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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2013-05-15 04:36:25 -0400
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2013-05-15 04:36:25 -0400
commitc0a363f5cf21f79d72ab630524c3aa06fc6d066c (patch)
tree6127eba7172ab1117dc18fcdc6b08352c736cafd /Documentation
parent093c959307f2f5af72b24fdc4af7d4d0263f6eea (diff)
parentf59fce847fc8483508b5028c24e2b1e00523dd88 (diff)
Merge branch 'bcache-for-upstream' of git://evilpiepirate.org/~kent/linux-bcache into for-linus
Kent writes: Jens - couple more bcache patches. Bug fixes and a doc update.
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diff --git a/Documentation/bcache.txt b/Documentation/bcache.txt
index 77db8809bd96..b3a7e7d384f6 100644
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@@ -319,7 +319,10 @@ cache<0..n>
319 Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set. 319 Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set.
320 320
321cache_available_percent 321cache_available_percent
322 Percentage of cache device free. 322 Percentage of cache device which doesn't contain dirty data, and could
323 potentially be used for writeback. This doesn't mean this space isn't used
324 for clean cached data; the unused statistic (in priority_stats) is typically
325 much lower.
323 326
324clear_stats 327clear_stats
325 Clears the statistics associated with this cache 328 Clears the statistics associated with this cache
@@ -423,8 +426,11 @@ nbuckets
423 Total buckets in this cache 426 Total buckets in this cache
424 427
425priority_stats 428priority_stats
426 Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed. This can 429 Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed.
427 reveal your working set size. 430 This can reveal your working set size. Unused is the percentage of
431 the cache that doesn't contain any data. Metadata is bcache's
432 metadata overhead. Average is the average priority of cache buckets.
433 Next is a list of quantiles with the priority threshold of each.
428 434
429written 435written
430 Sum of all data that has been written to the cache; comparison with 436 Sum of all data that has been written to the cache; comparison with