[PATCH RESEND] doc: fuse: Add max_background and congestion_threshold

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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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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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