On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:35:43AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:10:13PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > I would even say 10 function calls deep to allocate file blocks > > is overkill, but 22 it just astronomically bad. > > Especially since a large part is due to cxfs... ... and patches sent in the past to remove layers from XFS have been NAKed due to CXFS http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00166.html http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00167.html http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00168.html http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00171.html Maybe IRIX is now sufficiently dead that the last argument doesn't matter any more. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html