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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt | 44 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt | 12 |
6 files changed, 31 insertions, 58 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt index 64ced5149d37..1a5d82180b84 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt @@ -68,16 +68,10 @@ sockets-enqueued rate of change for this counter is zero; significantly non-zero values may indicate a performance limitation. - This can happen either because there are too few nfsd threads in the - thread pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited), - or because the NFS workload needs more CPU time than is available in - the thread pool (the workload is CPU-limited). In the former case, - configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the performance - of the NFS workload. In the latter case, the sunrpc server layer is - already choosing not to wake idle nfsd threads because there are too - many nfsd threads which want to run but cannot, so configuring more - nfsd threads will make no difference whatsoever. The overloads-avoided - statistic (see below) can be used to distinguish these cases. + This can happen because there are too few nfsd threads in the thread + pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited), in which + case configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the + performance of the NFS workload. threads-woken Counts how many times an idle nfsd thread is woken to try to @@ -88,36 +82,6 @@ threads-woken thing. The ideal rate of change for this counter will be close to but less than the rate of change of the packets-arrived counter. -overloads-avoided - Counts how many times the sunrpc server layer chose not to wake an - nfsd thread, despite the presence of idle nfsd threads, because - too many nfsd threads had been recently woken but could not get - enough CPU time to actually run. - - This statistic counts a circumstance where the sunrpc layer - heuristically avoids overloading the CPU scheduler with too many - runnable nfsd threads. The ideal rate of change for this counter - is zero. Significant non-zero values indicate that the workload - is CPU limited. Usually this is associated with heavy CPU usage - on all the CPUs in the nfsd thread pool. - - If a sustained large overloads-avoided rate is detected on a pool, - the top(1) utility should be used to check for the following - pattern of CPU usage on all the CPUs associated with the given - nfsd thread pool. - - - %us ~= 0 (as you're *NOT* running applications on your NFS server) - - - %wa ~= 0 - - - %id ~= 0 - - - %sy + %hi + %si ~= 100 - - If this pattern is seen, configuring more nfsd threads will *not* - improve the performance of the workload. If this patten is not - seen, then something more subtle is wrong. - threads-timedout Counts how many times an nfsd thread triggered an idle timeout, i.e. was not woken to handle any incoming network packets for diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 3eae250254d5..68f1c9106573 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. - permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called -on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for -exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). -See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. + permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all +directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It +must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See +Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. -- [mandatory] diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index c3b6b301d8b0..6f7fafde0884 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ asynchronous manner and the value may not be very precise. To see a precise snapshot of a moment, you can see /proc/<pid>/smaps file and scan page table. It's slow but very precise. -Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 3.20.0) +Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1) .............................................................................. Field Content Name filename of the executable @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 3.20.0) VmExe size of text segment VmLib size of shared library code VmPTE size of page table entries + VmPMD size of second level page tables VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents) Threads number of threads SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt index 5e8de25bf0f1..29fc01552646 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt @@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ The interface uses generic netlink framework (see http://lwn.net/Articles/208755/ and http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/ for more details about this layer). The name of the quota generic netlink interface is "VFS_DQUOT". Definitions of constants below are in <linux/quota.h>. - Currently, the interface supports only one message type QUOTA_NL_C_WARNING. +Since the quota netlink protocol is not namespace aware, quota netlink messages +are sent only in initial network namespace. + +Currently, the interface supports only one message type QUOTA_NL_C_WARNING. This command is used to send a notification about any of the above mentioned events. Each message has six attributes. These are (type of the argument is in parentheses): diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index b403b29ef710..5eb8456fc41e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ struct file_operations ---------------------- This describes how the VFS can manipulate an open file. As of kernel -3.12, the following members are defined: +4.1, the following members are defined: struct file_operations { struct module *owner; @@ -813,8 +813,9 @@ struct file_operations { long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *); + int (*mremap)(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *); int (*open) (struct inode *, struct file *); - int (*flush) (struct file *); + int (*flush) (struct file *, fl_owner_t id); int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *); int (*fsync) (struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int datasync); int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync); @@ -824,11 +825,15 @@ struct file_operations { unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long); int (*check_flags)(int); int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *); - ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, size_t, unsigned int); - ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int); - int (*setlease)(struct file *, long arg, struct file_lock **, void **); - long (*fallocate)(struct file *, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len); + ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, unsigned int); + ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, loff_t *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int); + int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **, void **); + long (*fallocate)(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, + loff_t len); void (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f); +#ifndef CONFIG_MMU + unsigned (*mmap_capabilities)(struct file *); +#endif }; Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt index 5a5a05582b58..8146e9fd5ffc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt @@ -236,10 +236,10 @@ Removed Mount Options Name Removed ---- ------- - delaylog/nodelaylog v3.20 - ihashsize v3.20 - irixsgid v3.20 - osyncisdsync/osyncisosync v3.20 + delaylog/nodelaylog v4.0 + ihashsize v4.0 + irixsgid v4.0 + osyncisdsync/osyncisosync v4.0 sysctls @@ -346,5 +346,5 @@ Removed Sysctls Name Removed ---- ------- - fs.xfs.xfsbufd_centisec v3.20 - fs.xfs.age_buffer_centisecs v3.20 + fs.xfs.xfsbufd_centisec v4.0 + fs.xfs.age_buffer_centisecs v4.0 |