From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] xfs: move non-inline symlinks to the pagecache
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 15:57:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150425145728.GE889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150425141612.GA4153@lst.de>
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 04:16:12PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Al, what do you think about adding a new
>
> i_link member to the union of i_pipe, i_bdev and i_cdev. That we
> we can cache a link acquired by any way for direct use in the VFS.
>
> This has a few use cases: inline links can be set up directly
> when reading the inode, and we never need to call into ->follow_link.
>
> Formats like the XFS v5 symlinks can be read in once by whatever
> way we want, and following accesses can be done RCU safe and
> without calling into the filesystem.
>
> Note that caching the symlink in a kmalloc'ed buffer might be
> more efficient than the pagecache for most cases anyway.
Hmm... When would you free the sucker?
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2015-04-25 14:16 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs: move non-inline symlinks to the pagecache Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-25 14:57 ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-04-25 15:11 ` Al Viro
2015-04-25 18:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-25 21:05 ` Al Viro
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