Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K

Richard Weinberger
2014-05-28T16:11:36Z

Am 28.05.2014 18:08, schrieb Steven Rostedt:
> On Wed, 28 May 2014 17:43:50 +0200
> Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
>>> index 8de6d9cf3b95..678205195ae1 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
>>> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>>> #ifndef _ASM_X86_PAGE_64_DEFS_H
>>> #define _ASM_X86_PAGE_64_DEFS_H
>>>
>>> -#define THREAD_SIZE_ORDER 1
>>> +#define THREAD_SIZE_ORDER 2
>>> #define THREAD_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE << THREAD_SIZE_ORDER)
>>> #define CURRENT_MASK (~(THREAD_SIZE - 1))
>>
>> Do you have any numbers of the performance impact of this?
>>
>
> What performance impact are you looking for? Now if the system is short
> on memory, it would probably cause issues in creating tasks. But other
> than that, I'm not sure what you are looking for.

Allocating more continuous memory for every thread is not cheap.
I'd assume that such a change will cause more pressure on the allocator.

Thanks,
//richard