Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: x86: 4kstacks default | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:25:19 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 05:52 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I wonder if the direct reclaim path should avoid direct reclaim if the stack has only X bytes left. > > (where the value of X is... well we can figure that one out later) > > Actually direct reclaim should be totally avoided for complex > filesystems. It's horrible for the stack and for the filesystem > writeout policy and ondisk allocation strategies.
That's basically any reclaim, even kswapd will ruin policy and block allocation smarts.
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