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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingStyle | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt | 16 |
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index 58b0bf91783..fa6e25b94a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -680,8 +680,8 @@ ones already enabled by DEBUG. Chapter 14: Allocating memory The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators: -kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API -documentation for further information about them. +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc(). Please refer to +the API documentation for further information about them. The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt index cd45c8ea746..84f0a15fc21 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy - Specify a bandwidth rate on particular device for root group. The format for policy is "<major>:<minor> <byes_per_second>". - echo "8:16 1048576" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.read_bps_device + echo "8:16 1048576" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device Above will put a limit of 1MB/second on reads happening for root group on device having major/minor number 8:16. @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy 1024+0 records out 4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 4.0001 s, 1.0 MB/s - Limits for writes can be put using blkio.write_bps_device file. + Limits for writes can be put using blkio.throttle.write_bps_device file. Hierarchical Cgroups ==================== @@ -286,28 +286,28 @@ Throttling/Upper limit policy files specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is the format. - echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.read_bps_device + echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device - blkio.throttle.write_bps_device - Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is specified in bytes per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is the format. - echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.write_bps_device + echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_bytes_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_bps_device - blkio.throttle.read_iops_device - Specifies upper limit on READ rate from the device. IO rate is specified in IO per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is the format. - echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.read_iops_device + echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.read_iops_device - blkio.throttle.write_iops_device - Specifies upper limit on WRITE rate to the device. IO rate is specified in io per second. Rules are per deivce. Following is the format. - echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.write_iops_device + echo "<major>:<minor> <rate_io_per_second>" > /cgrp/blkio.throttle.write_iops_device Note: If both BW and IOPS rules are specified for a device, then IO is subjectd to both the constraints. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt index a167ab876c3..7cc6bf2871e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt @@ -673,6 +673,22 @@ storage request to complete, or it may attempt to cancel the storage request - in which case the page will not be stored in the cache this time. +BULK INODE PAGE UNCACHE +----------------------- + +A convenience routine is provided to perform an uncache on all the pages +attached to an inode. This assumes that the pages on the inode correspond on a +1:1 basis with the pages in the cache. + + void fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, + struct inode *inode); + +This takes the netfs cookie that the pages were cached with and the inode that +the pages are attached to. This function will wait for pages to finish being +written to the cache and for the cache to finish with the page generally. No +error is returned. + + ========================== INDEX AND DATA FILE UPDATE ========================== |