Re: [PATCH v1 04/10] NFS: Keep the readdir pagecache cursor updated

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On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 20:00 +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 11:59 -0500, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
> > Whenever we successfully locate our dir_cookie within the
> > pagecache,
> > or
> > finish emitting entries to userspace, update the pagecache cursor. 
> > These
> > updates provide marker points to validate pagecache pages in a
> > future
> > patch.
> 
> How isn't this going to end up subject to the exact same problem that
> Dave Wysochanski's patchset had?

IOW: how is this not also making invalid assumptions around page cache
layout stability across READDIR calls?

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx






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