Hi Slava,

I think using the same units for read and write would be an improvement, and 
I'd prefer bytes over sectors.

Thanks!
 Arne

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Arne Wiebalck
CERN IT

On Jun 25, 2014, at 7:38 PM, Slava Pestov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Arne,
> 
> I looked at the latest code and the problem does not happen in our
> development branch. For release kernels, a better fix might be to
> actually change sysfs.c to read and write writeback_rate in units of
> bytes. This way it is simpler to document. What do you think?
> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Arne Wiebalck <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From: Arne Wiebalck <[email protected]>
>> 
>> The writeback_rate is displayed in bytes per sec, but needs to
>> be set in sectors per sec. This patch amends the documentation
>> accordingly.
>> ---
>> Documentation/bcache.txt | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/Documentation/bcache.txt b/Documentation/bcache.txt
>> index 32b6c31..5643751 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/bcache.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/bcache.txt
>> @@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ writeback_percent
>>   the rate.
>> 
>> writeback_rate
>> -  Rate in sectors per second - if writeback_percent is nonzero, background
>> +  Rate in bytes per second - if writeback_percent is nonzero, background
>>   writeback is throttled to this rate. Continuously adjusted by bcache but 
>> may
>> -  also be set by the user.
>> +  also be set by the user (in sectors per second).
>> 
>> writeback_running
>>   If off, writeback of dirty data will not take place at all. Dirty data will
>> --
>> 1.8.3.2.634.g7a3187e
>> 
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