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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:34:08 +0200
From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>
To: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
"Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@...com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c -
bisected
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:54 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > And embedded people (the ones that might care about 1% code size) are the
> > ones that would also want smaller stacks even more!
>
> This is something I never understood - embedded devices are not going
> to run more than a few processes and 4K*(Few Processes)
> IMHO is not worth a saving now a days even in embedded world given
> falling memory prices. Or do I misunderstand?
Falling prices are no reason to increase the amount of available RAM (or
other hardware).
Especially if you (intend to) build >1E5 devices - where every Euro
counts.
Bernd
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