Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-15T07:13:26Z

Neil Brown wrote:

>On Monday November 14, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
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>>Dave Jones wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:26:45PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>>>NetWare used 16K stacks in kernel by default.
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>>Making the point that in 1990, folks had grown beyond 4K stacks in
>>kernels, along with MS DOS 640K Limitations.
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>But I seem to remember learning in CS101 (or whatever we called it),
>that the stack grows down and the heap grows up.
>So if 'folks had grown beyond 4K stacks', I guess they must be at 2K
>stacks ?->
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>NeilBrown
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Great point, and you are correct that MS DOS had bigger stacks than 4K.
Onward through the fog ....

Jeff