Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932670AbVLRCfv (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:35:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932674AbVLRCfu (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:35:50 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:65420 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932670AbVLRCfu (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:35:50 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:35:36 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andi Kleen , Kyle Moffett , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks Message-ID: <20051218023536.GC23384@wotan.suse.de> References: <20051215212447.GR23349@stusta.de> <20051215140013.7d4ffd5b.akpm@osdl.org> <20051216141002.2b54e87d.diegocg@gmail.com> <20051216140425.GY23349@stusta.de> <20051216163503.289d491e.diegocg@gmail.com> <632A9CF3-7F07-44D6-BFB4-8EAA272AF3E5@mac.com> <20051217205238.GR23349@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051217205238.GR23349@stusta.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 941 Lines: 21 > > - "it allows more threads for 32bit which might run out of lowmem" - i > > think everybody agrees that the 10k threads case is not really > > something to encourage. And even when you want to add it then only a factor > > two increase (which this patch brings) is not really too helpful. > >... > > Unfortunately, "is not really something to encourage" doesn'a make > "happens in real-life applications" impossible... real-life applications can either use user space threads or 64bit machines. The days when Linux did otherwise unjustificable ha^w^wdesign changes just to work around the 900MB lowmem on weird loads on extremly big 32bit machines are pretty much over I think... -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/