linux-kernel - Re: x86: 4kstacks default

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Message-Id: <1209039919.7115.360.camel@twins>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:25:19 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	T David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: x86: 4kstacks default

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 05:52 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > I wonder if the direct reclaim path should avoid direct reclaim if the stack has only X bytes left.
> > (where the value of X is... well we can figure that one out later)
> 
> Actually direct reclaim should be totally avoided for complex
> filesystems.  It's horrible for the stack and for the filesystem
> writeout policy and ondisk allocation strategies.

That's basically any reclaim, even kswapd will ruin policy and block
allocation smarts.

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