[OpenAFS-devel] developer takeaways from EAKC 2014

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 03/31/2014 02:50 PM, Michael Meffie wrote:
> Thank you very much for these notes.
>
>> A few of us started looking at some linux panics due to stack overflow
>> (e.g., RT 131831) during one of the sessions.  We have a number of
>> routines that use more stack than they ought to.  Chas posted a script to
>> look at a build tree and pull out stack usage for the various functions,
>> to gerrit 10881.  I came away with the impression that Mike was going to
>> do some more work and submit patches to remove some more stack usage;
>> Mike, can you confirm this?
> Yes, specifically, I'm looking for places vrequests are on the stack
> and moving those to be on the heap. Then, I'll take a look at the functions
> we define as static and see if I can force those to stay out of line.
>
>> There are probably more things that didn't make it into my notes.  If you
>> remember any, please chime in.
> Perhaps it was in a hallway conversation, but I also remember something
> about our lack of doxygen comments. I pushed a patch to gerrit with
> a doxygen configuration and a makefile target to build the doxygen
> output.  That will make it easier for me, at least, to see the generated
> output and make improvements over time.
>
> It was an excellent conference. Thank you to everyone that ran it
> and participated.
>
> Best regards,
> Mike
>

FYI,
The new doxygen change is at
http://gerrit.openafs.org/#change,10970

I had an old doxygen attempt in
http://gerrit.openafs.org/#change,8128


Jason