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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does process need to have a kernel-side stack all the time?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:59:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48060625.4040509@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080416065451.78329e12@laptopd505.fenrus.org>


> well that and the fact that RH had customers who had major issues at fewer threads
> with 8Kb versus fragmentation.
> on 32 bit with a bunch of ram, there's just not enough lowmem around to not have it
> fragmented to hell and back.

2.6 VM has much more aggressive defrag heuristics than 2.4. That is what
I meant with likely obsolete.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-16 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-14 13:47 Does process need to have a kernel-side stack all the time? Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-14 14:17 ` Denis V. Lunev
2008-04-14 14:54   ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-14 15:21     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 17:44 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-14 18:42   ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-16 12:47   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 13:02     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-16 13:54     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-16 13:59       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-16 14:31         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-16 14:20     ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-16 14:34       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14 23:21 ` Chris Snook

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