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SubjectRe: x86: 4kstacks default
Adrian Bunk wrote:

> But the more users will get 4k stacks the more testing we have, and the
> better both existing and new bugs get shaken out.
>
> And if there were only 4k stacks in the vanilla kernel, and therefore
> all people on i386 testing -rc kernels would get it, that would give a
> better chance of finding stack regressions before they get into a
> stable kernel.

Heck, maybe you should make it 2k by default in all -rc kernels; that
way when people run -final with the 4k it'll be 100% bulletproof, right?
'cause all those piggy drivers that blow a 2k stack will finally have
to get fixed? Or leave it at 2k and find a way to share pages for
stacks, think how much memory you could save and how many java threads
you could run!

4K just happens to be the page size; other than that it's really just
some random/magic number picked, and now dictated that if you (and
everyting around you) doesn't fit, you're broken.

That bugs me.

-Eric

(yes, I know there are advantages to only allocating a single page for a
new thread, but from an "all callchains after that must fit in that
space" perspective, it's just a randomly picked number)


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