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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> says: quote: When utilized it dodges strlen() in vfs_readlink(), giving about 1.5% speed up when issuing readlink on /initrd.img on ext4. The size is stored in a union with i_devices, which is never looked at unless the inode is for a device. ext4 and tmpfs are patched, other filesystems can also get there with some more work. benchmark: plug into will-it-scale into tests/readlink1.c: char *testcase_description = "readlink /initrd.img"; void testcase(unsigned long long *iterations, unsigned long nr) { char *tmplink = "/initrd.img"; char buf[1024]; while (1) { int error = readlink(tmplink, buf, sizeof(buf)); assert(error > 0); (*iterations)++; } } * patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120112037.822078-1-mjguzik@gmail.com: tmpfs: use inode_set_cached_link() ext4: use inode_set_cached_link() vfs: support caching symlink lengths in inodes Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120112037.822078-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.