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From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: reduce stack usage in xfs_bmap_btalloc()
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:45:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804270145.11632.vda.linux@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080426200347.GA21021@infradead.org>

On Saturday 26 April 2008 22:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 04:51:02PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > This patch reduces xfs_bmap_btalloc() stack usage by 50 bytes
> > by moving part of its body into a helper function.
> > 
> > This results in some variables not taking stack space in
> > xfs_bmap_btalloc() anymore.
> 
> I think this is a good idea, although I'd rather split the function at
> a local boundary.  The patch below (which passes xfsqa) does that
> by splitting out the handling of the most complicated nullfb case
> out.  It probably won't help reducing stack useage as much as yours,
> but it helps beeing able to read the code a little better.

It saves only 16 bytes of stack.
--
vda

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-26 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-26 14:51 [PATCH] xfs: reduce stack usage in xfs_bmap_btalloc() Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-26 18:54 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-26 23:05   ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-26 20:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-26 23:45   ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2008-04-27 23:40 ` David Chinner
2008-04-27 23:57   ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-28  3:32   ` David Chinner
     [not found] <200804261651.02078.vda.linux__2040.04651536724$1209223026$gmane$org@googlemail.com>
2008-04-26 20:02 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-26 20:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-26 20:26     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-26 20:23       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-28  0:06         ` Nathan Scott
2008-04-28  5:56           ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-28 10:32           ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-28 23:52             ` Nathan Scott

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