The following patch series aims to significantly reduce the stack foot print of the NFS client by dynamically allocating the struct nfs_fattr and struct nfs_fh. Cheers Trond Trond Myklebust (24): NFS: Add helper functions for allocating filehandles and fattr structs NFSv4: Eliminate nfs4_path_walk() NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_follow_mountpoint() NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_create_server NFSv4: Reduce the stack footprint of try_location() NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_lookup NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_follow_remote_path() NFSv4: Reduce stack footprint of nfs4_get_root() NFSv4: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs4_remote_referral_get_sb NFSv4: Reduce stack footprint of nfs4_proc_access() and nfs3_proc_access() NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_revalidate_inode() NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs3_proc_rename() and nfs4_proc_rename() NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_readdir() NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_link() NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs3_proc_readlink() NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_proc_remove() NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_rmdir NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_proc_create NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_proc_symlink() NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs4_proc_create() NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_setattr() NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_statfs() NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs3_proc_getacl() and nfs3_proc_setacl() NFS: Prevent the mount code from looping forever on broken exports fs/nfs/client.c | 54 ++++++++++--- fs/nfs/dir.c | 62 +++++++++++---- fs/nfs/getroot.c | 191 +++++++++++++++++------------------------------ fs/nfs/inode.c | 46 ++++++++++-- fs/nfs/internal.h | 4 +- fs/nfs/namespace.c | 20 ++++-- fs/nfs/nfs3acl.c | 23 ++++-- fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++++------------ fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c | 10 ++- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 81 ++++++++++++-------- fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/proc.c | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------- fs/nfs/super.c | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/nfs/unlink.c | 4 +- include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 14 ++++ include/linux/nfs_xdr.h | 2 +- 17 files changed, 566 insertions(+), 342 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html