From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6 : Spontaneous reboots, stack overflows - seems to implicate xfs, scsi, networking, SMP Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:47:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20061123064731.GB18567@parisc-linux.org> References: <9a8748490611211551v2ebe88fel2bcf25af004c338a@mail.gmail.com> <9a8748490611220458w4d94d953v21f7a29a9f1bdb72@mail.gmail.com> <20061123011809.GY37654165@melbourne.sgi.com> <20061122.201013.112290046.davem@davemloft.net> <20061123043543.GI3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , dgc@sgi.com, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, chatz@melbourne.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Al Viro Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061123043543.GI3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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.