Re: [PATCH v1 1/8] Deferred batching of dput()

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Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
Hi Mike.

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:29:42PM -0800, Mike Waychison (mikew@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
+static void postpone_dput(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	struct postponed_dentries *ppd, *new_ppd;
+
+again:
+	ppd = get_cpu_var(postponed_dentries);
+	if (!pending_dput_full(ppd)) {
+		add_pending_dput(ppd, dentry);
+		put_cpu_var(postponed_dentries);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/* need to flush out existing pending dentries. */
+	put_cpu_var(postponed_dentries);
+	/* Allocate more space.. */
+	new_ppd = new_postponed_dentries();
+	if (!new_ppd) {
+		/* Take the slow path, memory is low */
+		struct postponed_dentries_onstack ppd_onstack;
+		struct postponed_dentries *ppd;
+
+		ppd = init_ppd_onstack(&ppd_onstack);
+		add_pending_dput(ppd, dentry);
+		process_postponed_dentries(ppd);
+		return;
+	}

Why don't you want just to put the dentry in the lowmem condition?


You're right. This path could just use the original dput path. I'll fix it up in the next version.
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