Messages in this thread | | | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:45:54 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 1/7] kernfs: move revalidate to be near lookup |
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 10:49, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> 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 <raven@themaw.net>
Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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