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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:46:14 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Subject: Re: A probable minor mistake in HOWTO page
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To: Mansour Shafaei Moghaddam <mansoor.shafaei@gmail.com>, fio@vger.kernel.org
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On 04/07/2015 11:23 AM, Mansour Shafaei Moghaddam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a minor mistake in the Fio's HOWTO page. According to this
> document the "wait" command considers the offset as the number of
> milliseconds which it must hold on before submitting the next I/O. A
> very simple experiment with a short trace including those "wait"
> commands shows that the numbers that you put as offset are interpreted
> as the time for submission of next I/O not the amount of wait time
> between them. In other words, the value in offset field is the
> absolute delay from the beginning of run not the relative delay.
>
> P.S.: The version of fio I have been working on is 2.1.11, but I saw
> the same explanation in more recent versions' HOWTO page as well. So,
> decided to share it with you.

Thanks, updated. It is indeed a relative time.

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Jens Axboe