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

Horst von Brand
2005-12-24T02:22:28Z

Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:

[...]

> > "With some drawbacks" is the point: It has been determined that the
> > drawbacks are heavy enough that the 8KiB stack option should go.

> Determined by voodoo

Did you see them sticking needles into waxen stacks?

> and wild guessing.

More like long experience with the kernel, and sifting many, many bug
reports we've not looked over (and many we probably didn't see).
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