On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 08:20:59AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 03:27:56PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Another indirect call just to fetch the change attribute (which happens > > > a lot IIRC) does not seem very optimal to me. > > > > In the next patch we're removing an fh_getattr (vfs_getattr) in the case > > we call the new op, so that's typically a net decrease in indirect > > calls. > > > > Though maybe we could use a flag here and do without either. > > > > > And the fact that we need three duplicate implementations also is not > > > very nice. > > > > Ext4 and xfs are identical, btrfs is a little different since it doesn't > > consult I_VERSION. (And then there's nfs, which uses the origin > > server's i_version if it can.) > > I'd much prefer to just keep consulting the I_VERSION flag and only > add the new op as an override for the NFS export. OK, sorry for the delay, I'm not wedded to that second patch; I can just replace the test for the new export op by a test for either that or SB_I_VERSION, and it ends up being the same. Will follow up in a moment..... --b.