Re: [PATCH] x86-32: remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:16:21 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> These days 4 kilobytes of stack just aren't enough for reliably operation,
> and people using lots of threads have long switched to x86-64, so remove the
> CONFIG_4KSTACKS option.

It's very useful for things like debugging and because of the split
kernel/irq stacks. It also seems to be quite adequate for most
configurations.

Perhaps XFS should select 8K stack instead ?
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