1 ============================ 2 A block layer cache (bcache) 3 ============================ 4 5 Say you've got a big slow raid 6, and an ssd or three. Wouldn't it be 6 nice if you could use them as cache... Hence bcache. 7 8 The bcache wiki can be found at: 9 https://bcache.evilpiepirate.org 10 11 This is the git repository of bcache-tools: 12 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/colyli/bcache-tools.git/ 13 14 The latest bcache kernel code can be found from mainline Linux kernel: 15 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ 16 17 It's designed around the performance characteristics of SSDs - it only allocates 18 in erase block sized buckets, and it uses a hybrid btree/log to track cached 19 extents (which can be anywhere from a single sector to the bucket size). It's 20 designed to avoid random writes at all costs; it fills up an erase block 21 sequentially, then issues a discard before reusing it. 22 23 Both writethrough and writeback caching are supported. Writeback defaults to 24 off, but can be switched on and off arbitrarily at runtime. Bcache goes to 25 great lengths to protect your data - it reliably handles unclean shutdown. (It 26 doesn't even have a notion of a clean shutdown; bcache simply doesn't return 27 writes as completed until they're on stable storage). 28 29 Writeback caching can use most of the cache for buffering writes - writing 30 dirty data to the backing device is always done sequentially, scanning from the 31 start to the end of the index. 32 33 Since random IO is what SSDs excel at, there generally won't be much benefit 34 to caching large sequential IO. Bcache detects sequential IO and skips it; 35 it also keeps a rolling average of the IO sizes per task, and as long as the 36 average is above the cutoff it will skip all IO from that task - instead of 37 caching the first 512k after every seek. Backups and large file copies should 38 thus entirely bypass the cache. 39 40 In the event of a data IO error on the flash it will try to recover by reading 41 from disk or invalidating cache entries. For unrecoverable errors (meta data 42 or dirty data), caching is automatically disabled; if dirty data was present 43 in the cache it first disables writeback caching and waits for all dirty data 44 to be flushed. 45 46 Getting started: 47 You'll need bcache util from the bcache-tools repository. Both the cache device 48 and backing device must be formatted before use:: 49 50 bcache make -B /dev/sdb 51 bcache make -C /dev/sdc 52 53 `bcache make` has the ability to format multiple devices at the same time - if 54 you format your backing devices and cache device at the same time, you won't 55 have to manually attach:: 56 57 bcache make -B /dev/sda /dev/sdb -C /dev/sdc 58 59 If your bcache-tools is not updated to latest version and does not have the 60 unified `bcache` utility, you may use the legacy `make-bcache` utility to format 61 bcache device with same -B and -C parameters. 62 63 bcache-tools now ships udev rules, and bcache devices are known to the kernel 64 immediately. Without udev, you can manually register devices like this:: 65 66 echo /dev/sdb > /sys/fs/bcache/register 67 echo /dev/sdc > /sys/fs/bcache/register 68 69 Registering the backing device makes the bcache device show up in /dev; you can 70 now format it and use it as normal. But the first time using a new bcache 71 device, it'll be running in passthrough mode until you attach it to a cache. 72 If you are thinking about using bcache later, it is recommended to setup all your 73 slow devices as bcache backing devices without a cache, and you can choose to add 74 a caching device later. 75 See 'ATTACHING' section below. 76 77 The devices show up as:: 78 79 /dev/bcache<N> 80 81 As well as (with udev):: 82 83 /dev/bcache/by-uuid/<uuid> 84 /dev/bcache/by-label/<label> 85 86 To get started:: 87 88 mkfs.ext4 /dev/bcache0 89 mount /dev/bcache0 /mnt 90 91 You can control bcache devices through sysfs at /sys/block/bcache<N>/bcache . 92 You can also control them through /sys/fs//bcache/<cset-uuid>/ . 