linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dont insert pipe dentries into dentry

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Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:40:09 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dont insert pipe dentries into dentry_hashtable.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:36:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The DCACHE_UNHASHED games seem hacky.
> 
> Would it be cleaner to define a new dentry.d_flags bit which can be used to
> indicate that this is a hashing-not-needed dentry, and to handle that over
> in dcache.c?

Much more invasive change, actually, and on fairly hot paths.
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