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authorAarushi Mehta <mehta.aaru20@gmail.com>2020-01-20 14:18:55 +0000
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2020-01-30 20:59:42 +0000
commitcdd267749a3ab787e8b03f1971d1c7c147c8a47c (patch)
tree8bd00f45e91debcbc1904212609355956da68c61 /qemu-img.texi
parent1c5a2aecead5c914d9880c8d9b01ec8d43c8f73e (diff)
qemu-img: adds option to use aio engine for benchmarking
Signed-off-by: Aarushi Mehta <mehta.aaru20@gmail.com> Acked-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-id: 20200120141858.587874-13-stefanha@redhat.com Message-Id: <20200120141858.587874-13-stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi
index b5156d6316..20136fcb94 100644
--- a/qemu-img.texi
+++ b/qemu-img.texi
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Command description:
Amends the image format specific @var{options} for the image file
@var{filename}. Not all file formats support this operation.
-@item bench [-c @var{count}] [-d @var{depth}] [-f @var{fmt}] [--flush-interval=@var{flush_interval}] [-n] [--no-drain] [-o @var{offset}] [--pattern=@var{pattern}] [-q] [-s @var{buffer_size}] [-S @var{step_size}] [-t @var{cache}] [-w] [-U] @var{filename}
+@item bench [-c @var{count}] [-d @var{depth}] [-f @var{fmt}] [--flush-interval=@var{flush_interval}] [-n] [-i @var{aio}] [--no-drain] [-o @var{offset}] [--pattern=@var{pattern}] [-q] [-s @var{buffer_size}] [-S @var{step_size}] [-t @var{cache}] [-w] [-U] @var{filename}
Run a simple sequential I/O benchmark on the specified image. If @code{-w} is
specified, a write test is performed, otherwise a read test is performed.
@@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ If @code{-n} is specified, the native AIO backend is used if possible. On
Linux, this option only works if @code{-t none} or @code{-t directsync} is
specified as well.
+If @code{-i} is specified, aio option can be used to specify different AIO
+backends: @var{threads}, @var{native} or @var{io_uring}.
+
For write tests, by default a buffer filled with zeros is written. This can be
overridden with a pattern byte specified by @var{pattern}.