Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:50:20 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: x86: 4kstacks default |
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> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:50:53 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:19:30 +0200 > Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > > In theory if you e.g. convert a recursive algorithm > > to iterative you might save some cache foot print, but I don't > > think that really happens in kernel code. > > > > this is what Al did for the symlink recursion thing, and Jens did for the block layer... > so yes this conversion does happen for real.
md got mostly-fixed too, via Neil's patch which sat in -mm for nearly two years.
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