> By your logic though, XFS on x86 should work fine with 4K stacks - > many will attest that it does not and blows up due to stack issues. > > I have first hand experiences of things blowing up with deep call > chains when using 4K stacks where 8K worked just fine on same > workload. > > So there is definitely some other problem with 4K stacks. Nothing of the sort. If it blows up with a 4K stack it will almost certainly blow up with an 8K stack *eventually* - when a heavy stack usage coincides with a heavy stack using IRQ handler. You won't catch it in simple testing, you won't catch it in trivial simulation and it'll be incredibly hard to reproduce. Not the kind of bug you want in a production system really. IRQ stacks make things much more predictable. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
