Add 10 counters for various events (hit, miss, etc) and export them in
the status line (accessed from userspace with "dmsetup status"). Also
add a message "clear_stats" that resets these counters.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Commit 95b88f4d71 ("dm writecache: pause
writeback if cache full and origin being written directly") introduced a
code that pauses cache flushing if we are issuing writes directly to the
origin.
Improve that initial commit by making the timeout code configurable
(via the option "pause_writeback"). Also change the default from 1s to
3s because it performed better.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Add a "metadata_only" parameter that when present: only metadata is
promoted to the cache. This option improves performance for heavier
REQ_META workloads (e.g. device-mapper-test-suite's "git clone and
checkout" benchmark improves from 341s to 312s).
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
The DM support describes lots of aspects related to mapped
disk partitions from the userspace PoV.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Mikulas Patocka