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Commit 038ba8cc authored by Coly Li's avatar Coly Li Committed by Jens Axboe
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bcache: add readahead cache policy options via sysfs interface



In year 2007 high performance SSD was still expensive, in order to
save more space for real workload or meta data, the readahead I/Os
for non-meta data was bypassed and not cached on SSD.

In now days, SSD price drops a lot and people can find larger size
SSD with more comfortable price. It is unncessary to alway bypass
normal readahead I/Os to save SSD space for now.

This patch adds options for readahead data cache policies via sysfs
file /sys/block/bcache<N>/readahead_cache_policy, the options are,
- "all": cache all readahead data I/Os.
- "meta-only": only cache meta data, and bypass other regular I/Os.

If users want to make bcache continue to only cache readahead request
for metadata and bypass regular data readahead, please set "meta-only"
to this sysfs file. By default, bcache will back to cache all read-
ahead requests now.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarColy Li <colyli@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Wheeler <bcache@linux.ewheeler.net>
Cc: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 7c02b005
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