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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/28/2014 03:11 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 07:23:23AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> We tried for 4K on x86-64, too, for b quite a while as I recall.
>> The kernel stack is a one of the main costs for a thread.  I would
>> like to decouple struct thread_info from the kernel stack (PJ
>> Waskewicz was working on that before he left Intel) but that
>> doesn't buy us all that much.
>>
>> 8K additional per thread is a huge hit.  XFS has indeed always
>> been a canary, or troublespot, I suspect because it originally
>> came from another kernel where this was not an optimization
>> target.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> Always blame XFS for stack usage problems.
> 
> Even when the reported problem is from IO to an ext4 filesystem.
> 

You were the one calling it a canary.

	-hpa


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