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SubjectRe: x86: 4kstacks default
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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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