Re: [STACK] >3k call path in reiserfs

[Hans Reiser]

Chris Mason wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:31, Chris Mason wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:22, Jörn Engel wrote:
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> > > reiserfs has some stack-hungry functions as well.  Could you put them
> > > on a diet?
> > >
> > >      
> > Yes, we should be able to fix things by getting rid of some of the
> > inlines in a few spots (some funcs are much too large for inlining). 
> > I'll send a patch out this morning.
> >    
>
> No such luck, the real offender is having tree balance structs on the
> stack.  We need to switch to kmalloc for those, which will be mean some
> extra work to make sure we don't schedule at the wrong time.
>
> In other words, not the trivial patch I was hoping for, but I'm cooking
> one up.
>
> -chris
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Can you give me some background on whether this is causing real problems 
for real users?
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