Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

Zan Lynx
2007-07-11T17:54:27Z

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if it's time to make 4K stacks the default and to start
> considering removing the 8K stack option alltogether soon?
>
> One of the big problem spots was XFS, but that got some stack usage
> fixes recently, and the 4K stack option has been around for quite a
> while now, so people really should have gotten around to fixing any
> code that can't handle it. Are there still any big problem areas
> remaining?
>
Has anyone fixed the infrequent crashes with 4K stacks and ext3 -> LVM
snapshot -> LVM -> DM mirror -> libata?

The latest (as of 150 days ago) Fedora 6 32-bit kernels crashed every
week or two, the 64-bit kernel, which I believe uses 8K stacks, has been
up 150 days.