Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

From: Jeffrey Hundstad
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 15:02:41 EST


Sander wrote:

Arjan van de Ven wrote (ao):


how many other corner cases are there that these distros just choose
not to support, but need to be supported and tested for the vanilla
kernel?


as someone who was at that distro in the time.. none other than XFS
and reiserfs4.



FWIW, I have a few servers and my workstation running Reiser4 and
CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y for several months now, and haven't encountered
problems yet. One server also runs Reiser4 on top op lvm2, and another
Reiser4 on top of sw raid1.

I know -mm + Reiser4 + 4kstacks is bleeding edge in more than one way,
but I like that for my workstations and the servers are
test/non-critical.

All systems do have real-life load though. I'd be happy to provide data
from these systems. Just mail me the commands.




I would like to add to this. I've been using XFS+LVM+SCSI in a 14,000+ user University email server with 4k stacks since it became available. I didn't even have problems BEFORE the XFS stuff was stack-dieted. I would also be happy to provide more data.

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Jeffrey Hundstad

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