linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] fuse: invalidate dentry on EEXIST creates or ENOENT deletes

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Date:   Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:27:35 +0200
From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:     Jiachen Zhang <zhangjiachen.jaycee@...edance.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        me@...x.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] fuse: invalidate dentry on EEXIST creates or ENOENT deletes

On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 06:36, Jiachen Zhang
<zhangjiachen.jaycee@...edance.com> wrote:
>
> The EEXIST errors returned from server are strong sign that a local
> negative dentry should be invalidated. Similarly, The ENOENT errors from
> server can also be a sign of revalidate failure. This commit invalidates
> dentries on EEXIST creates and ENOENT deletes by calling
> fuse_invalidate_entry(), which improves the consistency with no
> performance degradation.

Applied, thanks.

Miklos