Re: [PATCH 14/17] bcache: back to cache all readahead I/Os

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 1/23/20 5:49 PM, Coly Li wrote:
> On 2020/1/24 2:31 上午, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 1/23/20 10:27 AM, Coly Li wrote:
>>> On 2020/1/24 1:19 上午, Michael Lyle wrote:
>>>> Hi Coly and Jens--
>>>>
>>>> One concern I have with this is that it's going to wear out
>>>> limited-lifetime SSDs a -lot- faster.  Was any thought given to making
>>>> this a tunable instead of just changing the behavior?  Even if we have
>>>> an anecdote or two that it seems to have increased performance for
>>>> some workloads, I don't expect it will have increased performance in
>>>> general and it may even be costly for some workloads (it all comes
>>>> down to what is more useful in the cache-- somewhat-recently readahead
>>>> data, or the data that it is displacing).
>>>
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> Copied. This is good suggestion, I will do it after I back from Lunar
>>> New Year vacation, and submit it with other tested patches in following
>>> v5.6-rc versions.
>>
>> Do you want me to just drop this patch for now from the series?
>>
> Hi Jens,
> 
> OK, please drop this patch from this series. I will re-submit the patch
> with sysfs interface later with other patches.

Sounds good, I queued up the rest for 5.6.

-- 
Jens Axboe