On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 07:09:10AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > New Revision: 326758 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/326758 > > > > Log: > > i386: Bump KSTACK_PAGES default to match amd64 > > > > Logically, extend r286288 to cover all threads, by default. > > > > The world has largely moved on from i386. Most FreeBSD users and > > developers ... > > This is a mistake, there is a huge world of i386 deployment, not all > the world needs, or even wants amd64, especially in the virtualization > world when you are running anything with less than 4G of memory, which > I would argue is a huge depolyement base. > > 64-bit code is simply wasteful on these platforms, and though maybe > software developers are ok with that waste, (smart) business people > are not.
Big +1. Most of my hw is 32-bit and I like it that way. It works fine, it helps to maintains/check sw sanity, and remains our default reference platform. > > ... test on amd64 hardware. Then they should start doing a better job and test on i386 (at least) as well. > For better or worse, we have written a non-trivial amount of kernel > code that relies on stacks larger than 8 kB, and it "just works" on > amd64, so there has been little incentive to shrink it. If the code is broken, it should be fixed. "Just works on amd64" is not a good enough excuse to deprecate^Wput quick "fixes" for i386 that did not undergo sufficient review. ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
