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30.\" nvmecontrol man page.
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32.\" Author: Jim Harris <jimharris@FreeBSD.org>
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34.\" $FreeBSD$
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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.Nm
62.Ic logpage
63.Aq Fl p Ar page_id
64.Op Fl x
65.Aq device id
66.Aq namespace id
67.Nm
68.Ic firmware
69.Op Fl s Ar slot
70.Op Fl f Ar path_to_firmware
71.Op Fl a
72.Aq device id
73.Sh DESCRIPTION
74NVM Express (NVMe) is a storage protocol standard, for SSDs and other
75high-speed storage devices over PCI Express.
76.Sh EXAMPLES
77.Dl nvmecontrol devlist
78.Pp
79Display a list of NVMe controllers and namespaces along with their device nodes.
80.Pp
81.Dl nvmecontrol identify nvme0
82.Pp
83Display a human-readable summary of the nvme0 IDENTIFY_CONTROLLER data.
84.Pp
85.Dl nvmecontrol identify -x -v nvme0ns1
86.Pp
87Display a hexadecimal dump of the nvme0 IDENTIFY_NAMESPACE data for namespace
881.
89.Pp
90.Dl nvmecontrol perftest -n 32 -o read -s 512 -t 30 nvme0ns1
91.Pp
92Run a performance test on nvme0ns1 using 32 kernel threads for 30 seconds.  Each
93thread will issue a single 512 byte read command.  Results are printed to
94stdout when 30 seconds expires.
95.Pp
96.Dl nvmecontrol reset nvme0
97.Pp
98Perform a controller-level reset of the nvme0 controller.
99.Pp
100.Dl nvmecontrol logpage -p 1 nvme0
101.Pp
102Display a human-readable summary of the nvme0 controller's Error Information Log.
103Log pages defined by the NVMe specification include Error Information Log (ID=1),
104SMART/Health Information Log (ID=2), and Firmware Slot Log (ID=3).
105.Pp
106.Dl nvmecontrol logpage -p 1 -x nvme0
107.Pp
108Display a hexidecimal dump of the nvme0 controller's Error Information Log.
109.Pp
110.Dl nvmecontrol firmware -s 2 -f /tmp/nvme_firmware nvme0
111.Pp
112Download the firmware image contained in "/tmp/nvme_firmware" to slot 2 of the
113nvme0 controller, but do not activate the image.
114.Pp
115.Dl nvmecontrol firmware -s 4 -a nvme0
116.Pp
117Activate the firmware in slot 4 of the nvme0 controller on the next reset.
118.Pp
119.Dl nvmecontrol firmware -s 7 -f /tmp/nvme_firmware -a nvme0
120.Pp
121Download the firmware image contained in "/tmp/nvme_firmware" to slot 7 of the
122nvme0 controller and activate it on the next reset.
123.Sh AUTHORS
124.An -nosplit
125.Nm
126was developed by Intel and originally written by
127.An Jim Harris Aq Mt jimharris@FreeBSD.org .
128.Pp
129This man page was written by
130.An Jim Harris Aq Mt jimharris@FreeBSD.org .
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