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

Neil Brown
2005-11-15T06:52:51Z

On Monday November 14, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:26:45PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >
> > > NetWare used 16K stacks in kernel by default.
> >
> >unsubscribe netware-kernel
> >
> >
>
> Making the point that in 1990, folks had grown beyond 4K stacks in
> kernels, along with MS DOS 640K Limitations.

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 ?->

NeilBrown

>
> :-)
>
> Jeff