linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cramfs: generate unique inode number for better inode cache usage

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Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:51:36 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc:	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cramfs: generate unique inode number for better inode
 cache usage

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> I think Linus is after something like this:

That works for me, but I hate the double "switch()" statement checking
the same thing.

Why is the camino() function not just doing something like

 static unsigned int cramino(struct cramfs_inode *ino, unsigned int
dirent_offset)
 {
     unsigned int data_offset = ino->offset;
     return data_offset ? data_offset << 2 : dirent_offset+1;
 }

and we can get rid of all the cruddy CRAMINO_UNIQ() and testing of the
mode entirely for that path.

That, together with Pekka's approach seems nice, simple and clean.

                            Linus
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