Re: x86: 4kstacks default

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Apr 20 2008 - 17:52:17 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:48:45 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We don't have effective physical address based reclaim yet for higher order allocs.
>
> Lumpy reclaim is supposed to be exactly that.

Also if order 1 allocs were a significant problem on i386 we must have
had lots of reports of EAGAIN on fork/clone with !4k stack kernels. I'm
not aware of an significant number of such reports (there were a few
occasionally, but that is probably normal and unavoidable and can
be caused by other things too like simply running out of lowmem)

-Andi

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