On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:00:11PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > collecting clean cache doesn't still satisfy the allocation), during > allocations in direct reclaim and increase the THREAD_SIZE than doing > this purely for stack reasons as the VM will lose reliability if we This basically means doubling the stack size, as you can splice together two extremtly stack hungry codepathes in the worst case. Do you really want order 2 stack allocations? -- 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>