On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 3:19 AM Linus Torvalds
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> So yes, real programs to cache stat information, and it matters for
> performance.
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> But I don't think any actual reasonable program will have
> *correctness* issues, though -
I beg to disagree.
> because there are certainly filesyst
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 8:19 PM Darrick J. Wong wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 01:06:03PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2023-09-28 at 11:48 -0400, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2023, at 07:05, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > > This shaves 8 bytes off struct inode, according to pa
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 2:06 PM Jeff Layton wrote:
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> The recent change to use discrete integers instead of struct timespec64
> in struct inode shaved 8 bytes off of it, but it also moves the i_lock
> into the previous cacheline, away from the fields that it protects.
>
> Move i_blocks up above t
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 4:52 PM Christian Brauner wrote:
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> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 04:04:21PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 1:33 PM Christian Brauner
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 05:08:02PM +0200, Christian
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 1:33 PM Christian Brauner wrote:
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> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 05:08:02PM +0200, Christian Göttsche wrote:
> > Add the four syscalls setxattrat(), getxattrat(), listxattrat() and
> > removexattrat(). Those can be used to operate on extended attributes,
> > especially securit
