Re: [PATCH v8] fuse: add more control over cache invalidation behaviour

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 12:34, Luis Henriques <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Laura,
>
> On Fri, Apr 11 2025, Laura Promberger wrote:
>
> > Hello Miklos, Luis,
> >
> > I tested Luis NOTIFY_INC_EPOCH patch (kernel, libfuse, cvmfs) on RHEL9 and can
> > confirm that in combination with your fix to the symlink truncate it solves all
> > the problem we had with cvmfs when applying a new revision and at the same time
> > hammering a symlink with readlink() that would change its target. (
> > https://github.com/cvmfs/cvmfs/issues/3626 )
> >
> > With those two patches we no longer end up with corrupted symlinks or get stuck on an old revision.
> > (old revision was possible because the kernel started caching the old one again during the update due to the high access rate and the asynchronous evict of inodes)
> >
> > As such we would be very happy if this patch could be accepted.
>
> Even though this patch and the one that fixed the symlinks corruption [1]
> aren't really related, it's always good to have extra testing.  Thanks a
> lot for your help, Laura.
>
> In the meantime, I hope to send a refreshed v9 of this patch soon (maybe
> today) as it doesn't apply cleanly to current master anymore.  And I also
> plan to send v2 of the (RFC) patch that adds the workqueue to clean-up
> expired cache entries.

Don't bother, I just applied the patch with the conflicts fixed up.

Thanks,
Miklois