Re: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL (fwd)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to see the patch below included in 2.6.8 .
> 
> I'm not seeing many (any) bug reports from this, and I'd generally prefer
> to keep people pushing down on the stack utilisation anyway.
> 
> So I'm disinclined to reduce 4k stacks' testing coverage...

There are still more than enough people with EXPERIMENTAL=y to give a 
decent testing coverage.

OTOH, at least XFS is known to have problems with 4kb stacks - and you 
don't want such problems to occur in production environments.

cu
Adrian

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