Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:42:38 -0700 | | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL and XFS on 4KSTACKS=n |
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:50:12PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 1. let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL
i don't like this change, despite what i might have claimed earlier :)
the reason i say this is if XFS blows up with 4K stacks then it probably can with 8K stacks but it will be much harder, so it's not really fixing anything but just papering over the problem
the reason for this is 8K stacks means you don't have separate irq stacks, so if and interrupt comes along at the right time and the codes paths are just right, you can still overflow (arguably you have less overall space than with 4K stacks and separate irq stacks)
that said, separate irq stacks *and* 8k thread stacks would be safe, but i'd love to see ideas on how to get the stack utilization down (it's actually really hard)
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