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NFS: add comments clarifying the use of nfs_post_op_update()

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Comments-only change to clarify a detail of the NFS protocol and how it is
implemented in Linux.

Test plan:
None.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Chuck Lever
2006-09-20 14:33:04 -04:00
committed by Trond Myklebust
parent a53a3c58fd
commit f551e44ff1
2 changed files with 13 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -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)
{