From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STACK] >3k call path in reiserfs
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:15:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086801345.10973.263.camel@watt.suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C74388.20301@namesys.com>
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 13:06, Hans Reiser wrote:
> >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.
> >
> Can you give me some background on whether this is causing real problems
> for real users?
Especially with the 4k stack option enabled, it will cause real problems
for real users. A better change would be to cut down on the size of the
tree balance struct, but that would be more invasive. For starters we
might be able to switch from ints to shorts for some of the arrays.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-09 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-09 12:22 [STACK] >3k call path in reiserfs Jörn Engel
2004-06-09 12:31 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-09 16:53 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-09 17:06 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-09 17:15 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2004-06-09 18:04 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-09 18:20 ` Dave Jones
2004-06-09 23:40 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-10 22:35 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-11 2:49 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-11 7:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-11 13:46 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-11 16:32 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-11 16:50 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-11 17:08 ` Paul Wagland
2004-06-11 17:46 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-11 18:07 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-11 14:31 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-11 14:42 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-09 17:28 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-09 18:09 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-09 18:34 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-09 23:42 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-11 13:49 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-11 16:34 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-09 18:48 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-09 18:53 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-09 23:44 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-10 9:08 ` Vladimir Saveliev
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