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

Jens Axboe
2005-11-14T11:13:46Z

On Mon, Nov 14 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:20 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > 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?
>
> yes.

Not in mainline it hasn't.

Are there any recent benchmarks of 4kb vs 8kb stacks? Is anyone shipping
4kb stack kernels?

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Jens Axboe