Stats

Although the doc (Documentation/bcache.txt) seems to indicate that
"bypassed" should contain cumulative IO for the stat period, I've
noticed that it does not consistently increase. In fact, it increases
and decreases quite a bit over a short period of time.

root@zapazoid:~# date
Thu Jan 26 13:23:34 EST 2012
root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
5.4M
root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
9.1M
root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
1008k
root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
2.4M
root@zapazoid:~# cat /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/stats_day/bypassed
5.1M
root@zapazoid:~# date
Thu Jan 26 13:24:44 EST 2012


This is while doing an rsync into a cached filesystem, which I would
imagine would entail a significant amount of sequential writes.

Am I just misunderstanding what this is supposed to be telling me?

-davidc