Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

Mike Christie
2005-11-15T02:42:56Z

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:32:02PM -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
>
>>If you have stack problem with iscsi then you should post it to those
>>lists or send me a pointer offlist. There were problems with iscsi and
>>XFS but they should be fixed in mainline. The XFS + iscsi problems that
>>have been reported have not been stack usage problems though.
>
>
> That hasn't been very efficient last time. In any case, on the latest
> version I tried (0.4-408, I can't blow up the backup machine every
> other day):
>
> - iscsi-tape is incompatible with tg3 and works with e1000
>
> - iscsi-disk blows after a random time in what seems to be a (irq?)
> stack explosion on x86 but not on x86-64 (which iirc has bigger
> stacks). Seems to because the serial console blows too and only
> writes a handful of characters.
>

And these only occur with 4k stacks? Do you have the traces still?