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Message-Id: <200804280157.12736.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:57:12 +0200
From:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
Cc:	xfs@....sgi.com, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: reduce stack usage in xfs_bmap_btalloc()

On Monday 28 April 2008 01:40, David Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 04:51:02PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > This patch reduces xfs_bmap_btalloc() stack usage by 50 bytes
> > by moving part of its body into a helper function.
> 
> Can you please attach your patches inline, Denys (see
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches)?

I can, but Kmail is notorious for mangling them :(

Is it ok if I will paste them inline AND attach them too,
so that you get guaranteed-nonmangled one in attachment?

> I have a set of patches that introduces new functionality into the
> allocator (dynamic allocation policies) that reduces
> xfs_bmap_btalloc() function by 36 bytes (just by chance, I didn't
> design it for this purpose). It breaks it down on functional
> boundaries like Christoph's patch. I'm going to revist that patch
> w.r.t both these patches and see what falls out the bottom...

Nice to know that.

Can you point me to svn/CVS/git/whatever which holds latest xfs
devel tree?
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