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

[Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>]

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.

--
Jeffrey Hundstad

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