93 94 Cache devices are managed as sets; multiple caches per set isn't supported yet 95 but will allow for mirroring of metadata and dirty data in the future. Your new 96 cache set shows up as /sys/fs/bcache/<UUID> 97 98 Attaching 99 --------- 100 101 After your cache device and backing device are registered, the backing device 102 must be attached to your cache set to enable caching. Attaching a backing 103 device to a cache set is done thusly, with the UUID of the cache set in 104 /sys/fs/bcache:: 105 106 echo <CSET-UUID> > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/attach 107 108 This only has to be done once. The next time you reboot, just reregister all 109 your bcache devices. If a backing device has data in a cache somewhere, the 110 /dev/bcache<N> device won't be created until the cache shows up - particularly 111 important if you have writeback caching turned on. 112 113 If you're booting up and your cache device is gone and never coming back, you 114 can force run the backing device:: 115 116 echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/bcache/running 117 118 (You need to use /sys/block/sdb (or whatever your backing device is called), not 119 /sys/block/bcache0, because bcache0 doesn't exist yet. If you're using a 120 partition, the bcache directory would be at /sys/block/sdb/sdb2/bcache) 121 122 The backing device will still use that cache set if it shows up in the future, 123 but all the cached data will be invalidated. If there was dirty data in the 124 cache, don't expect the filesystem to be recoverable - you will have massive 125 filesystem corruption, though ext4's fsck does work miracles. 126 127 Error Handling 128 -------------- 129 130 Bcache tries to transparently handle IO errors to/from the cache device without 131 affecting normal operation; if it sees too many errors (the threshold is 132 configurable, and defaults to 0) it shuts down the cache device and switches all 133 the backing devices to passthrough mode. 134 135 - For reads from the cache, if they error we just retry the read from the 136 backing device. 137 138 - For writethrough writes, if the write to the cache errors we just switch to 139 invalidating the data at that lba in the cache (i.e. the same thing we do for 140 a write that bypasses the cache) 141 142 - For writeback writes, we currently pass that error back up to the 143 filesystem/userspace. This could be improved - we could retry it as a write 144 that skips the cache so we don't have to error the write. 145 146 - When we detach, we first try to flush any dirty data (if we were running in 147 writeback mode). It currently doesn't do anything intelligent if it fails to 148 read some of the dirty data, though. 149 150 151 Howto/cookbook 152 -------------- 153 154 A) Starting a bcache with a missing caching device 155 156 If registering the backing device doesn't help, it's already there, you just need 157 to force it to run without the cache:: 158 159 host:~# echo /dev/sdb1 > /sys/fs/bcache/register 160 [ 119.844831] bcache: register_bcache() error opening /dev/sdb1: device already registered 161 162 Next, you try to register your caching device if it's present. However 163 if it's absent, or registration fails for some reason, you can still 164 start your bcache without its cache, like so:: 165 166 host:/sys/block/sdb/sdb1/bcache# echo 1 > running 167 168 Note that this may cause data loss if you were running in writeback mode. 169 170 171 B) Bcache does not find its cache:: 172 173 host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8 > attach 174 [ 1933.455082] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Couldn't find uuid for md5 in set 175 [ 1933.478179] bcache: __cached_dev_store() Can't attach 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8 176 [ 1933.478179] : cache set not found 177 178 In this case, the caching device was simply not registered at boot 179 or disappeared and came back, and needs to be (re-)registered:: 180 181 host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo /dev/sdh2 > /sys/fs/bcache/register 182 183 184 C) Corrupt bcache crashes the kernel at device registration time: 185 186 This should never happen. If it does happen, then you have found a bug! 187 Please report it to the bcache development list: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org 188 189 Be sure to provide as much information that you can including kernel dmesg 190 output if available so that we may assist. 191 192 193 D) Recovering data without bcache: 194 195 If bcache is not available in the kernel, a filesystem on the backing 196 device is still available at an 8KiB offset. So either via a loopdev 197 of the backing device created with --offset 8K, or any value defined by 198 --data-offset when you originally formatted bcache with `bcache make`. 