Re: [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option

[Martin J. Bligh]

--Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (on Friday, September 10, 2004 10:14:11 +0100):

> On Gwe, 2004-09-10 at 07:40, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> Well I always assumed the future plan was to remove 8k stacks entirely;
>> 4k+irqstacks and 8k basically have near comparable stack space, with
>> this patch you create an option that has more but that is/should be
>> deprecated. I'm not convinced that's a good idea.
> 
> Its probably appropriate to drop gcc 2.x support at that point too since
> it's the major cause of remaining problems

What problems does it cause? 2.95.4 still seems to work fine for me.

I agree about killing anything but 4K stacks though - having the single
page is very compelling - not only can we allocate it easier, but we can
also use cache-hot pages from the hot list.

M.

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