Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K

[Richard Weinberger]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So I'm not in fact arguing against Minchan's patch of upping
> THREAD_SIZE_ORDER to 2 on x86-64, but at the same time stack size does
> remain one of my "we really need to be careful" issues, so while I am
> basically planning on applying that patch, I _also_ want to make sure
> that we fix the problems we do see and not just paper them over.
>
> The 8kB stack has been somewhat restrictive and painful for a while,
> and I'm ok with admitting that it is just getting _too_ damn painful,
> but I don't want to just give up entirely when we have a known deep
> stack case.

If we raise the stack size on x86_64 to 16k, what about i386?
Beside of the fact that most of you consider 32bits as dead and must die... ;)

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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