Re: [PATCH v6 3/7] kernfs: use VFS negative dentry caching

From: Ian Kent
Date: Sat Jun 12 2021 - 22:07:58 EST


On Sat, 2021-06-12 at 01:48 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 08:47:17AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> > > Perhaps add a note about this being dependent on parent of a
> > > negative
> > > dentry never changing.
> >
> > Which of course it it can change, at any time.
>
> What?

For some reason I thought Miklos was talking about the revision
of the parent not changing but that's not what he's saying.

Ian