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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/ # v11 parent 6633213 commit c522e3a
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