RE: [PATCH v3] exfat: speed up iterate/lookup by fixing start point of traversing cluster chain

From: Namjae Jeon
Date: Tue Mar 23 2021 - 04:27:24 EST


> > When directory iterate and lookup is called, there's a buggy rewinding
> > of start point for traversing cluster chain to the parent directory
> > entry's first cluster. This caused repeated cluster chain traversing
> > from the first entry of the parent directory that would show worse
> > performance if huge amounts of files exist under the parent directory.
> > Fix not to rewind, make continue from currently referenced cluster and
> > dir entry.
> >
> > Tested with 50,000 files under single directory / 256GB sdcard, with
> > command "time ls -l > /dev/null",
> > Before : 0m08.69s real 0m00.27s user 0m05.91s system
> > After : 0m07.01s real 0m00.25s user 0m04.34s system
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hyeongseok Kim <hyeongseok@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good.
> Thanks for your contribution.
>
> Reviewed-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied. Thanks!