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

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Date:	Thu, 29 May 2014 08:11:18 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	mst@...hat.com, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K

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.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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