From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:36:31 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [14/18] Configure stack size Message-ID: <20071003213631.7a047dde@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20071004040004.936534357@sgi.com> References: <20071004035935.042951211@sgi.com> <20071004040004.936534357@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, travis@sgi.com List-ID: On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:59:49 -0700 Christoph Lameter wrote: > Make the stack size configurable now that we can fallback to vmalloc > if necessary. SGI NUMA configurations may need more stack because > cpumasks and nodemasks are at times kept on the stack. With the > coming 16k cpu support this is going to be 2k just for the mask. This > patch allows to run with 16k or 32k kernel stacks on x86_74. there is still code that does DMA from and to the stack.... how would this work with virtual allocated stack? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org