Re: [PATCH V2 8/9] nullb: emulate cache

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On 14/08/17 23:04, Shaohua Li wrote:
> From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
> 
> Software must flush disk cache to guarantee data safety. To check if
> software correctly does disk cache flush, we must know the behavior of
> disk. But physical disk behavior is uncontrollable. Even software
> doesn't do the flush, the disk probably does the flush. This patch tries
> to emulate a cache in the test disk.
> 
> All write will go to a cache first, when the cache is full, we then
> flush some data to disk storage. A flush request will flush all data of
> the cache to disk storage. A FUA write will write to memory store
> directly and revalidate data in cache. If there is a power failure (by
> writing to power attribute, 'echo 0 > disk_name/power'), we discard all
> data in the cache, but preserve the data in disk storage. Later we can
> power on the disk again as usual (write 1 to 'power' attribute), then we
> can check data integrity and very if software does everything correctly.
> 
> A new attritue 'cache_size' (in MB) is added to configure cache size.

c/attritue/attribute/

Cheers,
Wol



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