Re: [PATCH] exportfs: reduce stack usage

[Neil Brown]

On Tuesday September 28, rddunlap@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> find_exported_dentry() declares
> 	char nbuf[NAME_MAX+1];
> in 2 separate places, and gcc allocates space on the stack for both
> of them.  Having just one of them will suffice, if we can put put
> with its scope.
> 
> Reduces function stack usage on x86-32 from 0x230 to 0x130.

So it does.  I thought gcc was cleverer than that.
I'll add it to my collection.

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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