Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:04:49 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: [STACK] >3k call path in reiserfs |
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Chris Mason wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 13:06, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > >>>No such luck, the real offender is having tree balance structs on the >>>stack. We need to switch to kmalloc for those, which will be mean some >>>extra work to make sure we don't schedule at the wrong time. >>> >>>In other words, not the trivial patch I was hoping for, but I'm cooking >>>one up. >>> >>> > > > >>Can you give me some background on whether this is causing real problems >>for real users? >> >> > >Especially with the 4k stack option enabled, it will cause real problems >for real users. A better change would be to cut down on the size of the >tree balance struct, but that would be more invasive. For starters we >might be able to switch from ints to shorts for some of the arrays. > >-chris > > > > > > Can you tell me about the "4k stack option"? - 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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