On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 09:04:14AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > Doing the dereferences to get an offset stored in the inode_operations > (or fscrypt_operations or fsverity_operations, or maybe even super_block > which would just need one dereference rather than two?), and then doing > the pointer arithmetic, would be faster than an indirect call. It won't > be all that great either, but it would do. Correction: due to inode::i_op, it takes just one dereference to get from inode to inode_operations (as Jan pointed out elsewhere in the thread). So that would probably be best. - Eric
