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

From: Eric Sandeen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:31:29 -0600

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