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

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> the same as 2.4 effectively. 2.6 also has (and I wish it becomes "had"
> soon) an option to get 6Kb effective stack space instead. This is an
> increase of 2Kb compared to 2.4.

It has been asked couple of times before in this context and no one cared to
answer:

Using 4k stacks may have advantages, but what compelling reasons are there
to drop the choice of 4k/8k stacks? You can make 4k stacks default, but why
throw away the option of 8k stacks, especially since the impact of this
option on the kernel implementation is very little?

Giri

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