199 200 For example:: 201 202 losetup -o 8192 /dev/loop0 /dev/your_bcache_backing_dev 203 204 This should present your unmodified backing device data in /dev/loop0 205 206 If your cache is in writethrough mode, then you can safely discard the 207 cache device without losing data. 208 209 210 E) Wiping a cache device 211 212 :: 213 214 host:~# wipefs -a /dev/sdh2 215 16 bytes were erased at offset 0x1018 (bcache) 216 they were: c6 85 73 f6 4e 1a 45 ca 82 65 f5 7f 48 ba 6d 81 217 218 After you boot back with bcache enabled, you recreate the cache and attach it:: 219 220 host:~# bcache make -C /dev/sdh2 221 UUID: 7be7e175-8f4c-4f99-94b2-9c904d227045 222 Set UUID: 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1 223 version: 0 224 nbuckets: 106874 225 block_size: 1 226 bucket_size: 1024 227 nr_in_set: 1 228 nr_this_dev: 0 229 first_bucket: 1 230 [ 650.511912] bcache: run_cache_set() invalidating existing data 231 [ 650.549228] bcache: register_cache() registered cache device sdh2 232 233 start backing device with missing cache:: 234 235 host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo 1 > running 236 237 attach new cache:: 238 239 host:/sys/block/md5/bcache# echo 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1 > attach 240 [ 865.276616] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Caching md5 as bcache0 on set 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1 241 242 243 F) Remove or replace a caching device:: 244 245 host:/sys/block/sda/sda7/bcache# echo 1 > detach 246 [ 695.872542] bcache: cached_dev_detach_finish() Caching disabled for sda7 247 248 host:~# wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1p4 249 wipefs: error: /dev/nvme0n1p4: probing initialization failed: Device or resource busy 250 Ooops, it's disabled, but not unregistered, so it's still protected 251 252 We need to go and unregister it:: 253 254 host:/sys/fs/bcache/b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128# ls -l cache0 255 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 25 18:33 cache0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:70:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1/nvme0n1p4/bcache/ 256 host:/sys/fs/bcache/b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128# echo 1 > stop 257 kernel: [ 917.041908] bcache: cache_set_free() Cache set b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128 unregistered 258 259 Now we can wipe it:: 260 261 host:~# wipefs -a /dev/nvme0n1p4 262 /dev/nvme0n1p4: 16 bytes were erased at offset 0x00001018 (bcache): c6 85 73 f6 4e 1a 45 ca 82 65 f5 7f 48 ba 6d 81 263 264 265 G) dm-crypt and bcache 266 267 First setup bcache unencrypted and then install dmcrypt on top of 268 /dev/bcache<N> This will work faster than if you dmcrypt both the backing 269 and caching devices and then install bcache on top. [benchmarks?] 270 271 272 H) Stop/free a registered bcache to wipe and/or recreate it 273 274 Suppose that you need to free up all bcache references so that you can 275 fdisk run and re-register a changed partition table, which won't work 276 if there are any active backing or caching devices left on it: 277 278 1) Is it present in /dev/bcache* ? (there are times where it won't be) 279 280 If so, it's easy:: 281 282 host:/sys/block/bcache0/bcache# echo 1 > stop 283 284 2) But if your backing device is gone, this won't work:: 285 286 host:/sys/block/bcache0# cd bcache 287 bash: cd: bcache: No such file or directory 288 289 In this case, you may have to unregister the dmcrypt block device that 290 references this bcache to free it up:: 291 292 host:~# dmsetup remove oldds1 293 bcache: bcache_device_free() bcache0 stopped 294 bcache: cache_set_free() Cache set 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1 unregistered 295 296 This causes the backing bcache to be removed from /sys/fs/bcache and 297 then it can be reused. This would be true of any block device stacking 298 where bcache is a lower device. 299 300 3) In other cases, you can also look in /sys/fs/bcache/:: 301 302 host:/sys/fs/bcache# ls -l */{cache?,bdev?} 303 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 5 09:39 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8/bdev1 -> ../../../devices/virtual/block/dm-1/bcache/ 304 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 5 09:39 0226553a-37cf-41d5-b3ce-8b1e944543a8/cache0 -> ../../../devices/virtual/block/dm-4/bcache/ 305 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 5 09:39 5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1/cache0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/ata10/host9/target9:0:0/9:0:0:0/block/sdl/sdl2/bcache/ 306 307 The device names will show which UUID is relevant, cd in that directory 308 and stop the cache:: 309 310 host:/sys/fs/bcache/5bc072a8-ab17-446d-9744-e247949913c1# echo 1 > stop 311 312 This will free up bcache references and let you reuse the partition for 313 other purposes. 