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Re: x86: 4kstacks default

To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: x86: 4kstacks default
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:56:09 -0500
Cc: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@xxxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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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.

Rather than foisting this upon everyone, I'd rather see work put into
making stack size a boot parameter or something, so that people can
choose what's appropriate for their workload (or their IO stack, if you
prefer).

-Eric

> We all know that there once were problems, but if there are any left 
> they should be reported and fixed.
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Oliver
> 
> cu
> Adrian
> 


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