Re: x86: 4kstacks default

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sun Apr 20 2008 - 08:33:19 EST


On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 02:27:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > 6k is known to work, and there aren't many problems known with 4k.
> >
> > And from a QA point of view the only way of getting 4k thoroughly tested
>
> But you have to first ask why do you want 4k tested? Does it serve
> any useful purpose in itself? I don't think so. Or you're saying
> it's important to support 50k kernel threads on 32bit kernels?

Small embedded systems like the space savings.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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