Add cpus_allowed option
cpumask can be cumbersome to use, since it requires you to calculate
a decimal mask to pass to fio. So add a cpus_allowed option that
takes a text list of allowed cpus, ala: cpus_allowed=1,3,8 will set
the affinity mask for CPUS 1, 3, and 8.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
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@@ -472,6 +472,10 @@
sched_setaffinity(2). This may not work on all supported
operating systems or kernel versions.
+cpus_allowed=str Controls the same options as cpumask, but it allows a text
+ setting of the permitted CPUs instead. So to use CPUs 1 and
+ 5, you would specify cpus_allowed=1,5.
+
startdelay=int Start this job the specified number of seconds after fio
has started. Only useful if the job file contains several
jobs, and you want to delay starting some jobs to a certain