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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:13:42PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
>    Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:31:52 -0400
> 
>    On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:15:23PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
>    > Just what are the tasks you normally run - and how many code
>    > paths do you think there are out there which you do not run. XFS
>    > might get a bit stack hungry in places, we try to keep it down,
>    > but when you get into file system land things can stack up quickly:
>    
>    You already lose in that case today, as multiple irqs may come in 
>    from devices and eat up the stack.
> 
> I agree with Ben, if things explode due to stack overflow with his
> changes they are almost certain to explode before his changes.

Just a "me too".  I like Ben's patch, it seems like it is a sort of
"bloat meter", if you overflow the stack that suggests something is
wrong, and it isn't stack size.
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