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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst index 6fdb495ac466..f71f349553e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst @@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ The latest bcache kernel code can be found from mainline Linux kernel: It's designed around the performance characteristics of SSDs - it only allocates in erase block sized buckets, and it uses a hybrid btree/log to track cached extents (which can be anywhere from a single sector to the bucket size). It's -designed to avoid random writes at all costs; it fills up an erase block -sequentially, then issues a discard before reusing it. +designed to avoid random writes at all costs. Both writethrough and writeback caching are supported. Writeback defaults to off, but can be switched on and off arbitrarily at runtime. Bcache goes to @@ -618,19 +617,11 @@ bucket_size cache_replacement_policy One of either lru, fifo or random. -discard - Boolean; if on a discard/TRIM will be issued to each bucket before it is - reused. Defaults to off, since SATA TRIM is an unqueued command (and thus - slow). - freelist_percent Size of the freelist as a percentage of nbuckets. Can be written to to increase the number of buckets kept on the freelist, which lets you artificially reduce the size of the cache at runtime. Mostly for testing - purposes (i.e. testing how different size caches affect your hit rate), but - since buckets are discarded when they move on to the freelist will also make - the SSD's garbage collection easier by effectively giving it more reserved - space. + purposes (i.e. testing how different size caches affect your hit rate). io_errors Number of errors that have occurred, decayed by io_error_halflife. |