Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932675AbVLSJgX (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:36:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932710AbVLSJgX (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:36:23 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:58016 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932675AbVLSJgX (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:36:23 -0500 Message-ID: <43A67FFD.2030202@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:40:13 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horst von Brand CC: Steven Rostedt , arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Lee Revell , "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks References: <200512170016.jBH0GQE3004715@quelen.inf.utfsm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200512170016.jBH0GQE3004715@quelen.inf.utfsm.cl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 19 Horst von Brand wrote: >>So people should really be asking for a PAGE_SIZE = 8k option ;) >> >> > >On i386 is is either 4KiB or 4MiB. Guess what I prefer... > > Well, you can always use 8k pages - by setting PAGE_SIZE to 8k and always set up the real 4k pages in pairs. Wheter we want to do this is another issue - but it is simple enough and avoids fragmentation. Helge Hafting - 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/