314 315 316 317 Troubleshooting performance 318 --------------------------- 319 320 Bcache has a bunch of config options and tunables. The defaults are intended to 321 be reasonable for typical desktop and server workloads, but they're not what you 322 want for getting the best possible numbers when benchmarking. 323 324 - Backing device alignment 325 326 The default metadata size in bcache is 8k. If your backing device is 327 RAID based, then be sure to align this by a multiple of your stride 328 width using `bcache make --data-offset`. If you intend to expand your 329 disk array in the future, then multiply a series of primes by your 330 raid stripe size to get the disk multiples that you would like. 331 332 For example: If you have a 64k stripe size, then the following offset 333 would provide alignment for many common RAID5 data spindle counts:: 334 335 64k * 2*2*2*3*3*5*7 bytes = 161280k 336 337 That space is wasted, but for only 157.5MB you can grow your RAID 5 338 volume to the following data-spindle counts without re-aligning:: 339 340 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,14,15,18,20,21 ... 341 342 - Bad write performance 343 344 If write performance is not what you expected, you probably wanted to be 345 running in writeback mode, which isn't the default (not due to a lack of 346 maturity, but simply because in writeback mode you'll lose data if something 347 happens to your SSD):: 348 349 # echo writeback > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache_mode 350 351 - Bad performance, or traffic not going to the SSD that you'd expect 352 353 By default, bcache doesn't cache everything. It tries to skip sequential IO - 354 because you really want to be caching the random IO, and if you copy a 10 355 gigabyte file you probably don't want that pushing 10 gigabytes of randomly 356 accessed data out of your cache. 357 358 But if you want to benchmark reads from cache, and you start out with fio 359 writing an 8 gigabyte test file - so you want to disable that:: 360 361 # echo 0 > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/sequential_cutoff 362 363 To set it back to the default (4 mb), do:: 364 365 # echo 4M > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/sequential_cutoff 366 367 - Traffic's still going to the spindle/still getting cache misses 368 369 In the real world, SSDs don't always keep up with disks - particularly with 370 slower SSDs, many disks being cached by one SSD, or mostly sequential IO. So 371 you want to avoid being bottlenecked by the SSD and having it slow everything 372 down. 373 374 To avoid that bcache tracks latency to the cache device, and gradually 375 throttles traffic if the latency exceeds a threshold (it does this by 376 cranking down the sequential bypass). 377 378 You can disable this if you need to by setting the thresholds to 0:: 379 380 # echo 0 > /sys/fs/bcache/<cache set>/congested_read_threshold_us 381 # echo 0 > /sys/fs/bcache/<cache set>/congested_write_threshold_us 382 383 The default is 2000 us (2 milliseconds) for reads, and 20000 for writes. 384 385 - Still getting cache misses, of the same data 386 387 One last issue that sometimes trips people up is actually an old bug, due to 388 the way cache coherency is handled for cache misses. If a btree node is full, 389 a cache miss won't be able to insert a key for the new data and the data 390 won't be written to the cache. 391 392 In practice this isn't an issue because as soon as a write comes along it'll 393 cause the btree node to be split, and you need almost no write traffic for 394 this to not show up enough to be noticeable (especially since bcache's btree 395 nodes are huge and index large regions of the device). But when you're 396 benchmarking, if you're trying to warm the cache by reading a bunch of data 397 and there's no other traffic - that can be a problem. 398 399 Solution: warm the cache by doing writes, or use the testing branch (there's 400 a fix for the issue there). 401 402 403 Sysfs - backing device 404 ---------------------- 405 406 Available at /sys/block/<bdev>/bcache, /sys/block/bcache*/bcache and 407 (if attached) /sys/fs/bcache/<cset-uuid>/bdev* 408 409 attach 410 Echo the UUID of a cache set to this file to enable caching. 