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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: bcrl@redhat.com, lord@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 17:24:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020605172449.K2938@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020604225539.F9111@redhat.com> <1023315323.17160.522.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> <20020605183152.H4697@redhat.com> <20020605.161342.71552259.davem@redhat.com>

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 

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-06  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-05  2:55 [RFC] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86 Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-05 15:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-05 18:43   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-05 18:53     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-05 21:07       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-05 22:15 ` Steve Lord
2002-06-05 22:31   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-05 23:13     ` David S. Miller
2002-06-06  0:24       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2002-06-06  1:15       ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-02 15:52         ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-09 18:50           ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-06  1:42         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-06  2:30           ` Stephen Lord
     [not found] <20020604225539.F9111@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206050820100.2941-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20020605144357.A4697@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-06-05 20:40     ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-05 20:55       ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-06 13:32 Ulrich Weigand
     [not found] <mailman.1023370621.16639.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-06-06 17:37 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-06-07  1:06   ` David S. Miller
2002-06-06 19:24 Ulrich Weigand
     [not found] <OF70FD985F.A9C66B00-ONC1256BD0.0069C993@de.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-06-06 19:49 ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-06 20:27   ` David Mosberger
2002-06-07 11:28   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-06-06 20:55 Ulrich Weigand
2002-06-06 21:19 ` David Mosberger
2002-06-06 22:10   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-06-07  0:59   ` William Lee Irwin III

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