Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

David Chinner
2007-07-12T06:38:18Z

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:08:36PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >One of the big problem spots was XFS, but that got some stack usage
> >fixes recently, and the 4K stack option has been around for quite a
> >while now, so people really should have gotten around to fixing any
> >code that can't handle it. Are there still any big problem areas
> >remaining?
> >
>
> I get frequent crashes when I use 4k stacks with XFS+lvm, using recent
> kernels. When did XFS stack use reductions go in?

February. They were fixes for gcc4.x stack usage regressions (i.e. a ~25%
increase) over gcc 3.3.5. They were not new stack reduction patches....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group