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From: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/8] Deferred batching of iput()
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:07:35 -0800
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Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:29:52PM -0800, Mike Waychison (mikew@google.com) wrote:
>> +static void postpone_iput(struct inode *inode)
>> +{
>> +	struct postponed_inodes *ppi, *new_ppi;
>> +
>> +again:
>> +	ppi = get_cpu_var(postponed_inodes);
>> +	if (!pending_iput_full(ppi)) {
>> +		add_pending_iput(ppi, inode);
>> +		put_cpu_var(postponed_inodes);
>> +		return;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	/* Need to flush out existing pending inodes */
>> +	put_cpu_var(postponed_inodes);
>> +	/* Allocate more space.. */
>> +	new_ppi = new_postponed_inodes();
>> +	if (!new_ppi) {
>> +		struct postponed_inodes_onstack ppi_onstack;
>> +
>> +		ppi = init_ppi_onstack(&ppi_onstack);
>> +		add_pending_iput(ppi, inode);
>> +		process_postponed_inodes(ppi);
>> +		return;
>> +	}
> 
> The same here: what just not to call a real_iput() without on-stack
> allocation and the line?
> 

Agreed.  Will fix in the next version.