Recent changes (master)

Jens Axboe
2016-01-31T13:00:04Z

The following changes since commit a89c77abb152277ca3731f4766a7f377f0fc99df:

server: send trigger state inline (2016-01-28 13:41:18 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.dk/fio.git master

for you to fetch changes up to 3bb85e8443d626ee71a4126dbe6ebcaf751527f1:

Add a note of what is the default value for random_generator (2016-01-30 22:03:39 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Jens Axboe (1):
Add a note of what is the default value for random_generator

HOWTO | 4 +++-
fio.1 | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

---

Diff of recent changes:

diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 7c24c1b..4a910a1 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -1013,7 +1013,9 @@ random_generator=str Fio supports the following engines for generating
typically good enough. LFSR only works with single
block sizes, not with workloads that use multiple block
sizes. If used with such a workload, fio may read or write
- some blocks multiple times.
+ some blocks multiple times. The default value is tausworthe,
+ unless the required space exceeds 2^32 blocks. If it does,
+ then tausworthe64 is selected automatically.

nice=int Run the job with the given nice value. See man nice(2).

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 7bdfea3..6cc6379 100644
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -920,7 +920,9 @@ guarantees that we never generate the same offset twice, and it's also less
computationally expensive. It's not a true random generator, however, though
for IO purposes it's typically good enough. LFSR only works with single block
sizes, not with workloads that use multiple block sizes. If used with such a
-workload, fio may read or write some blocks multiple times.
+workload, fio may read or write some blocks multiple times. The default
+value is tausworthe, unless the required space exceeds 2^32 blocks. If it does,
+then tausworthe64 is selected automatically.
.TP
.BI nice \fR=\fPint
Run job with given nice value. See \fBnice\fR\|(2).