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dm cache: delete obsoleted paragraph in cache.txt
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The 'mq' policy is no longer the default policy, and the default policy,
'smq', does not store hit counts.

Signed-off-by: mulhern <amulhern@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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mulkieran authored and snitm committed Jan 17, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -143,11 +143,6 @@ the policy how big this chunk is, but it should be kept small. Like the
dirty flags this data is lost if there's a crash so a safe fallback
value should always be possible.

For instance, the 'mq' policy, which is currently the default policy,
uses this facility to store the hit count of the cache blocks. If
there's a crash this information will be lost, which means the cache
may be less efficient until those hit counts are regenerated.

Policy hints affect performance, not correctness.

Policy messaging
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