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| author | Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> | 2013-12-09 12:53:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> | 2014-01-07 10:14:33 -0500 |
| commit | 78e03d69733c48312ae81fe4ac0790dbea412b9d (patch) | |
| tree | 47ffaceb2c4c977ab639810d6812a356f364def4 /Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt | |
| parent | b815805154cc62debbc423a6c27ae39290b300ae (diff) | |
| download | lwn-78e03d69733c48312ae81fe4ac0790dbea412b9d.tar.gz lwn-78e03d69733c48312ae81fe4ac0790dbea412b9d.zip | |
dm cache policy mq: introduce three promotion threshold tunables
Internally the mq policy maintains a promotion threshold variable. If
the hit count of a block not in the cache goes above this threshold it
gets promoted to the cache.
This patch introduces three new tunables that allow you to tweak the
promotion threshold by adding a small value. These adjustments depend
on the io type:
read_promote_adjustment: READ io, default 4
write_promote_adjustment: WRITE io, default 8
discard_promote_adjustment: READ/WRITE io to a discarded block, default 1
If you're trying to quickly warm a new cache device you may wish to
reduce these to encourage promotion. Remember to switch them back to
their defaults after the cache fills though.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt index df52a849957f..66c2774c0c64 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt @@ -40,8 +40,11 @@ on hit count on entry. The policy aims to take different cache miss costs into account and to adjust to varying load patterns automatically. Message and constructor argument pairs are: - 'sequential_threshold <#nr_sequential_ios>' and - 'random_threshold <#nr_random_ios>'. + 'sequential_threshold <#nr_sequential_ios>' + 'random_threshold <#nr_random_ios>' + 'read_promote_adjustment <value>' + 'write_promote_adjustment <value>' + 'discard_promote_adjustment <value>' The sequential threshold indicates the number of contiguous I/Os required before a stream is treated as sequential. The random threshold @@ -55,6 +58,15 @@ since spindles tend to have good bandwidth. The io_tracker counts contiguous I/Os to try to spot when the io is in one of these sequential modes. +Internally the mq policy maintains a promotion threshold variable. If +the hit count of a block not in the cache goes above this threshold it +gets promoted to the cache. The read, write and discard promote adjustment +tunables allow you to tweak the promotion threshold by adding a small +value based on the io type. They default to 4, 8 and 1 respectively. +If you're trying to quickly warm a new cache device you may wish to +reduce these to encourage promotion. Remember to switch them back to +their defaults after the cache fills though. + cleaner ------- |