From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264965AbUFGSDD (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:03:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264964AbUFGSAw (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:00:52 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:57094 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264966AbUFGSAC (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:00:02 -0400 Message-ID: <40C4B09B.406@techsource.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 14:14:51 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= CC: Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4k stacks in 2.6 References: <20040525211522.GF29378@dualathlon.random> <20040526103303.GA7008@elte.hu> <20040526125014.GE12142@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040526125300.GA18028@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040526130047.GF12142@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> In-Reply-To: <20040526130047.GF12142@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jörn Engel wrote: > But I'll shut up now and see if I can generate better data over the > weekend. -test11 still had fun stuff like 3k stack consumption over > some code paths in a pretty minimal kernel. Wonder what 2.6.6 will do > with allyesconfig. ;) That gave me an idea. Sometimes in chip design, we 'overconstrain' the logic synthesizer, because static timing analyzers often produce inaccurate results. Anyhow, what if we were to go to 4K stacks but in static code analysis, flag anything which uses more than 2K or even 1K?