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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt index ff6639f7253..fc9d2dfb941 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt @@ -244,12 +244,22 @@ The message format is: E.g. dmsetup message my_cache 0 sequential_threshold 1024 + +Invalidation is removing an entry from the cache without writing it +back. Cache blocks can be invalidated via the invalidate_cblocks +message, which takes an arbitrary number of cblock ranges. + + invalidate_cblocks [<cblock>|<cblock begin>-<cblock end>]* + +E.g. + dmsetup message my_cache 0 invalidate_cblocks 2345 3456-4567 5678-6789 + Examples ======== The test suite can be found here: -https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite +https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suite dmsetup create my_cache --table '0 41943040 cache /dev/mapper/metadata \ /dev/mapper/ssd /dev/mapper/origin 512 1 writeback default 0' |