2005-12-16 17:17:26

by Mike Snitzer

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Subject: Fwd: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

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From: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
Date: Dec 16, 2005 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks
To: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Diego Calleja <[email protected]>, Andrew Morton <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected]



On 12/16/05, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:10 +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> > El Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:00:13 -0800,
> > Andrew Morton <[email protected]> escribi?:
> >
> >
> > > Supporting 8k stacks is a small amount of code and nobody has seen a need
> > > to make changes in there for quite a long time. So there's little cost to
> > > keeping the existing code.
> > >
> > > And the existing code is useful:
> >
> > Maybe this slighty different approach is better?
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <[email protected]>
>
>
> I like this one; it makes the default 4K while leaving the 8K option for
> those who really want it...
>
> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>

Any chance that IRQ stacks could be made available with 8K? Set
default to 4K but expose the _option_ for choice of 8K+IRQ stacks? I
realize it takes away from the fanatical push toward imposed 4K purity
but Linux is really all about options.


2005-12-16 19:58:47

by Alan

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Subject: Re: Fwd: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

On Gwe, 2005-12-16 at 12:17 -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Any chance that IRQ stacks could be made available with 8K? Set
> default to 4K but expose the _option_ for choice of 8K+IRQ stacks? I
> realize it takes away from the fanatical push toward imposed 4K purity
> but Linux is really all about options.

That would just encourage people to be sloppy with their stack usage and
make the problem worse.

Alan