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

[Arjan van de Ven]

> 
> how many other corner cases are there that these distros just choose not 
> to support, but need to be supported and tested for the vanilla kernel?

as someone who was at that distro in the time.. none other than XFS and
reiserfs4.

> also for those who are arguing that it's only dropping from 6k to 4k, you 
> are forgetting that the patches to move the interrupts to a seperate stack 
> have already gone into the kernel, so today it is really 8k+4k and the 
> talk is to move it to 4k+4k.

actually irq stacks aren't enabled with 8K stacks right now, so your
statement isn't correct.


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