Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:51:13 +0000 | From | "Dan Merillat" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...? |
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On 8/1/07, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> No, this does not use indefinite stack. > > loop will schedule each request to be handled by a kernel thread, so > requests to 'loop' are serialised, never stacked. > > In 2.6.22, generic_make_request detects and serialises recursive calls, > so unlimited recursion is not possible there either.
Is that saying "before 2.6.22, a read/write on a deeply layered device would use a lot of stack?" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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