Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757053AbWKVVkV (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:40:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757056AbWKVVkV (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:40:21 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:16844 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757051AbWKVVkU (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:40:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:40:09 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Andrew Morton Cc: Eric Dumazet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable. Message-ID: <20061122214009.GH3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20061121224613.548207f9.akpm@osdl.org> <200611221602.29597.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <200611221848.41330.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <20061122133618.da95e48e.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061122133618.da95e48e.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 583 Lines: 13 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/