netdev - Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: verbs: Avoid 1kb stack

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Date:	Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:09:36 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tom Tucker <tom@....us>, steved@...hat.com,
	Tom Talpey <ttalpey@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: verbs: Avoid 1kb stack

On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 09:46 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 11:41:36AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 16 * 64 is a bit much.
> > Use kmalloc_array instead.
> 
> I thought there was some reason we didn't do this.
> 
> Grepping up through the callers....  It looks like the result is
> xprt_rdma_send_request returns -EIO, and as far as I can tell that gets
> passed up to the application on the client.   That doesn't sound right.

No worries, it was just a warning I noticed when I
did an allmodconfig compilation.

Perhaps a comment there might be appropriate instead.


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