What are the thoughts on using 4KB kernel stacks on dom0''s and domU''s. Regards, Ted _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> What are the thoughts on using 4KB kernel stacks on dom0''s and domU''s.I''ve never played wih the default. I''d be interested to hear how you get on. Thanks, Ian _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On 01/10/05, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:> > What are the thoughts on using 4KB kernel stacks on dom0''s and domU''s. > > I''ve never played wih the default. I''d be interested to hear how you get > on.I''ve used 4k kernel stacks on xen with no problems. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 18:12 +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote:> On 01/10/05, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > What are the thoughts on using 4KB kernel stacks on dom0''s and domU''s. > > > > I''ve never played wih the default. I''d be interested to hear how you get > > on. > > I''ve used 4k kernel stacks on xen with no problems. >Appears that 4k stacks on recent changeset''s is the root of my problem bringing snmp guests on line. I switched to 8k kernel stacks and now I have no more problem bringing up smp guests. Is testing with 4k and 8k stacks part of the test suite? I may be being ignorant here (very likely, hehe), but the changes to irq handling must have some kind of ramification. Regards, Ted _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> Appears that 4k stacks on recent changeset''s is the root of > my problem bringing snmp guests on line. I switched to 8k > kernel stacks and now I have no more problem bringing up smp guests. > > Is testing with 4k and 8k stacks part of the test suite?Not currently, but since they''re becoming default on 2.6.13 we''ll update our configs acordingly.> I may be being ignorant here (very likely, hehe), but the > changes to irq handling must have some kind of ramification.That''s not the first place I''d look... Ian _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel