linux-kernel - Re: x86: 4kstacks default

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Message-ID: <87abjobvc7.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:48:40 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: x86: 4kstacks default

Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net> writes:

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 04:35:31PM +0200, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>>> ...
>>> with the older kernel is typical: xfs+nfs+4k stack(+lvm)
>> 
>> Does anyone still experience problems with 2.6.25?
>
> There are always problems.  You can always come up with something that
> will crash in 4k, IMHO.

But what are a few crashes compared against the ability to run 50000
kernel threads on a 32bit machine? Something has to give in the aim
for useless checkbox numbers after all. 

-Andi
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