Re: Fwd: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Dec 16 2005 - 14:57:51 EST


On Gwe, 2005-12-16 at 12:17 -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Any chance that IRQ stacks could be made available with 8K? Set
> default to 4K but expose the _option_ for choice of 8K+IRQ stacks? I
> realize it takes away from the fanatical push toward imposed 4K purity
> but Linux is really all about options.

That would just encourage people to be sloppy with their stack usage and
make the problem worse.

Alan

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