Re: How to safely reduce stack usage in nfs code?

[Trond Myklebust]

fr den 29.10.2004 Klokka 11:01 (+0200) skreiv Arjan van de Ven:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 00:20 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> > I can convert these into kmalloc'ed variants but hesitate to do so
> > because of possible 'need to kmalloc in order to free memory for kmalloc'
> > deadlocks.
> 
> how about a memory pool?
> 
> It's not THE solution but I suspect the depth of callchains of these isn't too deep so it would work

I can't see that any of the callchains Denis listed can deadlock. None
of them appear to lie in the memory reclaim paths.

Cheers,
  Trond

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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>

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