Message-Id: <200512202208.jBKM87PK004603@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
To: kernel-stuff@comcast.net (Parag Warudkar)
cc: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>,
       Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
       Dumitru Ciobarcianu <Dumitru.Ciobarcianu@iNES.RO>,
       Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
       akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks 
In-Reply-To: Message from kernel-stuff@comcast.net (Parag Warudkar) 
   of "Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:53:43 -0000." <122020051953.9002.43A861470004E9E70000232A220702095300009A9B9CD3040A029D0A05@comcast.net> 
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:08:07 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net> wrote:
> It's hard to believe all i386 people have a problem with 8K stacks. What
> you said may be a problem domain bound to a specific workload on i386
> with insane amounts of memory and fragmented LOWMEM. - These people can
> certainly use 4K stacks and no one is preventing that.

> But normal people with <=1Gb RAM and using i386 on desktop (I am sure
> there are many of them) may do OK with 8K stacks if they had a need to do
> so. (Like running ndiswrapper, or some other thing which requires bigger
> stacks for that matter.)

But those normal people are most of the users, running non-critical stuff,
and thus are /excellent/ guinea pigs for the "real world users" you
mentioned above ;-)

/me ducks and runs like all LKML is loose
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