[PATCH 5/6] xfs: move non-inline symlinks to the pagecache

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 08:32:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 03:57:28PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > Note that caching the symlink in a kmalloc'ed buffer might be
> > > more efficient than the pagecache for most cases anyway.
> > 
> > Hmm...  When would you free the sucker?
> 
> final iput.  Similar design to the generic ACL cache.

Except that in this case you have to deal with the cases when it should
_not_ be freed in ->evict_inode() (and doing that in generic code is
right out).  I'm not sure it will be simpler that way, actually...