Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758282Ab0FPKSO (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:18:14 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:39693 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753487Ab0FPKSN (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:18:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:21:36 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-32: remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS Message-ID: <20100616112136.42ab08ef@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100616091621.GA4486@lst.de> References: <20100616091621.GA4486@lst.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 17 On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:16:21 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > These days 4 kilobytes of stack just aren't enough for reliably operation, > and people using lots of threads have long switched to x86-64, so remove the > CONFIG_4KSTACKS option. It's very useful for things like debugging and because of the split kernel/irq stacks. It also seems to be quite adequate for most configurations. Perhaps XFS should select 8K stack instead ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/