Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 (4KSTACK)

Horst von Brand
2004-05-10T20:31:58Z

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> said:

[...]

> I tried 4k stack, I couldn't measure any improvement in anything (as in
> no visible speedup or saving in memory).

4K stacks lets the kernel create new threads/processes as long as there is
free memory; with 8K stacks it needs two consecutive free page frames in
physical memory, when memory is fragmented (and large) they are hard to
come by...
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