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

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 13:18:30 EST


Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> 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.

Perhaps the "8 KB softpage" should be an option instead
of 8 KB stack size?

Not sure about ABI compatibility.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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