On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:48:17AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > ... > I don't understand why you want to backout that. It changed nothing for > amd64. An i386 is still vulnerable to double faults just because of a > network packet processing path can overflow kstack for the GENERIC kernel.
The reason (or shall I say concern) was raised by kib@, as quoted: > Plain workstation use, like X11+browser+editor+some other programs easily > allocates 1000+ threads. It was still possible to use 32bit x86 for that, > of course in max memory config without PAE, and without ZFS. Add some > load that involves network, for instance torrent client, to establish the > pressure on KVA. > I am almost sure that users would get troubles now. I'm a plain workstation user with X11+browser+torrent+quake2+you-name-it apps, PAE-less, ZFS-less, and I don't want to get troubles due to r326758. ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
