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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/9] vfs: split __lookup_hash
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 01:56:40PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
>
> Split __lookup_hash into two component functions:
>
> lookup_dcache - tries cached lookup, returns whether real lookup is needed
> lookup_real - calls i_op->lookup
>
> This eliminates code duplication between d_alloc_and_lookup() and
> d_inode_lookup().

The return value from lookup_dcache is a bit confusing. What about
returning the need_lookup flag, and passing the dentry as a parameter,
that way the callers would do the more obvious:

if (lookup_dcache(name, base, nd, &dentry))
return dentry;

instead of having to check two conditions.



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