From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266227AbUGTUun (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:50:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266263AbUGTUun (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:50:43 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:50420 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266227AbUGTUuj (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:50:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:50:31 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Steve Lord , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, nathans@sgi.com, Cahya Wirawan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL and XFS on 4KSTACKS=n Message-ID: <20040720205030.GO14733@fs.tum.de> References: <20040720114418.GH21918@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> <40FD0A61.1040503@xfs.org> <40FD2E99.20707@mnsu.edu> <20040720195012.GN14733@fs.tum.de> <20040720204238.GA3051@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040720204238.GA3051@taniwha.stupidest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:42:38PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > 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 >... 2.6 is a stable kernel series used in production environments. The correct solution is to fix XFS (and other problems with 4kb stacks if they occur), and my patch is only a short-term workaround. 4KSTACKS=n is simply the better tested case, and 4KSTACKS=y uncovers some issues you might not want to see in production environments. > --cw 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