f8: engines/io_uring: set coop taskrun, single issuer and defer taskrun (2022-10-12 07:19:35 -0600) are available in the Git repository at: git://git.kernel.dk/fio.git master for you to fetch changes up to 8a63e7a32fcb6b7b131c4678ba95b81a9f2f8bca: Merge branch 'readme-update' of https://github.com/nikoandpiko/fio (2022-10-15 09:05:32 -0600) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Axboe (1): Merge branch 'readme-update' of https://github.com/nikoandpiko/fio Nicholas Roma (1): Update to README README.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- Diff of recent changes: diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 79582dea..bcd08ec9 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ GNU make isn't the default, type ``gmake`` instead of ``make``. Configure will print the enabled options. Note that on Linux based platforms, the libaio development packages must be installed to use the libaio -engine. Depending on distro, it is usually called libaio-devel or libaio-dev. +engine. Depending on the distro, it is usually called libaio-devel or libaio-dev. For gfio, gtk 2.18 (or newer), associated glib threads, and cairo are required to be installed. gfio isn't built automatically and can be enabled with a @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ configure. Windows ~~~~~~~ -The minimum versions of Windows for building/runing fio are Windows 7/Windows +The minimum versions of Windows for building/running fio are Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2. On Windows, Cygwin (https://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX from https://wixtoolset.org and run :file:`dobuild.cmd` from the :file:`os/windows` @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ implemented, I'd be happy to take patches for that. An example of that is disk utility statistics and (I think) huge page support, support for that does exist in FreeBSD/Solaris. -Fio uses pthread mutexes for signalling and locking and some platforms do not +Fio uses pthread mutexes for signaling and locking and some platforms do not support process shared pthread mutexes. As a result, on such platforms only threads are supported. This could be fixed with sysv ipc locking or other locking alternatives.
