On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Well we can now address the rarity. That is the whole point of the > > patchset. > > Introducing complexity to fight a very rare problem with a good > fallback (refusing to fork more tasks, as well as lumpy reclaim) > somehow does not seem like a good tradeoff.
The problem can become non-rare on special low memory machines doing wild swapping things though. > > It will be more common if the stack size is increased beyond 8k. > > Why would we want to do such a thing? Because NUMA requires more stack space. In particular support for very large cpu configurations of 16k may require 2k cpumasks on the stack. > 8kB stacks are large enough... For many things yes. I just want to have the compile time option to increase it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
