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Currently the cutoff writeback and cutoff writeback sync thresholds are defined by CUTOFF_WRITEBACK (40) and CUTOFF_WRITEBACK_SYNC (70) as static values. Most of time these they work fine, but when people want to do research on bcache writeback mode performance tuning, there is no chance to modify the soft and hard cutoff writeback values. This patch introduces two module parameters bch_cutoff_writeback_sync and bch_cutoff_writeback which permit people to tune the values when loading bcache.ko. If they are not specified by module loading, current values CUTOFF_WRITEBACK_SYNC and CUTOFF_WRITEBACK will be used as default and nothing changes. When people want to tune this two values, - cutoff_writeback can be set in range [1, 70] - cutoff_writeback_sync can be set in range [1, 90] - cutoff_writeback always <= cutoff_writeback_sync The default values are strongly recommended to most of users for most of workloads. Anyway, if people wants to take their own risk to do research on new writeback cutoff tuning for their own workload, now they can make it. Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.