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authorJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2013-06-26 23:08:22 -0700
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2013-06-26 23:08:22 -0700
commita9e94ec3504ead4b87a929bc57f5aa99a6590437 (patch)
treeb6e7aaec0e844dc066e93296a85e5769542ef525 /Documentation/bcache.txt
parent36a279686bc02d340eb213a9f2a0b67e50de64b4 (diff)
parent2884d4230867c8a46cf701214051e923301e7429 (diff)
Merge tag 'fcoe1' into fixes
This patch fixes a critical bug that was introduced in 3.9 related to VLAN tagging FCoE frames.
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@@ -319,7 +319,10 @@ cache<0..n>
Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set.
cache_available_percent
- Percentage of cache device free.
+ Percentage of cache device which doesn't contain dirty data, and could
+ potentially be used for writeback. This doesn't mean this space isn't used
+ for clean cached data; the unused statistic (in priority_stats) is typically
+ much lower.
clear_stats
Clears the statistics associated with this cache
@@ -423,8 +426,11 @@ nbuckets
Total buckets in this cache
priority_stats
- Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed. This can
- reveal your working set size.
+ Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed.
+ This can reveal your working set size. Unused is the percentage of
+ the cache that doesn't contain any data. Metadata is bcache's
+ metadata overhead. Average is the average priority of cache buckets.
+ Next is a list of quantiles with the priority threshold of each.
written
Sum of all data that has been written to the cache; comparison with