linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: Introduce linear search for dentries

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Message-ID: <Z3eswqllW9LX2XMh@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 01:24:18 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Daniel Lee <chullee@...gle.com>,
	Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: Introduce linear search for dentries

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 04:57:35PM +0000, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > That means you have really bad worst case behavior for negative lookups.
> > I don' think this is in any way a good idea.
> 
> No surprise. Please check:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z1mzu4Eg6CPURra3@google.com/

Well, I think Linus finally gave in to revert the offending commit
after the usual case insensitivity rants?