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

Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-18T20:32:37Z

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Llu, 2005-11-14 at 23:19 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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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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>And Linux 8086 uses 512 byte kernel stacks, and really wants a bit of
>tuning to get down to 256.
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>Its about discipline and design not year
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Amen.

:-)

Jeff