Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756958AbWKWGre (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:47:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756928AbWKWGrd (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:47:33 -0500 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:33160 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756169AbWKWGrc (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:47:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:47:31 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Al Viro Cc: David Miller , dgc@sgi.com, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, chatz@melbourne.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6 : Spontaneous reboots, stack overflows - seems to implicate xfs, scsi, networking, SMP Message-ID: <20061123064731.GB18567@parisc-linux.org> References: <9a8748490611211551v2ebe88fel2bcf25af004c338a@mail.gmail.com> <9a8748490611220458w4d94d953v21f7a29a9f1bdb72@mail.gmail.com> <20061123011809.GY37654165@melbourne.sgi.com> <20061122.201013.112290046.davem@davemloft.net> <20061123043543.GI3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061123043543.GI3078@ftp.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 928 Lines: 22 On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:35:43AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:10:13PM -0800, David Miller 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... ... and patches sent in the past to remove layers from XFS have been NAKed due to CXFS http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00166.html http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00167.html http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00168.html http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-08/msg00171.html Maybe IRIX is now sufficiently dead that the last argument doesn't matter any more. - 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/