Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:35:36 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks |
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> > - "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
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