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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-32: remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:46:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C18AB9F.2020305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100616102307.GU20317@bombadil.infradead.org>

On 06/16/2010 12:23 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:20:51PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> Perhaps XFS should select 8K stack instead ?
>>
>> or rather !CONFIG_INSANE.  I don't care too much.  No one sane should
>> ever enable it anymore, but Ingo asked me to send a patch to remove it.
>>
> 
> Alan--
> 
> It's not just XFS, we were regularly seeing blown stacks on Fedora with
> ext3/4 and encrypted disks using dm-crypt...

Can you point me to report where 4k stacks is not enough for plain dm-crypt?
IIRC it was always XFS (maybe ext4) on top of it what caused problem...

(Anyway, removing 4k stacks is probably good thing:-)

Milan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-16 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-16  9:16 [PATCH] x86-32: remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-16 10:21 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-16 10:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-16 10:23     ` Kyle McMartin
2010-06-16 10:46       ` Milan Broz [this message]
2010-06-16 10:49         ` Kyle McMartin

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