From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264833AbUHCArq (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:47:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264850AbUHCArq (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:47:46 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:8438 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264750AbUHCApM (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:45:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 02:45:09 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL (fwd) Message-ID: <20040803004509.GW2746@fs.tum.de> References: <20040802225951.GR2746@fs.tum.de> <20040802162846.3929e463.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040802162846.3929e463.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > I'd like to see the patch below included in 2.6.8 . > > I'm not seeing many (any) bug reports from this, and I'd generally prefer > to keep people pushing down on the stack utilisation anyway. > > So I'm disinclined to reduce 4k stacks' testing coverage... There are still more than enough people with EXPERIMENTAL=y to give a decent testing coverage. OTOH, at least XFS is known to have problems with 4kb stacks - and you don't want such problems to occur in production environments. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed