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

Pierre Ossman
2005-11-14T10:21:13Z

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> It seems most problems with 4k stacks are already resolved.
>
> I'd like to see this patch to always use 4k stacks in -mm now for
> finding any remaining problems before submitting this patch for 2.6.16.
>
>

Has the block layer been remade to a serial approach? Last time I
checked you could exhaust the stack fairly easy by layering a couple of
block subsystems on each other (usb+scsi+raid+lvm+xfs+nfs to make things
as horrible as possible).

Rgds
Pierre