Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] symlink length caching

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Tue Nov 19 2024 - 12:54:38 EST


On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>
> On my v1 Jan remarked 1.5% is not a particularly high win questioning
> whether doing this makes sense. I noted the value is only this small
> because of other slowdowns.

Do you have a workload in mind which calls readlink() at sufficiently
high numbers such that this would be noticeable in
non-micro-benchmarks? What motiviated you to do this work?

Thanks,

- Ted