linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmcache: flush superblock stats when retrieving status info

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Date:	Fri, 10 May 2013 11:10:05 +0100
From:	Joe Thornber <thornber@...hat.com>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dmcache: flush superblock stats when retrieving
 status info

On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:44:38PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> When userspace queries dmcache for stats info, we should ensure that all the
> metadata gets flushed out of memory to disk.  The current code neglects to
> update the disk copy of the hit/miss counters.

Nack, I'm afraid.  The commit is there purely to make sure the free
metadata blocks reported from the status are as high as possible.
[When a transaction is open we have to treat all blocks from the
previous transaction as allocated to allow rollback.]
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