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From: "Georg Schönberger" <gschoenberger-qD/LZSXtZz5FYGZjsVlUvw@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-bcache-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Flushing dirty data after bcache detach
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:48:57 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1057573722.337424.1377074937216.JavaMail.root@thomas-krenn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423285490.335846.1377074174264.JavaMail.root-qD/LZSXtZz5FYGZjsVlUvw@public.gmane.org>

Hi bcache team,

we are currently developing performance test scripts with Fio for bcache.
At the end of a test we want to detach and destroy the cache. Therefore we did:
    echo 1 > /sys/block/$dev/bcache/detach
    echo 1 > /sys/block/$dev/bcache/stop

    echo 1 > /sys/fs/bcache/*/stop
    echo 1 > /sys/fs/bcache/*/unregister

With a simple randwrite test with we had about 2GB dirty data in the cache. After detaching the dirty data flush rate was about 900KB/s from SSD to HDD.
Is there a way to accelerate flushing of dirty data?
What is the correct way to detach/destroy a writeback caching device?

* Kernel:  3.11.0-2-generic #5-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 12 16:09:51 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
* Kernel module info:
filename:       /lib/modules/3.11.0-2-generic/kernel/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.ko
author:         Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
license:        GPL
license:        GPL
author:         Kent Overstreet <koverstreet-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
srcversion:     EE441BF41AAB31C3E44F5D2
depends:        
intree:         Y
vermagic:       3.11.0-2-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 
* iostat while flushing after detach:
Device:            tps    kB_read/s    kB_wrtn/s    kB_read    kB_wrtn
sda               0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
sdc             229.50       912.00         6.00       1824         12
sdb             228.00         0.00       912.00          0       1824
bcache0           0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

Thanks a lot for your help in advance, Georg.
--
: Georg Schönberger
: Research & Development Executive
: Thomas-Krenn.AG | The server-experts
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2013-08-21  8:48   ` Georg Schönberger [this message]
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2013-08-22  6:07       ` Flushing dirty data after bcache detach Kent Overstreet

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