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

Mike Snitzer
2005-12-16T17:17:26Z

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 16, 2005 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On 12/16/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:10 +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> > El Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:00:13 -0800,
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> escribió:
> >
> >
> > > Supporting 8k stacks is a small amount of code and nobody has seen a need
> > > to make changes in there for quite a long time. So there's little cost to
> > > keeping the existing code.
> > >
> > > And the existing code is useful:
> >
> > Maybe this slighty different approach is better?
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
>
>
> I like this one; it makes the default 4K while leaving the 8K option for
> those who really want it...
>
> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

Any chance that IRQ stacks could be made available with 8K? Set
default to 4K but expose the _option_ for choice of 8K+IRQ stacks? I
realize it takes away from the fanatical push toward imposed 4K purity
but Linux is really all about options.