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dm cache policy mq: introduce three promotion threshold tunables
authorJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Mon, 9 Dec 2013 12:53:05 +0000 (12:53 +0000)
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:14:33 +0000 (10:14 -0500)
commite509c499d253717f8b45f3a943fa94cbfb1a8af6
tree47ffaceb2c4c977ab639810d6812a356f364def4
parente56abb76e806e04f76c1855cf83ad0591eaf3c81
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>
Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt
drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-mq.c