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dm cache: make the 'mq' policy an alias for 'smq'

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smq seems to be performing better than the old mq policy in all
situations, as well as using a quarter of the memory.

Make 'mq' an alias for 'smq' when choosing a cache policy.  The tunables
that were present for the old mq are faked, and have no effect.  mq
should be considered deprecated now.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Joe Thornber
2016-02-10 10:18:10 +00:00
committed by Mike Snitzer
parent e233d800a9
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@@ -28,51 +28,16 @@ Overview of supplied cache replacement policies
multiqueue (mq)
---------------
This policy has been deprecated in favor of the smq policy (see below).
This policy is now an alias for smq (see below).
The multiqueue policy has three sets of 16 queues: one set for entries
waiting for the cache and another two for those in the cache (a set for
clean entries and a set for dirty entries).
The following tunables are accepted, but have no effect:
Cache entries in the queues are aged based on logical time. Entry into
the cache is based on variable thresholds and queue selection is based
on hit count on entry. The policy aims to take different cache miss
costs into account and to adjust to varying load patterns automatically.
Message and constructor argument pairs are:
'sequential_threshold <#nr_sequential_ios>'
'random_threshold <#nr_random_ios>'
'read_promote_adjustment <value>'
'write_promote_adjustment <value>'
'discard_promote_adjustment <value>'
The sequential threshold indicates the number of contiguous I/Os
required before a stream is treated as sequential. Once a stream is
considered sequential it will bypass the cache. The random threshold
is the number of intervening non-contiguous I/Os that must be seen
before the stream is treated as random again.
The sequential and random thresholds default to 512 and 4 respectively.
Large, sequential I/Os are probably better left on the origin device
since spindles tend to have good sequential I/O bandwidth. The
io_tracker counts contiguous I/Os to try to spot when the I/O is in one
of these sequential modes. But there are use-cases for wanting to
promote sequential blocks to the cache (e.g. fast application startup).
If sequential threshold is set to 0 the sequential I/O detection is
disabled and sequential I/O will no longer implicitly bypass the cache.
Setting the random threshold to 0 does _not_ disable the random I/O
stream detection.
Internally the mq policy determines a promotion threshold. If the hit
count of a block not in the cache goes above this threshold it gets
promoted to the cache. The read, write and discard promote adjustment
tunables allow you to tweak the promotion threshold by adding a small
value based on the io type. They default to 4, 8 and 1 respectively.
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.
Stochastic multiqueue (smq)
---------------------------