On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Well we can now address the rarity. That is the whole point of the
> > patchset.
>
> Introducing complexity to fight a very rare problem with a good
> fallback (refusing to fork more tasks, as well as lumpy reclaim)
> somehow does not seem like a good tradeoff.
The problem can become non-rare on special low memory machines doing wild
swapping things though.
> > It will be more common if the stack size is increased beyond 8k.
>
> Why would we want to do such a thing?
Because NUMA requires more stack space. In particular support for very
large cpu configurations of 16k may require 2k cpumasks on the stack.
> 8kB stacks are large enough...
For many things yes. I just want to have the compile time option to
increase it.
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