On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 04:16:12PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Al, what do you think about adding a new > > i_link member to the union of i_pipe, i_bdev and i_cdev. That we > we can cache a link acquired by any way for direct use in the VFS. > > This has a few use cases: inline links can be set up directly > when reading the inode, and we never need to call into ->follow_link. > > Formats like the XFS v5 symlinks can be read in once by whatever > way we want, and following accesses can be done RCU safe and > without calling into the filesystem. > > Note that caching the symlink in a kmalloc'ed buffer might be > more efficient than the pagecache for most cases anyway. Hmm... When would you free the sucker? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
