Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

Martin J. Bligh
2005-11-03T15:53:42Z

--Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote (on Thursday, November 03, 2005 16:40:21 +0100):

> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:36 -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> >> Can we quit coming up with specialist hacks for hotplug, and try to solve
>> >> the generic problem please? hotplug is NOT the only issue here. Fragmentation
>> >> in general is.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Not really it isn't. There have been a few cases (e1000 being the main
>> > one, and is fixed upstream) where fragmentation in general is a problem.
>> > But mostly it is not.
>>
>> Sigh. OK, tell me how you're going to fix kernel stacks > 4K please.
>
> with CONFIG_4KSTACKS :)

I've been told previously that doesn't work for x86_64, and other 64 bit
platforms. Is that incorrect?