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

Horst von Brand
2005-12-21T11:59:30Z

Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net> wrote:
> It's hard to believe all i386 people have a problem with 8K stacks. What
> you said may be a problem domain bound to a specific workload on i386
> with insane amounts of memory and fragmented LOWMEM. - These people can
> certainly use 4K stacks and no one is preventing that.

> But normal people with <=1Gb RAM and using i386 on desktop (I am sure
> there are many of them) may do OK with 8K stacks if they had a need to do
> so. (Like running ndiswrapper, or some other thing which requires bigger
> stacks for that matter.)

But those normal people are most of the users, running non-critical stuff,
and thus are /excellent/ guinea pigs for the "real world users" you
mentioned above ;-)

/me ducks and runs like all LKML is loose
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