Re: [PATCH 2/3] fuse: Add negative_dentry_timeout option

[Keiichi Watanabe]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 1:07 PM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 00:53, Junichi Uekawa (上川純一) <uekawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Hi
> >
> >
> >
> > 2023年6月21日(水) 4:28 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at 17:14, Keiichi Watanabe <keiichiw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Add `negative_dentry_timeout` mount option for FUSE to cache negative
> >> > dentries for the specified duration.
> >>
> >> This is already possible, no kernel changes needed.  See e.g.
> >> xmp_init() in libfuse/example/passthrough.c.
> >>
> >
> > Thank you for the pointer!
> >
> > So reading libfuse/fuse.c, fuse_lib_lookup does a reply with e.ino=0 err=0 (instead of ENOENT) with e.entry_timeout=negative_timeout,
> > for each lookup (and there's no global configuration but that's okay) ?
>
> Yes.


Oh, good to know!
I could make it work in our VMM (crosvm) without any kernel changes.
https://crrev.com/c/4630879
Thanks a lot!

Keiichi


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> Thanks,
> Miklos