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authorColy Li <colyli@fnnas.com>2025-11-13 08:36:25 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2025-11-13 19:18:06 +0300
commit7bf90cd740bf87dd1692cf74d49bb1dc849dcd11 (patch)
tree70a106eb845ec021003be06cb5052a2c17527f50
parent73a004f83cf024e785b74243ba9817a329423379 (diff)
downloadlinux-7bf90cd740bf87dd1692cf74d49bb1dc849dcd11.tar.xz
bcache: remove discard sysfs interface document
This patch removes documents of bcache discard sysfs interface, it drops discard related sections from, - Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-bcache - Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@fnnas.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-bcache7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst13
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-bcache b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-bcache
index 9e4bbc5d51fd..9344a657ca70 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-bcache
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-bcache
@@ -106,13 +106,6 @@ Description:
will be discarded from the cache. Should not be turned off with
writeback caching enabled.
-What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/discard
-Date: November 2010
-Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
-Description:
- For a cache, a boolean allowing discard/TRIM to be turned off
- or back on if the device supports it.
-
What: /sys/block/<disk>/bcache/bucket_size
Date: November 2010
Contact: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
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.