kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/filesystems/caching, branch linux-5.8.y

docs: filesystems: caching/backend-api.txt: convert it to ReST

2020-05-05T15:22:21+00:00

- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document and section titles; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add table markups; - Add it to filesystems/caching/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5d0a61abaa87bfe913b9e2f321e74ef7af0f3dfc.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: caching/cachefiles.txt: convert to ReST

2020-05-05T15:22:21+00:00

- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document title; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add table markups; - Comment out text ToC for html/pdf output; - Add lists markups; - Add it to filesystems/caching/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eec0cfc268e8dca348f760224685100c9c2caba6.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: caching/operations.txt: convert it to ReST

2020-05-05T15:22:20+00:00

- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document and section titles; - Comment out text ToC for html/pdf output; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add it to filesystems/caching/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/97e71cc598a4f61df484ebda3ec06b63530ceb62.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: caching/netfs-api.txt: convert it to ReST

2020-05-05T15:22:20+00:00

- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document and section titles; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Add it to filesystems/caching/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cfe4cb1bf8e1f0093d44c30801ec42e74721e543.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: convert caching/fscache.txt to ReST format

2020-05-05T15:22:20+00:00

- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document and section titles; - Comment out text ToC for html/pdf output; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Add table markups; - Add it to filesystems/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e33ec382a53cf10ffcbd802f6de3f384159cddba.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: convert caching/object.txt to ReST

2020-05-05T15:22:20+00:00

- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document and section titles; - Comment out text ToC for html/pdf output; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Adjust the events list to make them look better for html output; - Add it to filesystems/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/49026a8ea7e714c2e0f003aa26b975b1025476b7.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"

2018-11-20T16:30:43+00:00

Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth: | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more | formal, and "while" is the common word. | | [...] | | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never | uses? dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation. Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while". Cc: David Howells Cc: Liam Girdwood Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Michael Halcrow Cc: Jonathan Corbet Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

fscache: Pass object size in rather than calling back for it

2018-04-06T13:05:14+00:00

Pass the object size in to fscache_acquire_cookie() and fscache_write_page() rather than the netfs providing a callback by which it can be received. This makes it easier to update the size of the object when a new page is written that extends the object. The current object size is also passed by fscache to the check_aux function, obviating the need to store it in the aux data. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Anna Schumaker Tested-by: Steve Dickson

fscache: Attach the index key and aux data to the cookie

2018-04-04T12:41:28+00:00

Attach copies of the index key and auxiliary data to the fscache cookie so that: (1) The callbacks to the netfs for this stuff can be eliminated. This can simplify things in the cache as the information is still available, even after the cache has relinquished the cookie. (2) Simplifies the locking requirements of accessing the information as we don't have to worry about the netfs object going away on us. (3) The cache can do lazy updating of the coherency information on disk. As long as the cache is flushed before reboot/poweroff, there's no need to update the coherency info on disk every time it changes. (4) Cookies can be hashed or put in a tree as the index key is easily available. This allows: (a) Checks for duplicate cookies can be made at the top fscache layer rather than down in the bowels of the cache backend. (b) Caching can be added to a netfs object that has a cookie if the cache is brought online after the netfs object is allocated. A certain amount of space is made in the cookie for inline copies of the data, but if it won't fit there, extra memory will be allocated for it. The downside of this is that live cache operation requires more memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Anna Schumaker Tested-by: Steve Dickson

fscache: remove unused ->now_uncached callback

2017-09-07T00:27:26+00:00

Patch series "Ranged pagevec lookup", v2. In this series I make pagevec_lookup() update the index (to be consistent with pagevec_lookup_tag() and also as a preparation for ranged lookups), provide ranged variant of pagevec_lookup() and use it in places where it makes sense. This not only removes some common code but is also a measurable performance win for some use cases (see patch 4/10) where radix tree is sparse and searching & grabing of a page after the end of the range has measurable overhead. This patch (of 10): The callback doesn't ever get called. Remove it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170726114704.7626-2-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds