Re: [LKP] [lkp] [dcache_{readdir, dir_lseek}() users] 4e82901cd6: reaim.jobs_per_min -49.1% regression

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Jun 26 2016 - 17:20:15 EST


On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FWIW, #work.dcache_readdir in vfs.git seems to recover the performance.
> Not sure if it's worth pushing right now, but if it ends up the next
> cycle stuff, I think it'll be worth Cc:stable.

Hmm. I guess that if you're confident enough about it, we might as
well merge it now and avoid the backport and stable headache.

Linus