From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, travis@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [14/18] Configure stack size
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:26:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710041221080.12075@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710041111.05141.ak@suse.de>
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:59, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Make the stack size configurable now that we can fallback to vmalloc if
> > necessary. SGI NUMA configurations may need more stack because cpumasks
> > and nodemasks are at times kept on the stack. With the coming 16k cpu
> > support
>
> Hmm, I was told 512 byte cpumasks for x86 earlier. Why is this suddenly 2K?
512 is for the default 4k cpu configuration that should be enough for most
purposes. The hardware maximum is 16k and we need at least a kernel config
option that covers the potential stack size issues.
> 2K is too much imho. If you really want to go that big you have
> to look in allocating them all separately imho. But messing
> with the stack TLB entries and risking more TLB misses
> is not a good idea.
These machines have very large amounts of memory (up to the maximum
addressable memory of an x86_64 cpu). The fallback is as good as
impossible. If you get into fallback then we are likely already swapping
and doing other bad placement things. We typically tune the loads to avoid
this.
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 3:59 [00/18] Virtual Compound Page Support V2 Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [01/18] vmalloc: clean up page array indexing Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [02/18] vunmap: return page array passed on vmap() Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [03/18] vmalloc_address(): Determine vmalloc address from page struct Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [04/18] Vcompound: Smart up virt_to_head_page() Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [05/18] Page flags: Add PageVcompound() Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [06/18] Vcompound: Update page address determination Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [07/18] Vcompound: Add compound_nth_page() to determine nth base page Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [08/18] GFP_VFALLBACK: Allow fallback of compound pages to virtual mappings Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [09/18] Vcompound: GFP_VFALLBACK debugging aid Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [10/18] Sparsemem: Use fallback for the memmap Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [11/18] Page allocator: Use a higher order allocation for the zone wait table Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [12/18] Wait: Allow bit_waitqueue to wait on a bit in a virtual compound page Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 11:56 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 12:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 12:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 12:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 17:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 19:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 19:39 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-04 21:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-07 7:35 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-08 17:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-08 12:55 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-09 18:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-09 8:46 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 1:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-09 9:56 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 3:36 ` where to get ZONE_MOVABLE pathces? Jacky(GuangXiang Lee)
2007-10-10 10:32 ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-06 18:53 ` [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack Bill Davidsen
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [14/18] Configure stack size Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 4:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-04 4:43 ` David Miller, Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-04 19:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 9:11 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 19:26 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [15/18] Fallback for temporary order 2 allocation Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [16/18] Virtual Compound page allocation from interrupt context Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [17/18] Virtual compound page freeing in " Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 3:59 ` [18/18] SLUB: Use fallback for table of callers/freers of a slab cache Christoph Lameter
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