Joe Thornber 65790ff919 dm cache: add cache block invalidation support ...

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>

2013-11-11 11:37:51 -05:00

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