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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/super.c | 1 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index fd24f34..6bf85b78 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -317,6 +317,12 @@ or bottom half). the VM is trying to reclaim under GFP_NOFS conditions, hence this method does not need to handle that situation itself. + Implementations must include conditional reschedule calls inside any + scanning loop that is done. This allows the VFS to determine + appropriate scan batch sizes without having to worry about whether + implementations will cause holdoff problems due to large scan batch + sizes. + Whoever sets up the inode is responsible for filling in the "i_op" field. This is a pointer to a "struct inode_operations" which describes the methods that can be performed on individual inodes. @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type) s->s_shrink.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS; s->s_shrink.shrink = prune_super; + s->s_shrink.batch = 1024; } out: return s; |
