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Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...>, Ray Lee <ray-lk@...>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, William Lee Irwin III <wli@...>, David Chinner <dgc@...>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>
Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:41 pm

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:15:39AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

How do you figure?

If you're saying that soft pages helps our 8k stack allocations, it
doesn't. The memory overhead of soft pages will be higher (5-15%,
mostly due to file tails in pagecache) than the level at which 8k
stacks currently run into trouble (1-2% free?).

Not helpful.

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Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any mo..., Matt Mackall, (Wed Jul 18, 8:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any mo..., William Lee Irwin III, (Tue Jul 17, 1:01 pm)
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