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MaxsTechReview a33954b8bd perf: answer Steam's missing-file checks on SD and USB libraries from the directory cache (#2212)
* perf: answer Steam's missing-file checks on FUSE libraries from the directory cache

Before creating and committing each file, the Steam client checks whether it
already exists under its exact, lower-cased and folded spellings. On an SD or
USB library reached through Android's FUSE layer every one of those misses is a
round trip to MediaProvider (Brawlhalla: about 65,000 misses, 92 of the 161 s
of preallocation and 60 of the 93 s of commit).

The client already caches the listings of its steamapps directories on FUSE and
keeps them exact through its own changes, inotify and a short TTL. access() now
answers a name that is absent from a live listing of its directory without
asking the filesystem. Directory paths match case-insensitively only when the
library's filesystem folds case, and names compare case-insensitively, so an
existing file is never reported missing.

* fix: reuse a listing for a differently cased folder only when the whole path folds case

Checking that steamapps alone folds case let a listing of one folder answer
for a different folder below it whose name differs only in case. The fill
now compares the listed folder with its fully case-swapped path below
steamapps, so a listing is reused across case only when the filesystem
folds every level.

* fix(dircache): match a folded listing only below the same prefix and skip it during a tracked change

* fix(linuxfs): a folder renamed or removed above a cached listing drops that listing

* fix(linuxfs): watch the folders above a cached listing so a rename or removal by any process drops it

* fix(linuxfs): also watch the folders above steamapps, and stop a stuck probe from hanging the tests

* fix(linuxfs): a listing under a symlink or an unwatchable folder no longer answers absent lookups

* fix(linuxfs): a symlink check that cannot be watched also stops absent answers

* fix(linuxfs): a differently cased lookup reuses a listing only for the same folder
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