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authorSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>2018-02-16 23:47:43 +0300
committerSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>2018-02-16 23:47:43 +0300
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Merge airlied/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Backmerge 4.15 and hdcp topic branch Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
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@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Fixed block size
The origin is divided up into blocks of a fixed size. This block size
is configurable when you first create the cache. Typically we've been
using block sizes of 256KB - 1024KB. The block size must be between 64
-(32KB) and 2097152 (1GB) and a multiple of 64 (32KB).
+sectors (32KB) and 2097152 sectors (1GB) and a multiple of 64 sectors (32KB).
Having a fixed block size simplifies the target a lot. But it is
something of a compromise. For instance, a small part of a block may be
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ doing here to avoid migrating during those peak io moments.
For the time being, a message "migration_threshold <#sectors>"
can be used to set the maximum number of sectors being migrated,
-the default being 204800 sectors (or 100MB).
+the default being 2048 sectors (1MB).
Updating on-disk metadata
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@@ -143,11 +143,6 @@ the policy how big this chunk is, but it should be kept small. Like the
dirty flags this data is lost if there's a crash so a safe fallback
value should always be possible.
-For instance, the 'mq' policy, which is currently the default policy,
-uses this facility to store the hit count of the cache blocks. If
-there's a crash this information will be lost, which means the cache
-may be less efficient until those hit counts are regenerated.
-
Policy hints affect performance, not correctness.
Policy messaging