411 412 cache_mode 413 Can be one of either writethrough, writeback, writearound or none. 414 415 clear_stats 416 Writing to this file resets the running total stats (not the day/hour/5 minute 417 decaying versions). 418 419 detach 420 Write to this file to detach from a cache set. If there is dirty data in the 421 cache, it will be flushed first. 422 423 dirty_data 424 Amount of dirty data for this backing device in the cache. Continuously 425 updated unlike the cache set's version, but may be slightly off. 426 427 label 428 Name of underlying device. 429 430 readahead 431 Size of readahead that should be performed. Defaults to 0. If set to e.g. 432 1M, it will round cache miss reads up to that size, but without overlapping 433 existing cache entries. 434 435 running 436 1 if bcache is running (i.e. whether the /dev/bcache device exists, whether 437 it's in passthrough mode or caching). 438 439 sequential_cutoff 440 A sequential IO will bypass the cache once it passes this threshold; the 441 most recent 128 IOs are tracked so sequential IO can be detected even when 442 it isn't all done at once. 443 444 sequential_merge 445 If non zero, bcache keeps a list of the last 128 requests submitted to compare 446 against all new requests to determine which new requests are sequential 447 continuations of previous requests for the purpose of determining sequential 448 cutoff. This is necessary if the sequential cutoff value is greater than the 449 maximum acceptable sequential size for any single request. 450 451 state 452 The backing device can be in one of four different states: 453 454 no cache: Has never been attached to a cache set. 455 456 clean: Part of a cache set, and there is no cached dirty data. 457 458 dirty: Part of a cache set, and there is cached dirty data. 459 460 inconsistent: The backing device was forcibly run by the user when there was 461 dirty data cached but the cache set was unavailable; whatever data was on the 462 backing device has likely been corrupted. 463 464 stop 465 Write to this file to shut down the bcache device and close the backing 466 device. 467 468 writeback_delay 469 When dirty data is written to the cache and it previously did not contain 470 any, waits some number of seconds before initiating writeback. Defaults to 471 30. 472 473 writeback_percent 474 If nonzero, bcache tries to keep around this percentage of the cache dirty by 475 throttling background writeback and using a PD controller to smoothly adjust 476 the rate. 477 478 writeback_rate 479 Rate in sectors per second - if writeback_percent is nonzero, background 480 writeback is throttled to this rate. Continuously adjusted by bcache but may 481 also be set by the user. 482 483 writeback_running 484 If off, writeback of dirty data will not take place at all. Dirty data will 485 still be added to the cache until it is mostly full; only meant for 486 benchmarking. Defaults to on. 487 488 Sysfs - backing device stats 489 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 490 491 There are directories with these numbers for a running total, as well as 492 versions that decay over the past day, hour and 5 minutes; they're also 493 aggregated in the cache set directory as well. 494 495 bypassed 496 Amount of IO (both reads and writes) that has bypassed the cache 497 498 cache_hits, cache_misses, cache_hit_ratio 499 Hits and misses are counted per individual IO as bcache sees them; a 500 partial hit is counted as a miss. 501 502 cache_bypass_hits, cache_bypass_misses 503 Hits and misses for IO that is intended to skip the cache are still counted, 504 but broken out here. 505 506 cache_miss_collisions 507 Counts instances where data was going to be inserted into the cache from a 508 cache miss, but raced with a write and data was already present (usually 0 509 since the synchronization for cache misses was rewritten) 510 511 Sysfs - cache set 512 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 513 514 Available at /sys/fs/bcache/<cset-uuid> 515 516 average_key_size 517 Average data per key in the btree. 518 519 bdev<0..n> 520 Symlink to each of the attached backing devices. 521 522 block_size 523 Block size of the cache devices. 