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: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>

Update license boilerplate to specify GPLv2 and remove the (at your option
clause).  This change was agreed to by all the copyright holders (approvals
can be found on v9fs-developer mailing list).
Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The code talks about these things called tids, which I eventually figured
out are tags.
Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

New multiplexer implementation. Decreases the number of kernel threads
required. Better handling when the user process receives a signal.
Signed-off-by: NLatchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Support for force umount
Signed-off-by: NLatchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This part of the patch contains VFS superblock and mapping code.
Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>