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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2013-07-02 08:31:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2013-07-02 08:31:48 +0200 |
| commit | 5f0e5afa0de4522abb3ea7d1369039b94e740ec5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a5be3db9ecfed8ef2150c6146f6d1e0d658ac8b /Documentation/bcache.txt | |
| parent | d752b2696072ed52fd5afab08b601e2220a3b87e (diff) | |
| parent | 9e895ace5d82df8929b16f58e9f515f6d54ab82d (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v3.10-rc7' into for-3.11/drivers
Linux 3.10-rc7
Pull this in early to avoid doing it with the bcache merge,
since there are a number of changes to bcache between my old
base (3.10-rc1) and the new pull request.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/bcache.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bcache.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bcache.txt b/Documentation/bcache.txt index 77db8809bd96..b3a7e7d384f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/bcache.txt +++ b/Documentation/bcache.txt @@ -319,7 +319,10 @@ cache<0..n> Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set. cache_available_percent - Percentage of cache device free. + Percentage of cache device which doesn't contain dirty data, and could + potentially be used for writeback. This doesn't mean this space isn't used + for clean cached data; the unused statistic (in priority_stats) is typically + much lower. clear_stats Clears the statistics associated with this cache @@ -423,8 +426,11 @@ nbuckets Total buckets in this cache priority_stats - Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed. This can - reveal your working set size. + Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed. + This can reveal your working set size. Unused is the percentage of + the cache that doesn't contain any data. Metadata is bcache's + metadata overhead. Average is the average priority of cache buckets. + Next is a list of quantiles with the priority threshold of each. written Sum of all data that has been written to the cache; comparison with |
