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

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:35:43AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:10:13PM -0800, David Miller 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...

... and patches sent in the past to remove layers from XFS have been
NAKed due to CXFS

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00166.html
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00167.html
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00168.html
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00171.html

Maybe IRIX is now sufficiently dead that the last argument doesn't
matter any more.
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