Re: [PATCH] ext4: Don't use 'struct dentry' for internal lookups

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On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:30:47PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> This is a port of a patch from Linus which fixes a 200+ byte stack
> usage problem in ext4_get_parent().
> 
> It's more efficient to pass down only the actual parts of the dentry
> that matter: the parent inode and the name, instead of allocating a
> struct dentry on the stack.

Al had a variant of this in the vfs queue for a while.

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