Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 09:36:19 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>> About 4k stacks I was generally against them, much better to fail in
>> fork than to risk corruption. The per-irq stack part is great feature
>> instead (too bad it wasn't enabled for the safer 8k stacks).
>
> 8K stacks without IRQ stacks are not "safer" so I don't understand your
> comment ?

Hmm was it SuSE or RH kernels (or mainline?) I saw which had a test to
defer soft IRQs if they occurred too deep in the stack for the current
thread.

-Eric
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