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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable.
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:40:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061122214009.GH3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061122133618.da95e48e.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:36:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The DCACHE_UNHASHED games seem hacky.
> 
> Would it be cleaner to define a new dentry.d_flags bit which can be used to
> indicate that this is a hashing-not-needed dentry, and to handle that over
> in dcache.c?

Much more invasive change, actually, and on fairly hot paths.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-22 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-21 20:33 [PATCH] snd-hda-intel: fix insufficient memory wbrana
2006-11-22  6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-22 15:02   ` [RCU] adds a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() Eric Dumazet
2006-11-22 17:48     ` [PATCH] dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable Eric Dumazet
2006-11-22 21:36       ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-22 21:40         ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-11-23  4:12         ` David Miller
2006-11-30  1:25     ` [RCU] adds a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() Paul E. McKenney
2006-11-30  8:55       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-30 17:15         ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-11-22 17:19   ` [PATCH] snd-hda-intel: fix insufficient memory wbrana
2006-11-22 20:04     ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 20:17       ` wbrana
2006-11-23 21:10         ` Andrew Morton

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