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fscache: Add a comment explaining how page-release optimisation works
Add a comment into fscache_note_page_release() to explain how the page-release optimisation logic works[1]. It's not entirely obvious as it has nothing to do with whether or not the netfs file contains data. FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ is set if we have no data in the cache yet (ie. the backing file lookup was negative, the file is 0 length or the cookie got invalidated). It means that we have no data in the cache, not that the file is necessarily empty on the server. FSCACHE_COOKIE_HAVE_DATA is set once we've stored data in the backing file. From that point on, we have data we *could* read - however, it's covered by pages in the netfs pagecache until at such time one of those covering pages is released. So if we've written data to the cache (HAVE_DATA) and there wasn't any data in the cache when we started (NO_DATA_TO_READ), it may no longer be true that we can skip reading from the cache. Read skipping is done by cachefiles_prepare_read(). Note that tracking is not done on a per-page basis, but only on a per-file basis. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/043a206f03929c2667a465314144e518070a9b2d.camel@kernel.org/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164251408479.3435901.9540165422908194636.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
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include/linux/fscache.h

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@@ -665,6 +665,11 @@ static inline void fscache_clear_inode_writeback(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
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static inline
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void fscache_note_page_release(struct fscache_cookie *cookie)
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{
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/* If we've written data to the cache (HAVE_DATA) and there wasn't any
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* data in the cache when we started (NO_DATA_TO_READ), it may no
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* longer be true that we can skip reading from the cache - so clear
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* the flag that causes reads to be skipped.
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*/
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if (cookie &&
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test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_HAVE_DATA, &cookie->flags) &&
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test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags))

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