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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html