Hello, Vivek. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 06:07:45PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Here is one quick and dirty proof of concept patch. It checks for stack > depth and if remaining space is less than 20% of stack size, then it > defers the bio submission to per queue worker. So, it removes breadth-first walking of bio construction by ensuring stack overflow never happens by bouncing to workqueue if stack usage seems too high. I do like removal of breadth-first walking. It makes failure scenarios a lot less mind-bending. That said, Kent is right that this can incur significant overhead for certain configurations, and looking at stack usage in block layer is rather nasty both in design and implementation. If we're gonna need rescuer anyway and can get it right and the mechanism can be contained in block proper relatively well, I think it would be better to make bread-first walking safe. Both are nasty in their own ways after all. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
