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From: Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	Chen Linxuan <me@black-desk.cn>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Matt Harvey <mharvey@jumptrading.com>,
	kernel-dev@igalia.com, Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] fuse: caches documentation and testing
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:11:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260817141156.6079-1-luis@igalia.com> (raw)

Hi!

I'm (finally!) sending v2 of this patchset.  It tries to document (and add
a few kselftests) to the different types of caches that are currently in use
within FUSE.  As I mentioned in v1 the idea for documenting this came from
Miklos during this year's LSFMM, where he mentioned he would like to see
caches usage documented before he could merge an initial version of fusex.

This version documents symlinks, attributes, ACLs and readdir caches.  Still
missing: dentries and data caching.

I'm still sending it as an RFC as I'm still not sure if it fulfils Miklos'
initial goal.

As usual feedback is welcome, as I'll (slowly) continue looking into other
cache types.

Major changes since v1:
- Added more caches to the document
- Changed tests format to single self-contained binaries
- Since Amir added a new fuse3-based test, the conversion to fuse3 of the
  fusectl has minor changes to the Makefile
  - NOTE: I've kept Amir's Reviewed-by anyway (should I drop it?)
- Added the ACL test-cases to the new ACL test implemented by Amir
  - This required some re-work of the existing test (patches 5 & 6)
- Added more tests

Luis Henriques (8):
  Documentation: fuse: add document on caches being used by FUSE
  selftests/fuse: convert fusectl test to fuse3
  selftests/fuse: check that fusectlfs is mounted
  selftests/fuse: add fuse symlink caching test
  selftests/fuse: factor-out test fixture setup/teardown
  selftests/fuse: use dynamically allocated memory to store ACLs
  selftests/fuse: add some extra ACL caching tests
  selftests/fuse: add fuse readdir caching test

 .../filesystems/fuse/fuse-caches.rst          | 142 ++++++++
 .../selftests/filesystems/fuse/.gitignore     |   3 +
 .../selftests/filesystems/fuse/Makefile       |  28 +-
 .../filesystems/fuse/fuse_acl_cache_test.c    | 289 ++++++++++++++--
 .../selftests/filesystems/fuse/fuse_mnt.c     |  17 +-
 .../fuse/fuse_readdir_cache_test.c            | 314 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../fuse/fuse_symlink_cache_test.c            | 204 ++++++++++++
 .../selftests/filesystems/fuse/fusectl_test.c |   7 +
 8 files changed, 950 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/fuse/fuse-caches.rst
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/fuse_readdir_cache_test.c
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/fuse/fuse_symlink_cache_test.c


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-17 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-17 14:11 Luis Henriques [this message]
2026-08-17 14:11 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/8] Documentation: fuse: add document on caches being used by FUSE Luis Henriques
2026-08-18 12:40   ` Amir Goldstein
2026-08-18 15:51     ` Luis Henriques
2026-08-18 19:57       ` Amir Goldstein
2026-08-17 14:11 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/8] selftests/fuse: convert fusectl test to fuse3 Luis Henriques
2026-08-17 14:11 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/8] selftests/fuse: check that fusectlfs is mounted Luis Henriques
2026-08-17 14:11 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/8] selftests/fuse: add fuse symlink caching test Luis Henriques
2026-08-17 14:11 ` [RFC PATCH v2 5/8] selftests/fuse: factor-out test fixture setup/teardown Luis Henriques
2026-08-18 13:09   ` Amir Goldstein
2026-08-18 15:51     ` Luis Henriques
2026-08-17 14:11 ` [RFC PATCH v2 6/8] selftests/fuse: use dynamically allocated memory to store ACLs Luis Henriques
2026-08-17 14:11 ` [RFC PATCH v2 7/8] selftests/fuse: add some extra ACL caching tests Luis Henriques
2026-08-17 14:11 ` [RFC PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/fuse: add fuse readdir caching test Luis Henriques
2026-08-18 13:13 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] fuse: caches documentation and testing Amir Goldstein
2026-08-18 15:52   ` Luis Henriques

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