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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx()
Date: 23 Mar 2008 20:15:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7896ylv.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E6A5FD.6060407@cosmosbay.com>

Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> writes:
> 
> What we call 4K stacks is in fact 4K - sizeof(struct task_struct), so

Actually it is 4K - sizeof(struct thread_struct). 

> a litle bit more than 2K. (not counting some insane configuration were
> struct task_struct take 3.5 KB, see CONFIG_LATENCYTOP for an example)

thread_struct significantly smaller than task_struct

That said I agree that 4K stack is too tight for many things
and in general dangerous.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-23 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21 18:51 [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx() Eric Dumazet
2008-02-21 20:14 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-02-21 23:19   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-02-22 10:19     ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-02-27  2:21 ` David Miller
2008-02-27  7:20   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-27  7:23     ` David Miller
2008-02-27  7:34       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-01 10:26   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-04  4:55     ` David Miller
2008-03-04  5:15       ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-03-04  6:27       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-23 10:29     ` David Miller
2008-03-23 18:48       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-23 19:15         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-03-29  1:36         ` David Miller
2008-03-29  8:18           ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-29 23:54             ` David Miller
2008-03-31  6:38               ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-31  9:48         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-31 10:01           ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-31 10:12             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-01  9:19               ` Eric Dumazet
2008-04-03 14:06                 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-03 16:19                   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-31 10:08           ` David Miller
2008-03-31 10:44             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-31 11:02               ` David Miller
2008-03-31 11:36                 ` poor network loopback performance and scalability (was: Re: [RFC,PATCH] loopback: calls netif_receive_skb() instead of netif_rx()) Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21  3:24                   ` Herbert Xu
2008-04-21  3:38                     ` poor network loopback performance and scalability David Miller
2008-04-21  8:11                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-21  8:16                         ` David Miller
2008-04-21 10:19                           ` Herbert Xu
2008-04-21 10:22                             ` David Miller

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