linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vfs: support caching symlink lengths in inodes

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Message-ID: <Zz1tK-rMV5uYyco6@casper.infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 05:01:31 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: "wangjianjian (C)" <wangjianjian3@...wei.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>, brauner@...nel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jack@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hughd@...gle.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vfs: support caching symlink lengths in inodes

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 12:15:18PM +0800, wangjianjian (C) wrote:
> > +{
> > +	inode->i_link = link;
> > +	inode->i_linklen = linklen;
> Just curious, is this linklen equal to inode size? if it is, why don't use
> it?

Maybe you should read v1 of the patch series where Jan explained where
that's not true.