Messages in this thread | | | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:41:49 +0200 | Subject | Re: Re: [RFC PATCH] fuse: support cache revalidation in writeback_cache mode |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 15:33, Jiachen Zhang <zhangjiachen.jaycee@bytedance.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 8:41 PM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 14:23, Jiachen Zhang > > <zhangjiachen.jaycee@bytedance.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > This RFC patch implements attr cache and data cache revalidation for > > > fuse writeback_cache mode in kernel. Looking forward to any suggestions > > > or comments on this feature. > > > > Quick question before going into the details: could the cache > > revalidation be done in the userspace filesystem instead, which would > > set/clear FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE based on the result of the revalidation? > > > > Thanks, > > Miklos > > Hi, Miklos, > > Thanks for replying. Yes, I believe we can also perform the > revalidation in userspace, and we can invalidate the data cache with > FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE cleared. But for now, there is no way we can > invalidate attr cache (c/mtime and size) in writeback mode.
Can you please describe the use case for invalidating the attr cache?
Thanks, Miklos
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