From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mingo@elte.hu,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Large stack usage in fs code (especially for PPC64)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:17:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226963824.7178.255.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081117133137.616cf287.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> I'd have thought so, but I'm sure we're about to hear how important an
> optimisation the smaller stacks are ;)
Not sure, I tend to agree that it would make sense to bump our stack to
64K on 64K pages, it's not like we are saving anything and we are
probably adding overhead in alloc/dealloc. I'll see what Paul thinks
here.
> Yup. That being said, the younger me did assert that "this is a neater
> implementation anyway". If we can implement those loops without
> needing those on-stack temporary arrays then things probably are better
> overall.
Amen.
Cheers,
Ben.
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2008-11-17 21:08 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-17 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-17 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-17 21:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-17 23:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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