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This patch introduces dm-pcache, a new DM target that places a DAX-
capable persistent-memory device in front of any slower block device and
uses it as a high-throughput, low-latency cache.
Design highlights
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- DAX data path – data is copied directly between DRAM and the pmem
mapping, bypassing the block layer’s overhead.
- Segmented, crash-consistent layout
- all layout metadata are dual-replicated CRC-protected.
- atomic kset flushes; key replay on mount guarantees cache integrity
even after power loss.
- Striped multi-tree index
- Multi‑tree indexing for high parallelism.
- overlap-resolution logic ensures non-intersecting cached extents.
- Background services
- write-back worker flushes dirty keys in order, preserving backing-device
crash consistency. This is important for checkpoint in cloud storage.
- garbage collector reclaims clean segments when utilisation exceeds a
tunable threshold.
- Data integrity – optional CRC32 on cached payload; metadata always protected.
Comparison with existing block-level caches
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| Feature | pcache (this patch) | bcache | dm-writecache |
|----------------------------------|---------------------------------|------------------------------|---------------------------|
| pmem access method | DAX | bio (block I/O) | DAX |
| Write latency (4 K rand-write) | ~5 µs | ~20 µs | ~5 µs |
| Concurrency | multi subtree index | global index tree | single tree + wc_lock |
| IOPS (4K randwrite, 32 numjobs) | 2.1 M | 352 K | 283 K |
| Read-cache support | YES | YES | NO |
| Deployment | no re-format of backend | backend devices must be | no re-format of backend |
| | | reformatted | |
| Write-back ordering | log-structured; | no ordering guarantee | no ordering guarantee |
| | preserves app-IO-order | | |
| Data integrity checks | metadata + data CRC(optional) | metadata CRC only | none |
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Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng.yang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
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Device Mapper
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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cache-policies
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cache
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delay
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dm-clone
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dm-crypt
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dm-dust
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dm-ebs
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dm-flakey
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dm-ima
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dm-init
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dm-integrity
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dm-io
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dm-log
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dm-pcache
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dm-queue-length
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dm-raid
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dm-service-time
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dm-uevent
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dm-zoned
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era
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kcopyd
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linear
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log-writes
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persistent-data
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snapshot
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statistics
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striped
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switch
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thin-provisioning
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unstriped
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vdo-design
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vdo
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verity
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writecache
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zero
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.. only:: subproject and html
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Indices
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* :ref:`genindex`
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