Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] xs: use system's default stack size for xs_watch's reader thread

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wei Liu writes ("Re: [RFC PATCH] xs: use system's default stack size for 
xs_watch's reader thread"):
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 05:29:39PM -0400, Chris Patterson wrote:
> > Of course, the alternative is to bump it to another arbitrary value, but the
> > requirements may change depending on the application and its libraries that
> > are linking against xenstore.

Personally I think the libraries and applications that are putting big
structures into TLS are mad.  But I guess we have to live in the world
of madness.

> > [1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg03341.html
> > [2] 
> > https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-users/2016-07/msg00012.html
> > [3] 
> > https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-users/2016-07/msg00085.html
> > [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350264
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Patterson <pattersonc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'm tempted to just ack and apply this patch. If I hear no objection by
> Friday I will do so.

Can we please at least retain the ability for an application that
wants to make lots of threads, to set the stack size used by
libxenstore ?

I guess this would have to be a global function, callable by anyone
(even bypassing libxl).

Ian.

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