[dm-devel] [PATCH 3/7] dm: documentation fix
amulhern at redhat.com
amulhern at redhat.com
Mon Nov 27 15:02:41 UTC 2017
From: mulhern <amulhern at redhat.com>
Delete obsoleted paragraph
The 'mq' policy is no longer the default policy, and the default policy,
'smq', does not store hit counts.
Signed-off-by: mulhern <amulhern at redhat.com>
---
Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
index cdfd0fe..0435244 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
@@ -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
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2.9.5
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