Re: x86: 4kstacks default

[Andrew Morton]

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:50:53 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:19:30 +0200
> Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > In theory if you e.g. convert a recursive algorithm
> > to iterative you might save some cache foot print, but I don't
> > think that really happens in kernel code.
> > 
> 
> this is what Al did for the symlink recursion thing, and Jens did for the block layer...
> so yes this conversion does happen for real.

md got mostly-fixed too, via Neil's patch which sat in -mm for nearly two
years.

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