Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:07:22 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] reduce NFS stack usage |
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Steve Dickson wrote: > Hey Jeff, > > Question: > Why are only nfs_lookup_revalidate() and nfs_readdir() > a problem and not the other 4 ops (like nfs_lookup())? > Is the case only those two showed up in the stack overflow > oops trace?
You guessed it... I'm sure other routines are problematic, but those were two that showed up in traces.
> Also, not like there much choice in matter, but I wonder what > type of performance hit (if any) there will be by making > these routines call kmalloc()... lookups and readdirs are > pretty popular ops...
Sure. I wasn't suggesting by any means my patch is the ultimate solution :) Creating a slab cache would be easy enough...
Jeff
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