Heads-up: Possible regression between 10.0-RELEASE and 10.1-BETA1 with '/ on ZFS' setup

Konstantin Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 17:46:07 UTC 2014


On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 10:03:48AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > If we cannot increase KSTACK_PAGES by default, do we have any
> > alternative solution outside of suggesting to avoid using ZFS on i386
> > with more than one disk?
> 
> When zfs creates its kthreads it can specify how much stack it needs.  For 
> i386 it could ask for more for the zfs threads.  Its not a good option but its 
> better than more stack for everything when it's already easy to run out 
> without zfs.

This one probably happens in the init thread, not some of the zfs hord.
Glen did not show the backtrace from ddb yet (I hope that ddb did not
regressed and can step over double-fault boundary).

We could specifically increment the init thread stack size as well, but
I have no idea if normal VFS calls into ZFS are affected and cause overflow
for the normal threads after the multitasking is fired.


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