From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261297AbVFGVrp (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:47:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261981AbVFGVrp (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:47:45 -0400 Received: from mailfe05.swip.net ([212.247.154.129]:42375 "EHLO swip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261297AbVFGVrn (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:47:43 -0400 X-T2-Posting-ID: jLUmkBjoqvly7NM6d2gdCg== Subject: Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS From: Alexander Nyberg To: Adrian Bunk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20050607212706.GB7962@stusta.de> References: <20050607212706.GB7962@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 23:47:38 +0200 Message-Id: <1118180858.956.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org tis 2005-06-07 klockan 23:27 +0200 skrev Adrian Bunk: > 4Kb kernel stacks are the future on i386, and it seems the problems it > initially caused are now sorted out. > > I'd like to: > - get a patch into the next -mm that unconditionally enables 4KSTACKS > - if there won't be new reports of breakages, send a patch to > completely remove !4KSTACKS for 2.6.13 or 2.6.14 > Combinations of IDE/SCSI with MD/DM (maybe even stacking them ontop of eachother), NFS and a filesystem in there breaks 4KSTACKS which is a known issue so you can't just remove it leaving users with no choice. This was not even difficult to trigger a while ago and I haven't seen any stack reduction patches in these areas.