RDMA engine: rewrite header comment block and man page section
Spelling and grammar fixes for the header comment. Also make it clear that
users can choose between the RDMA software provided by their Linux distributor
and OFED. Update a related paragraph in the man page too.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Ren Yufei <renyufei83@yahoo.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
diff --git a/engines/rdma.c b/engines/rdma.c
index 61a90b8..fa94865 100644
--- a/engines/rdma.c
+++ b/engines/rdma.c
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
/*
- * rdma engine
+ * RDMA I/O engine
*
- * RDMA IO engine using OFED library.
- * Support both RDMA memory semantic and channel semantic
- * in InfiniBand, RoCE and iWarp environment.
+ * RDMA I/O engine based on the IB verbs and RDMA/CM user space libraries.
+ * Supports both RDMA memory semantics and channel semantics
+ * for the InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP protocols.
*
- * This is currently disabled. To enable it, execute:
+ * This I/O engine is disabled by default. To enable it, execute:
*
* $ export EXTFLAGS="-DFIO_HAVE_RDMA"
* $ export EXTLIBS="-libverbs -lrdmacm"
*
- * before running make. You'll need the OFED as well:
+ * before running make. You will need the Linux RDMA software as well, either
+ * from your Linux distributor or directly from openfabrics.org:
*
* http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/
*
diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 65877d2..21ccda5 100644
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -411,8 +411,8 @@
See <http://www.xmailserver.org/guasi\-lib.html>.
.TP
.B rdma
-The RDMA I/O engine supports both RDMA memory semantic(RDMA_WRITE/RDMA_READ)
-and channel semantic(Send/Recv) in InfiniBand, RoCE and iWarp environment.
+The RDMA I/O engine supports both RDMA memory semantics (RDMA_WRITE/RDMA_READ)
+and channel semantics (Send/Recv) for the InfiniBand, RoCE and iWARP protocols.
.TP
.B external
Loads an external I/O engine object file. Append the engine filename as