From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:26:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack In-Reply-To: <200710091846.22796.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20071004035935.042951211@sgi.com> <200710082255.05598.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200710091846.22796.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Rik van Riel , Andi Kleen , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, travis@sgi.com List-ID: On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > We already use 32k stacks on IA64. So the memory argument fail there. > > I'm talking about generic code. The stack size is set in arch code not in generic code. > > > The solution has until now always been to fix the problems so they don't > > > use so much stack. Maybe a bigger stack is OK for you for 1024+ CPU > > > systems, but I don't think you'd be able to make that assumption for most > > > normal systems. > > > > Yes that is why I made the stack size configurable. > > Fine. I just don't see why you need this fallback. So you would be ok with submitting the configurable stacksize patches separately without the fallback? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org