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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index fd24f34f120..6bf85b78cfe 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. |