From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86_64: Configure stack size Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:12:06 +0100 References: <20071107004357.233417373@sgi.com> <20071107004710.862876902@sgi.com> <20071107191453.GC5080@shadowen.org> In-Reply-To: <20071107191453.GC5080@shadowen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711080012.06752.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: clameter@sgi.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, travis@sgi.com List-ID: > We seem to be growing two different mechanisms here for 32bit and 64bit. > This does seem a better option than that in 32bit CONFIG_4KSTACKS etc. > IMO when these two merge we should consolidate on this version. Best would be to not change it at all for 64bit for now. We can worry about the 16k CPU systems when they appear, but shorter term it would just lead to other crappy kernel code relying on large stacks when it shouldn't. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org