On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 09:40:13AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 06:54:16PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It's a buying-time venture, I'll agree but as both approaches are only > > > about reducing stack stack they wouldn't be long-term solutions by your > > > criteria. What do you suggest? > > > > (from easy to more complicated): > > > > - Disable direct reclaim with 4K stacks > > Just to re-iterate: we're blowing the stack with direct reclaim on > x86_64 w/ 8k stacks. The old i386/4k stack problem is a red > herring. Yes that's known, but on 4K it will definitely not work at all. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>