linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fat: eliminate iterations in fat_search

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:15:17 +0900
From:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
	Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: eliminate iterations in fat_search_long in case of EOD

2013/1/20, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>:
> Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com> writes:
>
>> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
>>
>> When searching a directory for names, we can stop checking for further
>> entries if we detect End of Directory, i.e. if (de->name[0] == 0x00).The
>> current code traverses the cluster chain of a directory until a hit is
>> found or till the last cluster for that directory, ignoring the EOD mark.
>> Fix this.
>
> f_pos still works fine after this change?
Hi OGAWA.
I can not find f_pos usage in fat_search_long function.
Maybe, Have you seen other function such as __fat_readdir ?
Let me know your opinion.

Thanks.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@...sung.com>
>> ---
>>  fs/fat/dir.c |    4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/fat/dir.c b/fs/fat/dir.c
>> index 58bf744..cde0e69 100644
>> --- a/fs/fat/dir.c
>> +++ b/fs/fat/dir.c
>> @@ -484,10 +484,10 @@ parse_record:
>>  		nr_slots = 0;
>>  		if (de->name[0] == DELETED_FLAG)
>>  			continue;
>> +		if (!de->name[0])
>> +			goto end_of_dir;
>>  		if (de->attr != ATTR_EXT && (de->attr & ATTR_VOLUME))
>>  			continue;
>> -		if (de->attr != ATTR_EXT && IS_FREE(de->name))
>> -			continue;
>>  		if (de->attr == ATTR_EXT) {
>>  			int status = fat_parse_long(inode, &cpos, &bh, &de,
>>  						    &unicode, &nr_slots);
>
> --
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
>
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