From: William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:56:31 -0800
> just do it on a per-directory basis so you don't intermix children > of different parents in some boot-time -allocated global trainwreck > and you're home free. Benchmarking is probably needed to gauge > which performs best. The original dentry implementation in the kernel did things per-directory and it sucked. The problem you run into is that you end up with recursive algorithms all over the place, which chew up and overflow the kernel stack. So it would be a regression to go to a per-directory type lookup data structure for dentries. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
