Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.15-rc4

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Fri Apr 25 2025 - 23:09:57 EST


On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 08:04:08PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 20:00, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > No, what I wrote is exactly how CI lookups work with the dcache. Go have
> > a look.
>
> Kent, I literally wrote most of that code,

The subject is CI lookups, and I'll eat my shoe if you wrote that.

> and you are claiming that the CI case is trying to be the fast case.

Are you being obtuse on purpose?

I'm saying the CI case is a combination of overoptimized and poorly
designed. I'm not saying the CI case is trying to be the fast path
relative to case-sensitive lookups, that would be insane.