524 525 btree_cache_size 526 Amount of memory currently used by the btree cache 527 528 bucket_size 529 Size of buckets 530 531 cache<0..n> 532 Symlink to each of the cache devices comprising this cache set. 533 534 cache_available_percent 535 Percentage of cache device which doesn't contain dirty data, and could 536 potentially be used for writeback. This doesn't mean this space isn't used 537 for clean cached data; the unused statistic (in priority_stats) is typically 538 much lower. 539 540 clear_stats 541 Clears the statistics associated with this cache 542 543 dirty_data 544 Amount of dirty data is in the cache (updated when garbage collection runs). 545 546 flash_vol_create 547 Echoing a size to this file (in human readable units, k/M/G) creates a thinly 548 provisioned volume backed by the cache set. 549 550 io_error_halflife, io_error_limit 551 These determines how many errors we accept before disabling the cache. 552 Each error is decayed by the half life (in # ios). If the decaying count 553 reaches io_error_limit dirty data is written out and the cache is disabled. 554 555 journal_delay_ms 556 Journal writes will delay for up to this many milliseconds, unless a cache 557 flush happens sooner. Defaults to 100. 558 559 root_usage_percent 560 Percentage of the root btree node in use. If this gets too high the node 561 will split, increasing the tree depth. 562 563 stop 564 Write to this file to shut down the cache set - waits until all attached 565 backing devices have been shut down. 566 567 tree_depth 568 Depth of the btree (A single node btree has depth 0). 569 570 unregister 571 Detaches all backing devices and closes the cache devices; if dirty data is 572 present it will disable writeback caching and wait for it to be flushed. 573 574 Sysfs - cache set internal 575 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 576 577 This directory also exposes timings for a number of internal operations, with 578 separate files for average duration, average frequency, last occurrence and max 579 duration: garbage collection, btree read, btree node sorts and btree splits. 580 581 active_journal_entries 582 Number of journal entries that are newer than the index. 583 584 btree_nodes 585 Total nodes in the btree. 586 587 btree_used_percent 588 Average fraction of btree in use. 589 590 bset_tree_stats 591 Statistics about the auxiliary search trees 592 593 btree_cache_max_chain 594 Longest chain in the btree node cache's hash table 595 596 cache_read_races 597 Counts instances where while data was being read from the cache, the bucket 598 was reused and invalidated - i.e. where the pointer was stale after the read 599 completed. When this occurs the data is reread from the backing device. 600 601 trigger_gc 602 Writing to this file forces garbage collection to run. 603 604 Sysfs - Cache device 605 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 606 607 Available at /sys/block/<cdev>/bcache 608 609 block_size 610 Minimum granularity of writes - should match hardware sector size. 611 612 btree_written 613 Sum of all btree writes, in (kilo/mega/giga) bytes 614 615 bucket_size 616 Size of buckets 617 618 cache_replacement_policy 619 One of either lru, fifo or random. 620 621 discard 622 Boolean; if on a discard/TRIM will be issued to each bucket before it is 623 reused. Defaults to off, since SATA TRIM is an unqueued command (and thus 624 slow). 625 626 freelist_percent 627 Size of the freelist as a percentage of nbuckets. Can be written to to 628 increase the number of buckets kept on the freelist, which lets you 629 artificially reduce the size of the cache at runtime. Mostly for testing 630 purposes (i.e. testing how different size caches affect your hit rate), but 631 since buckets are discarded when they move on to the freelist will also make 632 the SSD's garbage collection easier by effectively giving it more reserved 633 space. 634 635 io_errors 636 Number of errors that have occurred, decayed by io_error_halflife. 637 638 metadata_written 639 Sum of all non data writes (btree writes and all other metadata). 640 641 nbuckets 642 Total buckets in this cache 643 644 priority_stats 645 Statistics about how recently data in the cache has been accessed. 646 This can reveal your working set size. Unused is the percentage of 647 the cache that doesn't contain any data. Metadata is bcache's 648 metadata overhead. Average is the average priority of cache buckets. 649 Next is a list of quantiles with the priority threshold of each. 650 651 written 652 Sum of all data that has been written to the cache; comparison with 653 btree_written gives the amount of write inflation in bcache.
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