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Author SHA1 Message Date
Joe Thornber
1bad9bc4ee dm cache: revert "remove remainder of distinct discard block size"
This reverts commit 64ab346a36 because we
actually do want to allow the discard blocksize to be larger than the
cache blocksize.  Further dm-cache discard changes will make this
possible.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
Heinz Mauelshagen
64ab346a36 dm cache: remove remainder of distinct discard block size
Discard block size not being equal to cache block size causes data
corruption by erroneously avoiding migrations in issue_copy() because
the discard state is being cleared for a group of cache blocks when it
should not.

Completely remove all code that enabled a distinction between the
cache block size and discard block size.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-03-27 16:56:23 -04:00
Joe Thornber
c6b4fcbad0 dm: add cache target
Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a
cache for a slower device such as a disk.

A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data
to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy
modules.  The first general purpose module we have developed, called
"mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch.  Other modules are
under development.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01 22:45:51 +00:00