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    SubjectRe: Large stack usage in fs code (especially for PPC64)


    On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
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    > Far be it from me to apportion blame, but THIS IS ALL LINUS'S FAULT!!!!! :)
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    > I fixed this six years ago. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/6/17/68

    Btw, in that thread I also said:

    "If we have 64kB pages, such architectures will have to have a bigger
    kernel stack. Which they will have, simply by virtue of having the very
    same bigger page. So that problem kind of solves itself."

    and that may still be the "right" solution - if somebody is so insane that
    they want 64kB pages, then they might as well have a 64kB kernel stack as
    well.

    Trust me, the kernel stack isn't where you blow your memory with a 64kB
    page. You blow all your memory on the memory fragmentation of your page
    cache. I did the stats for the kernel source tree a long time ago, and I
    think you wasted something like 4GB of RAM with a 64kB page size.

    Linus


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