Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [CFT][PATCH] Re: Fwd: Re: memory usage - dentry_cache | From | Yoann Vandoorselaere <> | Date | 12 Apr 2001 14:43:05 +0200 |
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Marcin Kowalski <kowalski@datrix.co.za> writes:
> Hi > > Regarding the patch .... > > I don't have experience with the linux kernel internals but could this patch > not lead to a run-loop condition as the only thing that can break our of the > for(;;) loop is the tmp==&dentry_unused statement. So if the required number > of dentries does not exist and this condition is not satisfied we would have > an infinate loop... sorry if this is a silly question.
AFAICT no because of the list_del_init(tmp) call : When the list will be empty, tmp will be equal to dentry_unused.prev (this is a circular list).
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