Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/15] NFS: for localio don't call filesystem read() and write() routines directly

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On Wed, 12 Jun 2024, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Some filesystem writeback routines can end up taking up a lot of stack
> space (particularly xfs). Instead of risking running over due to the
> extra overhead from the NFS stack, we should just call these routines
> from a workqueue job.
> 

Do we really need this today?  Kernel stack is a lot bigger than it once
was.

If we do need it, do we need a dedicated workqueue?  Why not just use
system_unbound_wq ??

NeilBrown




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