linux/Documentation/filesystems/caching
David Howells 5753c44188 FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
Permit the operations to retrieve data from the cache or to allocate space in
the cache for future writes to be interrupted whilst they're waiting for
permission for the operation to proceed.  Typically this wait occurs whilst the
cache object is being looked up on disk in the background.

If an interruption occurs, and the operation has not yet been given the
go-ahead to run, the operation is dequeued and cancelled, and control returns
to the read operation of the netfs routine with none of the requested pages
having been read or in any way marked as known by the cache.

This means that the initial wait is done interruptibly rather than
uninterruptibly.

In addition, extra stats values are made available to show the number of ops
cancelled and the number of cache space allocations interrupted.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:11:19 +00:00
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backend-api.txt FS-Cache: Add use of /proc and presentation of statistics 2009-04-03 16:42:37 +01:00
cachefiles.txt CacheFiles: Fix the documentation to use the correct credential pointer names 2009-04-24 13:28:30 -07:00
fscache.txt FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase 2009-11-19 18:11:19 +00:00
netfs-api.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
object.txt FS-Cache: Object management state machine 2009-04-03 16:42:38 +01:00
operations.txt FS-Cache: Add and document asynchronous operation handling 2009-04-03 16:42:39 +01:00