Re: [PATCH] fuse: cache POSIX ACLs when setting them

Luis Henriques <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:16:35 +0100
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.fuse-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 04:51:47PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 at 16:43, Amir Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > unlikely to matter if we do cache on setacl or unlikely to matter
> > if we don't cache?
> 
> Unlikely to matter that we don't cache setacl, because it should be a
> rare operation, so an additional roundtrip just shouldn't make any
> difference to performance.
> 
> Changing this does carry a small risk of regressions.

Right, I've tried to document this behaviour already [1], as I wasn't sure
this patch would be OK -- I understand why it makes sense to have this extra
hop into user-space and it makes sense to drop this patch.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]

Cheers,
--
Luis