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author | Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> | 2013-11-08 11:39:50 -0500 |
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committer | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> | 2013-11-11 11:37:51 -0500 |
commit | 65790ff919e2e07ccb4457415c11075b245d643b (patch) | |
tree | 9e2e0c667cf0fe62d72c1c37514d2535aa52ba5b /Documentation/device-mapper | |
parent | 532906aa7f9656209f30f08dfadd328fc1bc6912 (diff) |
dm cache: add cache block invalidation support
Cache block invalidation is removing an entry from the cache without
writing it back. Cache blocks can be invalidated via the
'invalidate_cblocks' message, which takes an arbitrary number of cblock
ranges:
invalidate_cblocks [<cblock>|<cblock begin>-<cblock end>]*
E.g.
dmsetup message my_cache 0 invalidate_cblocks 2345 3456-4567 5678-6789
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/device-mapper')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt index ff6639f72536..fc9d2dfb9415 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt | |||
@@ -244,12 +244,22 @@ The message format is: | |||
244 | E.g. | 244 | E.g. |
245 | dmsetup message my_cache 0 sequential_threshold 1024 | 245 | dmsetup message my_cache 0 sequential_threshold 1024 |
246 | 246 | ||
247 | |||
248 | Invalidation is removing an entry from the cache without writing it | ||
249 | back. Cache blocks can be invalidated via the invalidate_cblocks | ||
250 | message, which takes an arbitrary number of cblock ranges. | ||
251 | |||
252 | invalidate_cblocks [<cblock>|<cblock begin>-<cblock end>]* | ||
253 | |||
254 | E.g. | ||
255 | dmsetup message my_cache 0 invalidate_cblocks 2345 3456-4567 5678-6789 | ||
256 | |||
247 | Examples | 257 | Examples |
248 | ======== | 258 | ======== |
249 | 259 | ||
250 | The test suite can be found here: | 260 | The test suite can be found here: |
251 | 261 | ||
252 | https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite | 262 | https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suite |
253 | 263 | ||
254 | dmsetup create my_cache --table '0 41943040 cache /dev/mapper/metadata \ | 264 | dmsetup create my_cache --table '0 41943040 cache /dev/mapper/metadata \ |
255 | /dev/mapper/ssd /dev/mapper/origin 512 1 writeback default 0' | 265 | /dev/mapper/ssd /dev/mapper/origin 512 1 writeback default 0' |