* [RFC PATCH] doc: fuse: Add max_background and congestion_threshold
@ 2025-05-14 6:17 Chen Linxuan
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From: Chen Linxuan @ 2025-05-14 6:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Miklos Szeredi, Jonathan Corbet
Cc: zhanjun, niecheng1, wentao, Chen Linxuan, Amir Goldstein,
linux-fsdevel, linux-doc, linux-kernel
As I preparing patches adding selftests for fusectl,
I notice that documentation of max_background and congestion_threshold
is missing.
This patch add some descriptions about these two files.
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@uniontech.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/fuse.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.rst
index 1e31e87aee68c..c589316c8bb35 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.rst
@@ -129,6 +129,20 @@ For each connection the following files exist within this directory:
connection. This means that all waiting requests will be aborted an
error returned for all aborted and new requests.
+ max_background
+ The maximum number of background requests that can be outstanding
+ at a time. When the number of background requests reaches this limit,
+ further requests will be blocked until some are completed, potentially
+ causing I/O operations to stall.
+
+ congestion_threshold
+ The threshold of background requests at which the kernel considers
+ the filesystem to be congested. When the number of background requests
+ exceeds this value, the kernel will skip asynchronous readahead
+ operations, reducing read-ahead optimizations but preserving essential
+ I/O, as well as suspending non-synchronous writeback operations
+ (WB_SYNC_NONE), delaying page cache flushing to the filesystem.
+
Only the owner of the mount may read or write these files.
Interrupting filesystem operations
--
2.43.0
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