1266991 - Add the ability to control the stack size of thread created by the job scheduler

Status: NEW

(Core :: Graphics, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

To make these things as light as possible it would be nice to be able to choose a small stack size. For bug 1263527 we should be able to get away with a very small stack size on the order of a single page.

Comment 1

[Ben Kelly [:bkelly, not reviewing]]

Given that pages are only faulted in for the stack if they are needed, would this really make much of a difference?  All it would seem to do is crash if you happened to use more stack space than expected.  Is there some other benefit I'm not seeing?

Comment 2

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

(In reply to Ben Kelly [:bkelly] from comment #1)
> Given that pages are only faulted in for the stack if they are needed, would
> this really make much of a difference?  All it would seem to do is crash if
> you happened to use more stack space than expected.  Is there some other
> benefit I'm not seeing?

Avoiding address space exhaustion on 32bit.