Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack

Nick Piggin
2007-10-08T00:07:36Z

On Friday 05 October 2007 07:20, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > Well we can now address the rarity. That is the whole point of the
> > > patchset.
> >
> > Introducing complexity to fight a very rare problem with a good
> > fallback (refusing to fork more tasks, as well as lumpy reclaim)
> > somehow does not seem like a good tradeoff.
>
> The problem can become non-rare on special low memory machines doing wild
> swapping things though.

But only your huge systems will be using huge stacks?