Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: About 4k kernel stack size.... | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:15:47 +0000 |
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On Llu, 2005-12-19 at 21:52 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > The mainline code paths are undoubtedly fine with 4K stacks. > It's the *error paths* that are most likely to go deeper on the stack, > and those are rarely exercised by anyone. And those are the paths > that we *really* need to be reliable.
Very few error paths are that deep, the obvious complex exception is the scsi one, but thats a seperate thread. Also the same argument about reliability is why going to 4K stack + IRQ stacks helps - it makes the stack usage predictable.
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