Re: 2.6.19-rc6 : Spontaneous reboots, stack overflows - seems toimplicate xfs, scsi, networking, SMP

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Sun Nov 26 2006 - 09:32:00 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 04:35 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
I would even say 10 function calls deep to allocate file blocks
is overkill, but 22 it just astronomically bad.
Especially since a large part is due to cxfs...
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it's a bit sad to see XFS this crippled in linux due to an external,
proprietary module ;(


I understand that cxfs is a bit of a whipping-boy, but the stacks in question in this thread really don't have much if anything to do with the filesystem layering in xfs. They are deep callchains & large functions in core xfs code, it seems.

-Eric
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