Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack

Christoph Lameter
2007-10-10T01:27:08Z

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > We already use 32k stacks on IA64. So the memory argument fail there.
>
> I'm talking about generic code.

The stack size is set in arch code not in generic code.

> > > The solution has until now always been to fix the problems so they don't
> > > use so much stack. Maybe a bigger stack is OK for you for 1024+ CPU
> > > systems, but I don't think you'd be able to make that assumption for most
> > > normal systems.
> >
> > Yes that is why I made the stack size configurable.
>
> Fine. I just don't see why you need this fallback.

So you would be ok with submitting the configurable stacksize patches
separately without the fallback?