Re: [PATCH v1 1/8] Deferred batching of dput()

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

Hi Mike.

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:29:42PM -0800, Mike Waychison (mikew@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> +static void postpone_dput(struct dentry *dentry)
> +{
> +	struct postponed_dentries *ppd, *new_ppd;
> +
> +again:
> +	ppd = get_cpu_var(postponed_dentries);
> +	if (!pending_dput_full(ppd)) {
> +		add_pending_dput(ppd, dentry);
> +		put_cpu_var(postponed_dentries);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* need to flush out existing pending dentries. */
> +	put_cpu_var(postponed_dentries);
> +	/* Allocate more space.. */
> +	new_ppd = new_postponed_dentries();
> +	if (!new_ppd) {
> +		/* Take the slow path, memory is low */
> +		struct postponed_dentries_onstack ppd_onstack;
> +		struct postponed_dentries *ppd;
> +
> +		ppd = init_ppd_onstack(&ppd_onstack);
> +		add_pending_dput(ppd, dentry);
> +		process_postponed_dentries(ppd);
> +		return;
> +	}

Why don't you want just to put the dentry in the lowmem condition?

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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