Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jun 2002 17:24:49 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86 |
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:13:42PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:31:52 -0400 > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:15:23PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote: > > Just what are the tasks you normally run - and how many code > > paths do you think there are out there which you do not run. XFS > > might get a bit stack hungry in places, we try to keep it down, > > but when you get into file system land things can stack up quickly: > > You already lose in that case today, as multiple irqs may come in > from devices and eat up the stack. > > I agree with Ben, if things explode due to stack overflow with his > changes they are almost certain to explode before his changes.
Just a "me too". I like Ben's patch, it seems like it is a sort of "bloat meter", if you overflow the stack that suggests something is wrong, and it isn't stack size. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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