Re: [PATCH] xfs: reduce stack usage in xfs_bmap_btalloc()

From: Nathan Scott
Date: Sun Apr 27 2008 - 20:22:42 EST


On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:23 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:23:23 -0400
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> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:26:30PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > STATIC as defined by xfs already does this..
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> > Weird. Unexpected. Different from everyone else. Is this some
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> > obfuscation?
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> The whole STATIC thing is weird to start with..
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Having to compile chunks of XFS code in both kernel and
userspace is also wierd (relative to other drivers), and
its a side-effect of needing to do that (all the code
dealing with specifics of ondisk format is shared).

cheers.

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Nathan

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