Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

[Alexander Nyberg]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:40:54PM +1000 Neil Brown wrote:

> On Friday September 2, nathans@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:33:56PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:39:15AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 4Kb kernel stacks are the future on i386, and it seems the problems
> > > > it initially caused are now sorted out.
> > > 
> > > Not entirely.
> > > 
> > > XFS when mixed with raid/lvm/nfs still blows up.  It's probably not
> > > alone in this respect but worse than ext2/3.
> > 
> > To clarify, you mean AND not OR (/) there -- in other words,
> > raid[+raid]+dm[+dm]+xfs+nfs can be fatal, yes.
> 
> It should be reasonably simple to remove this problem of stacked
> drivers.
> There really isn't any need for md and dm (or md and md or ..) to use
> the stack and the same time.
> 

Sorry to bump in so late - but there seems to be a reporter who is
suffering from these issues now:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5210
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