On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:26:38PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > hostfs tries do reduce the amount of syscall between guest and host as much > as possible. For file operations it passes everything down to the host but > for directory operations only ->iterate() does. > > It is already horrible slow, if we add an ->open() for directory too it would > get even more slower. :-(
This sounds fairlt dangerous. At least add some good documentation explaining these semantics. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
