Re: [PATCH 17/39] NLKD/i386 - core adjustments

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:04:58AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> 09.11.05 20:00:17 >>>
> >On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:11:51PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> The core i386 NLKD adjustments to pre-existing code.
> >> 
> >> Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> 
> >> (actual patch attached)
> >
> >If your code doesn't work with 4k stacks you have a problem because
> >8k stacks will soon be removed (my goal is 2.6.16, perhaps one or two
> 
> >releases later).
> 
> It's not that it doesn't work with them, but chances of stack overflow
> are too high for my taste.

If there's a chance of a stack overflow the stack usage has to be 
reduced until the chance goes down to 0.

> Jan

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Adrian

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