linux-ext4 - Re: fsverity optimzations and speedups

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Message-ID: <20260119-nordhalbkugel-filmabend-7c76091f3a7c@brauner>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:37:43 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, 
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>, 
	Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, fsverity@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: fsverity optimzations and speedups

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 07:22:41AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series has a hodge podge of fsverity enhances that I looked into as
> part of the review of the xfs fsverity support series.
> 
> The first three patches call fsverity code from VFS code instead of
> requiring a lot of boilerplate in the file systems.  The first fixes a

While I'm not super excited about that I can see that it's beneficial.