dm cache policy mq: simplify ability to promote sequential IO to the cache
Before, if the user wanted sequential IO to be promoted to the cache they'd have to set sequential_threshold to some nebulous large value. Now, the user may easily disable sequential IO detection (and sequential IO's implicit bypass of the cache) by setting sequential_threshold to 0. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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@@ -47,16 +47,22 @@ Message and constructor argument pairs are:
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'discard_promote_adjustment <value>'
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The sequential threshold indicates the number of contiguous I/Os
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required before a stream is treated as sequential. The random threshold
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required before a stream is treated as sequential. Once a stream is
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considered sequential it will bypass the cache. The random threshold
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is the number of intervening non-contiguous I/Os that must be seen
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before the stream is treated as random again.
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The sequential and random thresholds default to 512 and 4 respectively.
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Large, sequential ios are probably better left on the origin device
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since spindles tend to have good bandwidth. The io_tracker counts
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contiguous I/Os to try to spot when the io is in one of these sequential
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modes.
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Large, sequential I/Os are probably better left on the origin device
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since spindles tend to have good sequential I/O bandwidth. The
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io_tracker counts contiguous I/Os to try to spot when the I/O is in one
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of these sequential modes. But there are use-cases for wanting to
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promote sequential blocks to the cache (e.g. fast application startup).
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If sequential threshold is set to 0 the sequential I/O detection is
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disabled and sequential I/O will no longer implicitly bypass the cache.
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Setting the random threshold to 0 does _not_ disable the random I/O
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stream detection.
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Internally the mq policy determines a promotion threshold. If the hit
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count of a block not in the cache goes above this threshold it gets
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