Re: [git pull] d_revalidate pile

Al Viro
2025-01-28T01:21:22Z

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 04:43:13PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I'm thinking mainly dentry_string_cmp(), which currently does things
> one byte at a time at least partially for the "I must not overrun a
> NUL character because 'len' may be bogus" reason.

Umm... On some architectures it does, but mostly that's the ones
where unaligned word loads are costly. Which target do you have
in mind?