From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AE5C48BD1 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:47:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E4461249 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231547AbhFKMtF (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2021 08:49:05 -0400 Received: from mail-ua1-f50.google.com ([209.85.222.50]:44892 "EHLO mail-ua1-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230349AbhFKMtD (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2021 08:49:03 -0400 Received: by mail-ua1-f50.google.com with SMTP id 68so2516108uao.11 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:47:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=szeredi.hu; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=WjHrb1dtK2G/VbmUcqAkZXLppuMhMD3yMja93ulZGQA=; b=TDYoRaMYnwSoHRfHhL8DdQgmyyazxTWd+5D9U6VCh6/4Cqe+HB+jQIwNMTGVAepTi/ EG8SMJmsDCwnfL7FNv9ubkMR7fxAyaiyOaUuzrCpG6AQ0ECcse3JAlaW1CpYbpIgrCqL kXP81kGnaSZ+bsP/LfqD63ZHfNlQLgSxrUIg8= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=WjHrb1dtK2G/VbmUcqAkZXLppuMhMD3yMja93ulZGQA=; b=H0OcdMam1XuQJH7/pJ+LxQ3JWktL5iQOFJDhWYXh4bJDt8A5Ny81BE3QT2D7MOoQkI YDlheCRzARILOfLZ+2Zi7MJCRdEyweDCh6pxDMLsA6sFxCkAAgLeft2Wtwpb27pJjx9W McUf3JhItyJc+Mkjn0RAN5cy3gu96VFDVJTkn/DOU545b0c0QNrVhCrJxyToy10xMZ1t adJ4ddut4XyNbNbakShNBpzxufIP65H+LKeACfMbKRri6XsRS/CHQLMQEIiGoDkAEj7w EzcSC4381h/lBSqE69bfZ2rsVc184TWLOv+zIz9swz053mAxrQtwqmlzk68euR+r2gwd owug== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530sEE/WNaqBOEotpGF7af5TYYDkZNHfKwNhMsdKiAkYhwMMO13f BDDrmdIPSumitXE8/muL1/3gwBSquA1dRVXlf2lWfQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxsTaNkmd6IAo6MBi8zrtu0rXXBlRV5F5kC0pToscPzFB5ElGS3yZW1yf0MnsJxWIjkZkCPso9bS6w7O+CpmE8= X-Received: by 2002:ab0:3418:: with SMTP id z24mr2723800uap.11.1623415565376; Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:46:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <162322846765.361452.17051755721944717990.stgit@web.messagingengine.com> <162322857790.361452.16044356399148573870.stgit@web.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <162322857790.361452.16044356399148573870.stgit@web.messagingengine.com> From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:45:54 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/7] kernfs: move revalidate to be near lookup To: Ian Kent Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Tejun Heo , Eric Sandeen , Fox Chen , Brice Goglin , Al Viro , Rick Lindsley , David Howells , Marcelo Tosatti , "Eric W. Biederman" , Carlos Maiolino , linux-fsdevel , Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 10:49, Ian Kent wrote: > > While the dentry operation kernfs_dop_revalidate() is grouped with > dentry type functions it also has a strong affinity to the inode > operation ->lookup(). > > It makes sense to locate this function near to kernfs_iop_lookup() > because we will be adding VFS negative dentry caching to reduce path > lookup overhead for non-existent paths. > > There's no functional change from this patch. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi