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Mike Snitzer f1afb36a61 dm cache policy mq: simplify ability to promote sequential IO to the cache
Before, if the user wanted sequential IO to be promoted to the cache
they'd have to set sequential_threshold to some nebulous large value.

Now, the user may easily disable sequential IO detection (and sequential
IO's implicit bypass of the cache) by setting sequential_threshold to 0.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
Joe Thornber b155aa0e5a dm cache policy mq: tweak algorithm that decides when to promote a block
Rather than maintaining a separate promote_threshold variable that we
periodically update we now use the hit count of the oldest clean
block.  Also add a fudge factor to discourage demoting dirty blocks.

With some tests this has a sizeable difference, because the old code
was too eager to demote blocks.  For example, device-mapper-test-suite's
git_extract_cache_quick test goes from taking 190 seconds, to 142
(linear on spindle takes 250).

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-11-10 15:25:29 -05:00
Joe Thornber 78e03d6973 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>
2014-01-07 10:14:33 -05:00
Joe Thornber 01911c19be dm cache policy mq: implement writeback_work() and mq_{set,clear}_dirty()
There are now two multiqueues for in cache blocks.  A clean one and a
dirty one.

writeback_work comes from the dirty one.  Demotions come from the clean
one.

There are two benefits:
- Performance improvement, since demoting a clean block is a noop.
- The cache cleans itself when io load is light.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2013-11-09 18:20:25 -05:00
Heinz Mauelshagen 8735a81347 dm cache: add cleaner policy
A simple cache policy that writes back all data to the origin.

This is used to decommission a dm cache by emptying it.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01 22:45:52 +00:00
Joe Thornber f283635281 dm cache: add mq policy
A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hit
count to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
This is meant to be a general purpose policy.  It prioritises
reads over writes.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01 22:45:51 +00:00