Re: [PATCH] Reduce stack usage in acct.c

[Randy.Dunlap]

Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Wed, 30 March 2005 23:39:40 -0800, Yum Rayan wrote:
>
> > Before patch
> > ------------
> > check_free_space - 128
> > do_acct_process - 105
> >
> > After patch
> > -----------
> > check_free_space - 36
> > do_acct_process - 44
>
>
> It is always nice to see enthusiams, but in your case it might be a
> bit misguided.  None of the functions you worked on appear to be real
> problems wrt. stack usage.

Yes, this is similar to what I was about to write.
It would be more useful to tackle the really large stack consumers
or ones in deep call chains.

> But if you have time to tackle some of these functions, that may make
> a real difference:
>
> http://wh.fh-wedel.de/~joern/stackcheck.2.6.11
>
> In principle, all recursive paths should consume as little stack as
> possible.  Or the recursion itself could be avoided, even better.  And
> some of the call chains with ~3k of stack consumption may be
> problematic on other platforms, like the x86-64.  Taking care of those
> could result in smaller stacks for the respective platform.

Here is 2.6.12-rc1-bk3 raw checkstack output on x86-64:
http://developer.osdl.org/~rddunlap/doc/checkstack1.out

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~Randy
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