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

Eric Sandeen
2006-11-26T14:31:36Z

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