Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] ovl: consistent st_ino/d_ino

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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Following up on your idea:
>>> - check in ovl_iterate() if version has changed and if dir became impure
>>> - if it did, populate od->cache, but keep the dir od->is_real
>>> - iterate upper cache entries and call ovl_cache_update_ino()
>>> - Then actor of real dir iterator can use the cache to ommit entries or use
>>>   p->ino from cache if p->real_ino match real d_ino, but differs from p->ino.
>>
>> For non-merge dirs we can have a simplified cache just containing the
>> entries with origin, recreated when the version changes or updated in
>> rename, whichever is simpler.  A non-merge dir will never become a
>> merge one, so we can keep the handling separate.
>>
>
> And use this cache to ommit/fix entries with actor?

Right.  I think fixing up is better, because to correctly omit entries
we'd need separate lists for each open directory.  For fixing up we
can use a common one, just like for the merged dir.

Thanks,
Miklos
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