From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <499D62AA.5090000@domain.hid> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:46:18 +0000 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <499D359C.3060805@domain.hid> <499D3801.5040303@domain.hid> <499D3FE6.4030208@domain.hid> <499D5B0A.7020608@domain.hid> <499D5FC4.4030303@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <499D5FC4.4030303@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] XENO_OPT_SYS_STACKPOOLSZ vs. switchtest List-Id: "Xenomai life and development \(bug reports, patches, discussions\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: xenomai-core Jan Kiszka wrote: > Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >>>> Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>>> Hi Gilles, >>>>> >>>>> how much XENO_OPT_SYS_STACKPOOLSZ do I need to run switchtest for >>>>> default settings? At least on x86-64, the default 32K is not enough. >>>>> Unless we talk about GB ;), maybe it makes sense to adjust the default >>>>> size accordingly. >>>> It depends on the arguments you pass to switchtest. >>> None, ie. the default settings. >> Then 6 kernel-space tasks are created. Since switchtest is not the > > 6*4 is 20k... Ah, the well-known allocator overhead, I guess. Will try > with >= 40k. > >> average use of Xenomai, and is supposed to be used only for validating >> the context/FPU switches, I would not change XENO_OPT_SYS_STACKPOOL_SZ, >> maybe only add a clear message when creation of kernel-space tasks fails. > > Well, isn't the switchtest part of xeno-test? Would be unfortunate to > require a kernel rebuild just for running the standard tests. I think we > don't loose much by slightly increasing the stack to, say, 64K on 32 bit > and 128K on 64 bit archs. The kernel rebuild is already required since the switchtest driver is not compiled by default. -- Gilles.