1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2012 Intel Corporation 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer, 10.\" without modification. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce at minimum a disclaimer 12.\" substantially similar to the "NO WARRANTY" disclaimer below 13.\" ("Disclaimer") and any redistribution must be conditioned upon 14.\" including a substantially similar Disclaimer requirement for further 15.\" binary redistribution. 16.\" 17.\" NO WARRANTY 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 19.\" "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 20.\" LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR 21.\" A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT 22.\" HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, 26.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING 27.\" IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 28.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. 29.\" 30.\" nvmecontrol man page. 31.\" 32.\" Author: Jim Harris <jimharris@FreeBSD.org> 33.\" 34.\" $FreeBSD$ 35.\" 36.Dd March 26, 2013 37.Dt NVMECONTROL 8 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm nvmecontrol 41.Nd NVM Express control utility 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Ic devlist 45.Nm 46.Ic identify 47.Op Fl v 48.Op Fl x 49.Aq device id 50.Nm 51.Ic perftest 52.Aq Fl n Ar num_threads 53.Aq Fl o Ar read|write 54.Op Fl p 55.Aq Fl s Ar size_in_bytes 56.Aq Fl t Ar time_in_sec 57.Aq namespace id 58.Nm 59.Ic reset 60.Aq controller id 61.Sh DESCRIPTION 62NVM Express (NVMe) is a storage protocol standard, for SSDs and other 63high-speed storage devices over PCI Express. 64.Sh EXAMPLES 65.Dl nvmecontrol devlist 66.Pp 67Display a list of NVMe controllers and namespaces along with their device nodes. 68.Pp 69.Dl nvmecontrol identify nvme0 70.Pp 71Display a human-readable summary of the nvme0 IDENTIFY_CONTROLLER data. 72.Pp 73.Dl nvmecontrol identify -x -v nvme0ns1 74.Pp 75Display a hexadecimal dump of the nvme0 IDENTIFY_NAMESPACE data for namespace 761. 77.Pp 78.Dl nvmecontrol perftest -n 32 -o read -s 512 -t 30 nvme0ns1 79.Pp 80Run a performance test on nvme0ns1 using 32 kernel threads for 30 seconds. Each 81thread will issue a single 512 byte read command. Results are printed to 82stdout when 30 seconds expires. 83.Pp 84.Dl nvmecontrol reset nvme0 85.Pp 86Perform a controller-level reset of the nvme0 controller. 87.Sh AUTHORS 88.An -nosplit 89.Nm 90was developed by Intel and originally written by 91.An Jim Harris Aq jimharris@FreeBSD.org . 92.Pp 93This man page was written by 94.An Jim Harris Aq jimharris@FreeBSD.org . 95