Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:39:51 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hostfs: Use noop_fsync for directories |
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:26:38PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > hostfs tries do reduce the amount of syscall between guest and host as much > as possible. For file operations it passes everything down to the host but > for directory operations only ->iterate() does. > > It is already horrible slow, if we add an ->open() for directory too it would > get even more slower. :-(
This sounds fairlt dangerous. At least add some good documentation explaining these semantics.
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