From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:42:04 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86_64: Configure stack size In-Reply-To: <200711080012.06752.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20071107004357.233417373@sgi.com> <20071107004710.862876902@sgi.com> <20071107191453.GC5080@shadowen.org> <200711080012.06752.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andy Whitcroft , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, travis@sgi.com List-ID: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > 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. Well we cannot really test these systems without these patches and when they become officially available then its too late for merging. -- 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