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

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Message-ID: <Z3xIojPamtc5-dUd@google.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 21:18:26 +0000
From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: 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 01/03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

In any ways, we need a way to give the files back for customers, which is only
doable by the linear search, whether it sucks or not. :(