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

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Message-ID: <469D5D2A.9000506@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:22:02 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
CC:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

On 07/18/2007 01:39 AM, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On 17/07/07, William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com> wrote:

>> At hch's suggestion I rewrote the separate IRQ stack configurability
>> patch into one making IRQ stacks mandatory and unconfigurable, and
>> hence enabled with 8K stacks.
>>
> For what it's worth, that sounds good to me - like something that we
> would want merged.

Yes, seperate IRQ stacks make eminent sense in their own right.

Andrea Arcangeli's current thread on soft pages:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/6/346

is also interesting though in the context of 1-page stacks.

Rene.

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