linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fat: eliminate iterations in fat_search_long and __fat

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Date:	Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:45:14 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
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 v2] fat: eliminate iterations in fat_search_long and __fat_readdir in case of EOD

Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com> writes:

> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
>
> When doing lookups via fat_search_long(), 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.
>
> Likewise,when readdir(3) is called, we can stop checking for further
> entries in __fat_readdir() when we hit EOD.

Don't we need to change fat_get_short_entry()? And did this work
correctly about f_pos for readdir?

I'm not thinking about f_pos deeply though, it may have something
wrong. Because it stops at middle of cluster.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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