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List:       fuse-devel
Subject:    Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] FUSE: Implement atomic lookup + open
From:       Dharmendra Hans <dharamhans87 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2022-04-07 9:58:12
Message-ID: CACUYsyGkg2+wSfaZUt+B1woQRu96s1RY+b59RPoVE7QkTEsUtQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 4:37 PM Dharmendra Hans <dharamhans87@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 5:22 PM Dharmendra Singh <dharamhans87@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In FUSE, as of now, uncached lookups are expensive over the wire.
> > E.g additional latencies and stressing (meta data) servers from
> > thousands of clients. These lookup calls possibly can be avoided
> > in some cases. Incoming two patches addresses this issue.
> >
> > First patch handles the case where we open first time a file/dir or create
> > a file (O_CREAT) but do a lookup first on it. After lookup is performed
> > we make another call into libfuse to open the file. Now these two separate
> > calls into libfuse can be combined and performed as a single call into
> > libfuse.
> >
> > Second patch handles the case when we are opening an already existing file
> > (positive dentry). Before this open call, we re-validate the inode and
> > this re-validation does a lookup on the file and verify the inode.
> > This separate lookup also can be avoided (for non-dir) and combined
> > with open call into libfuse.
> >
> > Here is the link to the libfuse pull request which implements atomic open
> > https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/pull/644
> >
> > I am going to post performance results shortly.
> >
> >
> > Dharmendra Singh (2):
> >   FUSE: Implement atomic lookup + open
> >   FUSE: Avoid lookup in d_revalidate()
>
> A gentle reminder to look into the above patch set.
Sending a gentle reminder again to look into the requested patches.


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