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authorPeter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>2017-06-23 16:56:27 +0000
committerPeter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>2017-06-23 16:56:27 +0000
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docs: Add documentation for the ThinLTO cache pruning policy string.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34546 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@306125 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -126,6 +126,38 @@ which currently must be enabled through a linker option.
- lld (as of LLVM r296702):
``-Wl,--thinlto-cache-dir=/path/to/cache``
+Cache Pruning
+-------------
+
+To help keep the size of the cache under control, ThinLTO supports cache
+pruning. Cache pruning is supported with ld64 and ELF lld, but currently only
+ELF lld allows you to control the policy with a policy string. The cache
+policy must be specified with a linker option.
+
+- ELF lld (as of LLVM r298036):
+ ``-Wl,--thinlto-cache-policy,POLICY``
+
+A policy string is a series of key-value pairs separated by ``:`` characters.
+Possible key-value pairs are:
+
+- ``cache_size=X%``: The maximum size for the cache directory is ``X`` percent
+ of the available space on the the disk. Set to 100 to indicate no limit,
+ 50 to indicate that the cache size will not be left over half the available
+ disk space. A value over 100 is invalid. A value of 0 disables the percentage
+ size-based pruning. The default is 75%.
+
+- ``prune_after=Xs``, ``prune_after=Xm``, ``prune_after=Xh``: Sets the
+ expiration time for cache files to ``X`` seconds (or minutes, hours
+ respectively). When a file hasn't been accessed for ``prune_after`` seconds,
+ it is removed from the cache. A value of 0 disables the expiration-based
+ pruning. The default is 1 week.
+
+- ``prune_interval=Xs``, ``prune_interval=Xm``, ``prune_interval=Xh``:
+ Sets the pruning interval to ``X`` seconds (or minutes, hours
+ respectively). This is intended to be used to avoid scanning the directory
+ too often. It does not impact the decision of which files to prune. A
+ value of 0 forces the scan to occur. The default is every 20 minutes.
+
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