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From: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
To: fio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] pmemblk, dev-dax: Update descriptions
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:21:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170110212127.64926-2-elliott@hpe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170110212127.64926-1-elliott@hpe.com>

From: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>

Make the descriptions of the pmemblk and dev-dax ioengines
more symmetric.
---
 HOWTO | 10 ++++++----
 fio.1 |  6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 4354e46..9e1ffa6 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -903,11 +903,13 @@ ioengine=str	Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
 				overwriting. The writetrim mode works well
 				for this constraint.
 
-			pmemblk	Read and write through the NVML libpmemblk
-				interface.
+			pmemblk	Read and write using filesystem DAX to a file
+				on a filesystem mounted with DAX on a persistent
+				memory device through the NVML libpmemblk library.
 
-			dev-dax Read and write through a DAX device exposed
-				from persistent memory.
+			dev-dax Read and write using device DAX to a persistent
+				memory device (e.g., /dev/dax0.0) through the
+				NVML libpmem library.
 
 			external Prefix to specify loading an external
 				IO engine object file. Append the engine
diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index f486276..56f2d11 100644
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -811,10 +811,12 @@ and discarding before overwriting. The trimwrite mode works well for this
 constraint.
 .TP
 .B pmemblk
-Read and write through the NVML libpmemblk interface.
+Read and write using filesystem DAX to a file on a filesystem mounted with
+DAX on a persistent memory device through the NVML libpmemblk library.
 .TP
 .B dev-dax
-Read and write through a DAX device exposed from persistent memory.
+Read and write using device DAX to a persistent memory device
+(e.g., /dev/dax0.0) through the NVML libpmem library.
 .RE
 .P
 .RE
-- 
2.9.3


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-04  6:54 pmemblk and dev-dax cleanups Robert Elliott
2017-01-04  6:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] pmemblk, dev-dax: load libpmem and libpmemblk at startup Robert Elliott
2017-01-04 23:48   ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2017-01-04  6:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] pmemblk, dev-dax: Update descriptions Robert Elliott
2017-01-04  6:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] pmemblk,dev-dax: clean up error logs Robert Elliott
2017-01-04  6:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] pmemblk: Clarify fsize is in MiB not MB Robert Elliott
2017-01-05 18:47 ` pmemblk and dev-dax cleanups Jens Axboe
2017-01-10 21:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] pmemblk, dev-dax: load libpmem and libpmemblk at startup Robert Elliott
2017-01-10 21:21   ` Robert Elliott [this message]
2017-01-10 21:21   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] pmemblk, dev-dax: clean up error logs Robert Elliott
2017-01-10 21:21   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] pmemblk: Clarify fsize is in MiB not MB Robert Elliott
2017-01-12  4:00   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] pmemblk, dev-dax: load libpmem and libpmemblk at startup Jens Axboe

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