Re: [PATCH 2/3] SUNRPC: traverse clients tree on PipeFS event

From: Stanislav Kinsbursky
Date: Thu Apr 26 2012 - 14:26:51 EST


26.04.2012 22:11, Myklebust, Trond ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐ:
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 18:19 +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:

+static int __rpc_pipefs_event(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, unsigned long event,
+ struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ int error;
+
+ if (!rpc_clnt_skip_event(clnt, event)) {
+ error = __rpc_clnt_handle_event(clnt, event, sb);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+ }
+ if (clnt != clnt->cl_parent)
+ return __rpc_pipefs_event(clnt->cl_parent, event, sb);
+ return 0;
+}
Hi Stanislav,

Recursion in the kernel is generally frowned upon due to the stack size
limits. Could you please rewrite the above into a simple loop. Something
along the lines of:

for(;;) {
...

if (clnt == clnt->cl_parent)
break;
clnt = clnt->cl_parent;
}


Hi, Trond.
Yes, sure, I can do this.
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