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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/i386



On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:38:39PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> dyoung%pobox.com@localhost said:
> >  was setting pba_sub = 255 causing material problems for someone, or
> > are you concerned that lossage will eventually occur on certain
> > server-class machines?
> 
> No, this wasn't causing damage. I was tracking another problem which
> was incidentally triggered by another of your changes -- increased
> stack use lead to stack overflow on amd64 with a deep PCI hierarchy
> (a MicroTCA system).

Tell me more about this.

> Just stumbled over this. But it is obviously wrong. If you think
> it should be in the public tree there should be at least a big fat
> comment telling that it is for testing purposes and nothing uses
> it really and it will be removed before it can cause damage.

It does belong in the public tree.  Please revert the reversion.  I will
add a big, fat comment.

Dave

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