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From: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@denx.de>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	"Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>,
	Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>,
	Li Guifu <bluce.liguifu@huawei.com>,
	Fang Wei <fangwei1@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/24] erofs: add namei functions
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:28:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190829112833.GE64893@architecture4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190829102838.GG20598@infradead.org>

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 03:28:38AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 08:53:31PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > +struct erofs_qstr {
> > +	const unsigned char *name;
> > +	const unsigned char *end;
> > +};
> 
> Maybe erofs_name?  The q in qstr stands for quick, because of the
> existing hash and len, which this doesn't really provide.
> 
> Also I don't really see why you don't just pass the actual qstr and
> just document that dirnamecmp does not look at the hash and thus
> doesn't require it to be filled out.

q in erofs_qstr also means quick substring.
If you have some time to look into it more, it uses a prefixed
binary search algorithm (rather than linear traversal), which
provides similar proformance with hashed approach but no need
to save such hash field and it's natively sorted in alphabet
order.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-29 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-02 12:53 [PATCH v6 00/24] erofs: promote erofs from staging Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 01/24] erofs: add on-disk layout Gao Xiang
2019-08-29  9:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 10:32     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:36       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 10:58         ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 15:58       ` Joe Perches
2019-08-29 17:26         ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 12:07         ` David Sterba
2019-08-30 12:18           ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02  8:43           ` Pavel Machek
2019-09-02 14:07             ` David Sterba
2019-09-03 11:27               ` Pavel Machek
2019-08-29 15:41     ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-01  7:54     ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 12:45       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 13:02         ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02  8:40     ` Pavel Machek
2019-09-02 10:35       ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 02/24] erofs: add erofs in-memory stuffs Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 03/24] erofs: add super block operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 10:50     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 16:39       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 17:15         ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-31  0:54           ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-31  6:34           ` Amir Goldstein
2019-08-31  6:48             ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-01  8:54     ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 12:51       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 14:43         ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 15:19           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 15:24             ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 04/24] erofs: add raw address_space operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 11:46     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 16:40       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 17:23         ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 05/24] erofs: add inode operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 11:59     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-30 16:42       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-30 18:46         ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-01  9:34     ` Gao Xiang
2019-09-02 12:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 13:43       ` David Sterba
2019-09-02 13:55         ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 06/24] erofs: support special inode Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:25   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-01  9:39     ` Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 07/24] erofs: add directory operations Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 08/24] erofs: add namei functions Gao Xiang
2019-08-29 10:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 11:28     ` Gao Xiang [this message]
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 09/24] erofs: support tracepoint Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 10/24] erofs: update Kconfig and Makefile Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 11/24] erofs: introduce xattr & posixacl support Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 12/24] erofs: introduce tagged pointer Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 13/24] erofs: add compression indexes support Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 14/24] erofs: introduce superblock registration Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 15/24] erofs: introduce erofs shrinker Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 16/24] erofs: introduce workstation for decompression Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 17/24] erofs: introduce per-CPU buffers implementation Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 18/24] erofs: introduce pagevec for decompression subsystem Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 19/24] erofs: add erofs_allocpage() Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 20/24] erofs: introduce generic decompression backend Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 21/24] erofs: introduce LZ4 decompression inplace Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 22/24] erofs: introduce the decompression frontend Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 23/24] erofs: introduce cached decompression Gao Xiang
2019-08-02 12:53 ` [PATCH v6 24/24] erofs: add document Gao Xiang

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