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/9p.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index 4d075a4558f..bbd8b28c13d 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