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1 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/unregister
2 Date:           November 2010
3 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
4 Description:
5                 A write to this file causes the backing device or cache to be
6                 unregistered. If a backing device had dirty data in the cache,
7                 writeback mode is automatically disabled and all dirty data is
8                 flushed before the device is unregistered. Caches unregister
9                 all associated backing devices before unregistering themselves.
10
11 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/clear_stats
12 Date:           November 2010
13 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
14 Description:
15                 Writing to this file resets all the statistics for the device.
16
17 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache
18 Date:           November 2010
19 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
20 Description:
21                 For a backing device that has cache, a symlink to
22                 the bcache/ dir of that cache.
23
24 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache_hits
25 Date:           November 2010
26 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
27 Description:
28                 For backing devices: integer number of full cache hits,
29                 counted per bio. A partial cache hit counts as a miss.
30
31 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache_misses
32 Date:           November 2010
33 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
34 Description:
35                 For backing devices: integer number of cache misses.
36
37 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/cache_hit_ratio
38 Date:           November 2010
39 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
40 Description:
41                 For backing devices: cache hits as a percentage.
42
43 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/sequential_cutoff
44 Date:           November 2010
45 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
46 Description:
47                 For backing devices: Threshold past which sequential IO will
48                 skip the cache. Read and written as bytes in human readable
49                 units (i.e. echo 10M > sequntial_cutoff).
50
51 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/bypassed
52 Date:           November 2010
53 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
54 Description:
55                 Sum of all reads and writes that have bypassed the cache (due
56                 to the sequential cutoff).  Expressed as bytes in human
57                 readable units.
58
59 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback
60 Date:           November 2010
61 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
62 Description:
63                 For backing devices: When on, writeback caching is enabled and
64                 writes will be buffered in the cache. When off, caching is in
65                 writethrough mode; reads and writes will be added to the
66                 cache but no write buffering will take place.
67
68 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback_running
69 Date:           November 2010
70 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
71 Description:
72                 For backing devices: when off, dirty data will not be written
73                 from the cache to the backing device. The cache will still be
74                 used to buffer writes until it is mostly full, at which point
75                 writes transparently revert to writethrough mode. Intended only
76                 for benchmarking/testing.
77
78 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback_delay
79 Date:           November 2010
80 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
81 Description:
82                 For backing devices: In writeback mode, when dirty data is
83                 written to the cache and the cache held no dirty data for that
84                 backing device, writeback from cache to backing device starts
85                 after this delay, expressed as an integer number of seconds.
86
87 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/writeback_percent
88 Date:           November 2010
89 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
90 Description:
91                 For backing devices: If nonzero, writeback from cache to
92                 backing device only takes place when more than this percentage
93                 of the cache is used, allowing more write coalescing to take
94                 place and reducing total number of writes sent to the backing
95                 device. Integer between 0 and 40.
96
97 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/synchronous
98 Date:           November 2010
99 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
100 Description:
101                 For a cache, a boolean that allows synchronous mode to be
102                 switched on and off. In synchronous mode all writes are ordered
103                 such that the cache can reliably recover from unclean shutdown;
104                 if disabled bcache will not generally wait for writes to
105                 complete but if the cache is not shut down cleanly all data
106                 will be discarded from the cache. Should not be turned off with
107                 writeback caching enabled.
108
109 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/discard
110 Date:           November 2010
111 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
112 Description:
113                 For a cache, a boolean allowing discard/TRIM to be turned off
114                 or back on if the device supports it.
115
116 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/bucket_size
117 Date:           November 2010
118 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
119 Description:
120                 For a cache, bucket size in human readable units, as set at
121                 cache creation time; should match the erase block size of the
122                 SSD for optimal performance.
123
124 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/nbuckets
125 Date:           November 2010
126 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
127 Description:
128                 For a cache, the number of usable buckets.
129
130 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/tree_depth
131 Date:           November 2010
132 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
133 Description:
134                 For a cache, height of the btree excluding leaf nodes (i.e. a
135                 one node tree will have a depth of 0).
136
137 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/btree_cache_size
138 Date:           November 2010
139 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
140 Description:
141                 Number of btree buckets/nodes that are currently cached in
142                 memory; cache dynamically grows and shrinks in response to
143                 memory pressure from the rest of the system.
144
145 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/written
146 Date:           November 2010
147 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
148 Description:
149                 For a cache, total amount of data in human readable units
150                 written to the cache, excluding all metadata.
151
152 What:           /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/btree_written
153 Date:           November 2010
154 Contact:        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
155 Description:
156                 For a cache, sum of all btree writes in human readable units.