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

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

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...
> > -
>
> 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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