Re: 4k stacks in 2.6

From: hch
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 13:18:48 EST


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:57:05PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > do you realize that the 4K stacks feature also adds a separate softirq
> > and a separate hardirq stack? So the maximum footprint is 4K+4K+4K, with
>
> A nice combination would be 8K process stacks with separate irq stacks on
> i386.
>
> Any chance the CONFIGs for those two could be split?

Any reason not to enable interrupt stacks unconditionally and leave
the stack size choice to the user?

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