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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710041220010.12075@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:20:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, travis@....com
Subject: Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> We've known for ages that it is possible. But it has been always so rare
> that it was ignored.

Well we can now address the rarity. That is the whole point of the 
patchset.

> Is there any evidence this is more common now than it used to be?

It will be more common if the stack size is increased beyond 8k.


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