Alan Cox wrote: >> About 4k stacks I was generally against them, much better to fail in >> fork than to risk corruption. The per-irq stack part is great feature >> instead (too bad it wasn't enabled for the safer 8k stacks). > > 8K stacks without IRQ stacks are not "safer" so I don't understand your > comment ?
Hmm was it SuSE or RH kernels (or mainline?) I saw which had a test to defer soft IRQs if they occurred too deep in the stack for the current thread. -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
