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    fuse: implement NFS-like readdirplus support · 0b05b183
    Anand V. Avati authored
    
    
    This patch implements readdirplus support in FUSE, similar to NFS.
    The payload returned in the readdirplus call contains
    'fuse_entry_out' structure thereby providing all the necessary inputs
    for 'faking' a lookup() operation on the spot.
    
    If the dentry and inode already existed (for e.g. in a re-run of ls -l)
    then just the inode attributes timeout and dentry timeout are refreshed.
    
    With a simple client->network->server implementation of a FUSE based
    filesystem, the following performance observations were made:
    
    Test: Performing a filesystem crawl over 20,000 files with
    
    sh# time ls -lR /mnt
    
    Without readdirplus:
    Run 1: 18.1s
    Run 2: 16.0s
    Run 3: 16.2s
    
    With readdirplus:
    Run 1: 4.1s
    Run 2: 3.8s
    Run 3: 3.8s
    
    The performance improvement is significant as it avoided 20,000 upcalls
    calls (lookup). Cache consistency is no worse than what already is.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnand V. Avati <avati@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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