linux-kernel - Re: Does process need to have a kernel-side stack all the time?

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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:59:01 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does process need to have a kernel-side stack all the time?


> well that and the fact that RH had customers who had major issues at fewer threads
> with 8Kb versus fragmentation.
> on 32 bit with a bunch of ram, there's just not enough lowmem around to not have it
> fragmented to hell and back.

2.6 VM has much more aggressive defrag heuristics than 2.4. That is what
I meant with likely obsolete.

-Andi
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