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dm cache: add cache block invalidation support

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Cache block invalidation is removing an entry from the cache without
writing it back.  Cache blocks can be invalidated via the
'invalidate_cblocks' message, which takes an arbitrary number of cblock
ranges:
   invalidate_cblocks [<cblock>|<cblock begin>-<cblock end>]*

E.g.
   dmsetup message my_cache 0 invalidate_cblocks 2345 3456-4567 5678-6789

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Joe Thornber
2013-11-08 16:39:50 +00:00
committed by Mike Snitzer
parent 532906aa7f
commit 65790ff919
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@@ -244,12 +244,22 @@ The message format is:
E.g.
dmsetup message my_cache 0 sequential_threshold 1024
Invalidation is removing an entry from the cache without writing it
back. Cache blocks can be invalidated via the invalidate_cblocks
message, which takes an arbitrary number of cblock ranges.
invalidate_cblocks [<cblock>|<cblock begin>-<cblock end>]*
E.g.
dmsetup message my_cache 0 invalidate_cblocks 2345 3456-4567 5678-6789
Examples
========
The test suite can be found here:
https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite
https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suite
dmsetup create my_cache --table '0 41943040 cache /dev/mapper/metadata \
/dev/mapper/ssd /dev/mapper/origin 512 1 writeback default 0'