Kernel thread stack usage

[Jeff Roberson]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Alexander Motin wrote:

> Alfred Perlstein ?????:
>> Not that I know of, but one could defer to queueing once the chain
>> gets to a certain length.
>
> It will not be accurate as different nodes have different stack usage and 
> also stack partially used (part may be significant) before packet entered 
> netgraph.

Does it really need to be that precise?  If you queue every 10 or 20 deep 
the queueing cost should be substantially amortized and it sounds like 
this is not a common condition anyway or the stack would already be 
overflowing with some workloads.

Jeff

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