Re: About 4k kernel stack size....

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2005-12-19 at 21:52 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> The mainline code paths are undoubtedly fine with 4K stacks.
> It's the *error paths* that are most likely to go deeper on the stack,
> and those are rarely exercised by anyone.  And those are the paths
> that we *really* need to be reliable.

Very few error paths are that deep, the obvious complex exception is the
scsi one, but thats a seperate thread. Also the same argument about
reliability is why going to 4K stack + IRQ stacks helps - it makes the
stack usage predictable.

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