Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030288AbVLSIqD (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:46:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030290AbVLSIqD (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:46:03 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:39086 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030288AbVLSIqC (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:46:02 -0500 Subject: Re: Light-weight dynamically extended stacks From: Arjan van de Ven To: Matt Mackall Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20051219001249.GD11856@waste.org> References: <20051219001249.GD11856@waste.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:45:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1134981956.2947.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 16 > While we have a good handle on most of the worst stack offenders, we > can still run into trouble with pathological cases (say, symlink > recursion for XFS on a RAID built from loopback mounts over NFS > tunneled over IPSEC through GRE). So there's probably no > one-size-fits-all when it comes to stack size. this is pure conjecture at this time, not a fact. You post it as a fact here... Have you tried something like this to see the layers you add actually add 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/