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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: x86: 4kstacks default
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:
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> 6k is known to work, and there aren't many problems known with 4k.
>
> And from a QA point of view the only way of getting 4k thoroughly tested 

But you have to first ask why do you want 4k tested? Does it serve
any useful purpose in itself? I don't think so. Or you're saying
it's important to support 50k kernel threads on 32bit kernels?

-Andi