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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: travis@sgi.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add config variables for SMP_MAX
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:46:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080118204605.GC3079@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080118183011.917801000@sgi.com>

* travis@sgi.com <travis@sgi.com> wrote:

> +config THREAD_ORDER
> +	int "Kernel stack size (in page order)"
> +	range 1 3
> +	depends on X86_64_SMP
> +	default "3" if X86_SMP_MAX
> +	default "1"
> +	help
> +	  Increases kernel stack size.

nack on kernel stack bloat. We worked hard to get the kernel stack 
footprint down to 4K on x86. (and it is 4K on most distros, despite 
there still being a legacy 8K stack size) No way are we going to throw 
away all that now ...

	Ingo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18 18:30 [PATCH 0/5] x86: Reduce memory usage for large count NR_CPUs fixup travis
2008-01-18 18:30 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86: Change size of node ids from u8 to u16 fixup travis
2008-01-18 19:56   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-18 19:59     ` Mike Travis
2008-01-19  4:03   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-19  4:36     ` David Rientjes
2008-01-19  4:43       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-19  5:17         ` David Rientjes
2008-01-19  6:20           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-19 21:25       ` Mike Travis
2008-01-19 22:33         ` David Rientjes
2008-01-20  0:41           ` Mike Travis
2008-01-20  1:31             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-20  6:22             ` David Rientjes
2008-01-18 18:30 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86: Change NR_CPUS arrays in numa_64 fixup travis
2008-01-18 18:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86: Change bios_cpu_apicid to percpu data variable fixup travis
2008-01-18 18:30 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add config variables for SMP_MAX travis
2008-01-18 20:04   ` Ingo Oeser
2008-01-18 20:10     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-18 20:14     ` Mike Travis
2008-01-18 20:36       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-18 20:48         ` Mike Travis
2008-01-18 21:02         ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add config variables for SMP_MAX II Andi Kleen
2008-01-18 20:48       ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add config variables for SMP_MAX Ingo Molnar
2008-01-18 20:55         ` Mike Travis
2008-01-18 20:58           ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-28 16:45       ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-28 17:00         ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-18 20:46   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-01-19 14:52   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-19 15:15     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-19 15:24       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-19 21:52         ` Mike Travis
2008-01-19 23:24         ` Mike Travis
2008-01-20  1:14         ` Mike Travis
2008-01-19 21:39     ` Mike Travis
2008-01-18 18:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86: Add debug of invalid per_cpu map accesses travis
2008-01-18 18:33   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-18 18:49     ` Mike Travis
2008-01-18 18:56     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-18 20:49     ` Ingo Molnar

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