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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2013-06-20 05:19:09 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2013-06-20 05:19:09 -0300
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Merge branch 'linus' into patchwork
* linus: (1465 commits) ARM: tegra30: clocks: Fix pciex clock registration lseek(fd, n, SEEK_END) does *not* go to eof - n Linux 3.10-rc6 smp.h: Use local_irq_{save,restore}() in !SMP version of on_each_cpu(). powerpc: Fix missing/delayed calls to irq_work powerpc: Fix emulation of illegal instructions on PowerNV platform powerpc: Fix stack overflow crash in resume_kernel when ftracing snd_pcm_link(): fix a leak... use can_lookup() instead of direct checks of ->i_op->lookup move exit_task_namespaces() outside of exit_notify() fput: task_work_add() can fail if the caller has passed exit_task_work() xfs: don't shutdown log recovery on validation errors xfs: ensure btree root split sets blkno correctly xfs: fix implicit padding in directory and attr CRC formats xfs: don't emit v5 superblock warnings on write mei: me: clear interrupts on the resume path mei: nfc: fix nfc device freeing mei: init: Flush scheduled work before resetting the device sctp: fully initialize sctp_outq in sctp_outq_init netiucv: Hold rtnl between name allocation and device registration. ...
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@@ -319,7 +319,10 @@ cache<0..n>
Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set.
cache_available_percent
- Percentage of cache device free.
+ Percentage of cache device which doesn't contain dirty data, and could
+ potentially be used for writeback. This doesn't mean this space isn't used
+ for clean cached data; the unused statistic (in priority_stats) is typically
+ much lower.
clear_stats
Clears the statistics associated with this cache
@@ -423,8 +426,11 @@ nbuckets
Total buckets in this cache
priority_stats
- Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed. This can
- reveal your working set size.
+ Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed.
+ This can reveal your working set size. Unused is the percentage of
+ the cache that doesn't contain any data. Metadata is bcache's
+ metadata overhead. Average is the average priority of cache buckets.
+ Next is a list of quantiles with the priority threshold of each.
written
Sum of all data that has been written to the cache; comparison with
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