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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nfs/inode.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index a56add0bc5b..e8c143d182c 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -840,6 +840,12 @@ int nfs_refresh_inode(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_fattr *fattr) * * After an operation that has changed the inode metadata, mark the * attribute cache as being invalid, then try to update it. + * + * NB: if the server didn't return any post op attributes, this + * function will force the retrieval of attributes before the next + * NFS request. Thus it should be used only for operations that + * are expected to change one or more attributes, to avoid + * unnecessary NFS requests and trips through nfs_update_inode(). */ int nfs_post_op_update_inode(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_fattr *fattr) { |