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

Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2005-12-19T20:37:21Z

În data de Lu, 19-12-2005 la 15:17 -0500, Parag Warudkar a scris:
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote:
>
> > but you din't answered my question
> > regarding _which_ os you mentioned needing more stack space and why.
>
> The two other commercially successful OSes - Windows and Solaris have
> 12Kb and 8Kb default kernel stack sizes. And both seem to do well
> (hold on :) with the large stack sizes - meaning there is no
> commercially observed problem created by the 8K stack size. Solaris
> even lets you change the kernel stack size at runtime.

My point was that you don't know why those two OS have such a large
stack. Just because you can't look at the source without being
contaminated.

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