Recent changes (master)
Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Oct 2025 06:00:01 -0600
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The following changes since commit 9806424ae0ce388c8dad1687864b02dee3d8e0d2:
REPORTING-BUGS: add note about reports on malicious job files (2025-10-04 16:57:44 -0600)
are available in the Git repository at:
git://git.kernel.dk/fio.git master
for you to fetch changes up to 925a31571d2d28c319a20b70d37513463b7fad30:
Merge branch 'uncached_doc' of https://github.com/Panky-codes/fio (2025-10-05 14:25:54 -0600)
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Jens Axboe (1):
Merge branch 'uncached_doc' of https://github.com/Panky-codes/fio
Pankaj Raghav (1):
doc: add documentation for uncached buffered I/O
HOWTO.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
fio.1 | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
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Diff of recent changes:
diff --git a/HOWTO.rst b/HOWTO.rst
index 3a4e018f..9f55a73b 100644
--- a/HOWTO.rst
+++ b/HOWTO.rst
@@ -2565,6 +2565,19 @@ with the caveat that when used on the command line, they must come after the
For direct I/O, requests will only succeed if cache invalidation isn't required,
file blocks are fully allocated and the disk request could be issued immediately.
+.. option:: uncached=int : [pvsync2] [io_uring]
+
+ This option will perform buffered IO without retaining data in the
+ page cache after the operation completes.
+
+ Reads work like a normal buffered read but pages are evicted immediately
+ after data is copied to userspace. Writes work like buffered writes but
+ a writeback is initiated before the syscall returns. Pages are evicted
+ once the writeback completes.
+
+ This option sets the RWF_UNCACHED flag (supported from the 6.14 Linux kernel) on
+ a per-IO basis.
+
.. option:: atomic=bool : [pvsync2] [libaio] [io_uring]
This option means that writes are issued with torn-write protection, meaning
diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index bee06048..5036b4f9 100644
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -2320,6 +2320,18 @@ cached data. Currently the RWF_NOWAIT flag does not supported for cached write.
For direct I/O, requests will only succeed if cache invalidation isn't required,
file blocks are fully allocated and the disk request could be issued immediately.
.TP
+.BI (pvsync2,io_uring)uncached \fR=\fPint
+This option will perform buffered IO without retaining data in the
+page cache after the operation completes.
+
+Reads work like a normal buffered read but pages are evicted immediately
+after data is copied to userspace. Writes work like buffered writes but
+a writeback is initiated before the syscall returns. Pages are evicted
+once the writeback completes.
+
+This option sets the RWF_UNCACHED flag (supported from the 6.14 Linux kernel) on
+a per-IO basis.
+.TP
.BI (pvsync2,libaio,io_uring)atomic \fR=\fPbool
This option means that writes are issued with torn-write protection, meaning
that for a power fail or kernel crash, all or none of the data from the write