Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] ovl: consistent st_ino/d_ino

[Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 3:18:20 PM IST Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> Following up on your idea:
> >>> - check in ovl_iterate() if version has changed and if dir became impure
> >>> - if it did, populate od->cache, but keep the dir od->is_real
> >>> - iterate upper cache entries and call ovl_cache_update_ino()
> >>> - Then actor of real dir iterator can use the cache to ommit entries or use
> >>>   p->ino from cache if p->real_ino match real d_ino, but differs from p->ino.
> >>
> >> For non-merge dirs we can have a simplified cache just containing the
> >> entries with origin, recreated when the version changes or updated in
> >> rename, whichever is simpler.  A non-merge dir will never become a
> >> merge one, so we can keep the handling separate.
> >>
> >
> > And use this cache to ommit/fix entries with actor?
> 
> Right.  I think fixing up is better, because to correctly omit entries
> we'd need separate lists for each open directory.  For fixing up we
> can use a common one, just like for the merged dir.
> 

Amir, Can I please take over the implementation of this feature.

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chandan