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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2013-07-04 23:11:22 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2013-07-04 23:11:22 +0200
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Merge branch 'timers/posix-cpu-timers-for-tglx' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/core Frederic sayed: "Most of these patches have been hanging around for several month now, in -mmotm for a significant chunk. They already missed a few releases." Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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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