Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967949AbXEHFi2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 01:38:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967926AbXEHFiY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 01:38:24 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:56211 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967160AbXEHFiY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 01:38:24 -0400 Message-ID: <46400CD0.8050309@goop.org> Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 22:38:24 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Simon Arlott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Chinner Subject: Re: sleeping function called from invalid context at block/cfq-iosched.c (Was: Re: 2.6.21-mm1) References: <20070505014955.8f3990b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463E3C50.9080207@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20070506135403.a6785f7d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463FAF1C.8060500@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20070507162349.0790706f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463FB697.6060902@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20070507163335.f5f5ea6e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463FFD0A.2050708@goop.org> <20070507222409.2d597a86.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070507222409.2d597a86.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 24 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 07 May 2007 21:31:06 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> I've found that XFS+lvm+4k stacks is completely unusable with current >> kernels. I get hangs/oopes after ~10mins of work. >> > > Sounds like this is new behaviour? > > I wonder why. Same compiler version? > I've only recently started using xfs, so I couldn't say if its new behaviour. I did notice that it took a week or so for problems to set in; my theory is that as the filesystem got a bit aged, its datastructures got a bit more complex, and cause the kernel code to use more stack. But that's just a guess. J - 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/