From e03abc0c963a31cb07dfbc07c7d85d75e0d13cf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Van Hensbergen Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:21:39 -0600 Subject: 9p: implement optional loose read cache While cacheing is generally frowned upon in the 9p world, it has its place -- particularly in situations where the remote file system is exclusive and/or read-only. The vacfs views of venti content addressable store are a real-world instance of such a situation. To facilitate higher performance for these workloads (and eventually use the fscache patches), we have enabled a "loose" cache mode which does not attempt to maintain any form of consistency on the page-cache or dcache. This results in over two orders of magnitude performance improvement for cacheable block reads in the Bonnie benchmark. The more aggressive use of the dcache also seems to improve metadata operational performance. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen --- Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX | 4 ++-- Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX index 4dc28cc93503..571785887a4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Exporting - explanation of how to make filesystems exportable. Locking - info on locking rules as they pertain to Linux VFS. +9p.txt + - 9p (v9fs) is an implementation of the Plan 9 remote fs protocol. adfs.txt - info and mount options for the Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System. afs.txt @@ -82,8 +84,6 @@ udf.txt - info and mount options for the UDF filesystem. ufs.txt - info on the ufs filesystem. -v9fs.txt - - v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote fs protocol. vfat.txt - info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95 vfs.txt diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index 4d075a4558f9..bbd8b28c13de 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ OPTIONS aname=name aname specifies the file tree to access when the server is offering several exported file systems. + cache=mode specifies a cacheing policy. By default, no caches are used. + loose = no attempts are made at consistency, + intended for exclusive, read-only mounts + debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask. 0x01 = display verbose error messages 0x02 = developer debug (DEBUG_CURRENT) -- cgit v1.2.3