Re: [PATCH] dcache: faster dentry_cmp()

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> > This requires terminating dentry names with 1-3 NULs.
> > Al, can we afford such beauty?
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> At least, in link_path_walk(), there is no room to insert NULs.

We don't necessarily need to pad. It's enough to use the word compare
as a fast path.

Of course memcpy should do it already, but it may be inefficient for
small strings.

-Andi
> 

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