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Re: JFFS2 eats memory
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 03:10, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 17:15 +0200, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> > At this point I'm just trying to find a fix that is correct.
>
> Well yes, but this _is_ a performance optimisation you're doing :)
Granted.
> > > Can't you adjust gc_node instead?
> >
> > I don't know.
> >
> > What should I adjust it to?
>
> gc_node is the next node to be garbage-collected. We don't need to
> garbage-collect nodes which are already obsolete. So if you're freeing
> the object which is currently pointed to by jeb->gc_node, you can just
> make gc_node point to the next_phys node which you're _not_ freeing.
What if gc_node points to the last node?
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