Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 06:48:32 EST


On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:26:42PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > If this still occurs for some
> > combinations then the fix would be 8K + 4K IRQ stack, not just to use 8K
> > stack
>
> Yes i've been thinking for some time doing that would be a good idea.

Yes, the non-irqstack case should definitively go away. And 8k
kernel stacks isn't that little given how much most 64bit architectures
have.
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