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vipin@embeddedlinuxworks.com said:
> David once mentioned that there are some obvious optimizations that
> can be carried out in the JFFS2 code. Maybe he could list out his
> favorite ones  and maybe someone could volunteer to tackle them one by
> one. 

I committed the cleanup to jffs2_remove_node_refs_from_ino_list() (Christ, 
did I name that function?), which showed up near the top of the profiles 
you did. What's next? ISTR we got strange data from the profiling. 

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dwmw2