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1 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/unregister | ||
2 | Date: November 2010 | ||
3 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
4 | Description: | ||
5 | A write to this file causes the backing device or cache to be | ||
6 | unregistered. If a backing device had dirty data in the cache, | ||
7 | writeback mode is automatically disabled and all dirty data is | ||
8 | flushed before the device is unregistered. Caches unregister | ||
9 | all associated backing devices before unregistering themselves. | ||
10 | |||
11 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/clear_stats | ||
12 | Date: November 2010 | ||
13 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
14 | Description: | ||
15 | Writing to this file resets all the statistics for the device. | ||
16 | |||
17 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache | ||
18 | Date: November 2010 | ||
19 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
20 | Description: | ||
21 | For a backing device that has cache, a symlink to | ||
22 | the bcache/ dir of that cache. | ||
23 | |||
24 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache_hits | ||
25 | Date: November 2010 | ||
26 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
27 | Description: | ||
28 | For backing devices: integer number of full cache hits, | ||
29 | counted per bio. A partial cache hit counts as a miss. | ||
30 | |||
31 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache_misses | ||
32 | Date: November 2010 | ||
33 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
34 | Description: | ||
35 | For backing devices: integer number of cache misses. | ||
36 | |||
37 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache_hit_ratio | ||
38 | Date: November 2010 | ||
39 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
40 | Description: | ||
41 | For backing devices: cache hits as a percentage. | ||
42 | |||
43 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/sequential_cutoff | ||
44 | Date: November 2010 | ||
45 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
46 | Description: | ||
47 | For backing devices: Threshold past which sequential IO will | ||
48 | skip the cache. Read and written as bytes in human readable | ||
49 | units (i.e. echo 10M > sequntial_cutoff). | ||
50 | |||
51 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/bypassed | ||
52 | Date: November 2010 | ||
53 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
54 | Description: | ||
55 | Sum of all reads and writes that have bypassed the cache (due | ||
56 | to the sequential cutoff). Expressed as bytes in human | ||
57 | readable units. | ||
58 | |||
59 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback | ||
60 | Date: November 2010 | ||
61 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
62 | Description: | ||
63 | For backing devices: When on, writeback caching is enabled and | ||
64 | writes will be buffered in the cache. When off, caching is in | ||
65 | writethrough mode; reads and writes will be added to the | ||
66 | cache but no write buffering will take place. | ||
67 | |||
68 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback_running | ||
69 | Date: November 2010 | ||
70 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
71 | Description: | ||
72 | For backing devices: when off, dirty data will not be written | ||
73 | from the cache to the backing device. The cache will still be | ||
74 | used to buffer writes until it is mostly full, at which point | ||
75 | writes transparently revert to writethrough mode. Intended only | ||
76 | for benchmarking/testing. | ||
77 | |||
78 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback_delay | ||
79 | Date: November 2010 | ||
80 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
81 | Description: | ||
82 | For backing devices: In writeback mode, when dirty data is | ||
83 | written to the cache and the cache held no dirty data for that | ||
84 | backing device, writeback from cache to backing device starts | ||
85 | after this delay, expressed as an integer number of seconds. | ||
86 | |||
87 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback_percent | ||
88 | Date: November 2010 | ||
89 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
90 | Description: | ||
91 | For backing devices: If nonzero, writeback from cache to | ||
92 | backing device only takes place when more than this percentage | ||
93 | of the cache is used, allowing more write coalescing to take | ||
94 | place and reducing total number of writes sent to the backing | ||
95 | device. Integer between 0 and 40. | ||
96 | |||
97 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/synchronous | ||
98 | Date: November 2010 | ||
99 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
100 | Description: | ||
101 | For a cache, a boolean that allows synchronous mode to be | ||
102 | switched on and off. In synchronous mode all writes are ordered | ||
103 | such that the cache can reliably recover from unclean shutdown; | ||
104 | if disabled bcache will not generally wait for writes to | ||
105 | complete but if the cache is not shut down cleanly all data | ||
106 | will be discarded from the cache. Should not be turned off with | ||
107 | writeback caching enabled. | ||
108 | |||
109 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/discard | ||
110 | Date: November 2010 | ||
111 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
112 | Description: | ||
113 | For a cache, a boolean allowing discard/TRIM to be turned off | ||
114 | or back on if the device supports it. | ||
115 | |||
116 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/bucket_size | ||
117 | Date: November 2010 | ||
118 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
119 | Description: | ||
120 | For a cache, bucket size in human readable units, as set at | ||
121 | cache creation time; should match the erase block size of the | ||
122 | SSD for optimal performance. | ||
123 | |||
124 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/nbuckets | ||
125 | Date: November 2010 | ||
126 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
127 | Description: | ||
128 | For a cache, the number of usable buckets. | ||
129 | |||
130 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/tree_depth | ||
131 | Date: November 2010 | ||
132 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
133 | Description: | ||
134 | For a cache, height of the btree excluding leaf nodes (i.e. a | ||
135 | one node tree will have a depth of 0). | ||
136 | |||
137 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/btree_cache_size | ||
138 | Date: November 2010 | ||
139 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
140 | Description: | ||
141 | Number of btree buckets/nodes that are currently cached in | ||
142 | memory; cache dynamically grows and shrinks in response to | ||
143 | memory pressure from the rest of the system. | ||
144 | |||
145 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/written | ||
146 | Date: November 2010 | ||
147 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
148 | Description: | ||
149 | For a cache, total amount of data in human readable units | ||
150 | written to the cache, excluding all metadata. | ||
151 | |||
152 | What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/btree_written | ||
153 | Date: November 2010 | ||
154 | Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | ||
155 | Description: | ||
156 | For a cache, sum of all btree writes in human readable units. | ||