From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <530D1244.1020907@kernel.dk> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:59:32 -0800 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: iodepth_batch default 1 or iodepth References: <94D0CD8314A33A4D9D801C0FE68B4029548AB248@G9W0745.americas.hpqcorp.net> In-Reply-To: <94D0CD8314A33A4D9D801C0FE68B4029548AB248@G9W0745.americas.hpqcorp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" , "fio@vger.kernel.org" List-ID: On 2014-02-25 12:45, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote: > fio.1 says the default value for iodepth_batch is iodepth, but HOWTO says it > defaults to 1 and options.c defaults to 1. Which is intended? > > The value is not displayed in the fio output anywhere, so it's unclear > what you're getting unless you specify a value. The documentation is wrong (and illogical), it should default to 1 if not given. Which it does. So we should probably just fix up the documentation. -- Jens Axboe