Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69

Torsten Landschoff
2003-05-07T14:52:29Z

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:47:36AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> The kernel stack is (in Linux) unswappable memory that persists
> throughout the lifetime of a thread. It's basically how many threads
> you want to be able to cram into a system, and it matters a lot for
> 32-bit.

Okay, that makes sense. BTW: Why not go a step further and have just
one kernel stack (probably better one per CPU)?

Greetings

Torsten