Re: 4k stacks in 2.6

Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27T14:50:39Z

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:18:40AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> The problem on i386 (unlike x86-64) is that the thread_info struct sits
> at the bottom of the stack and is referenced by masking bits off %esp.
> So the stack size must be constant whether in process context or IRQ
> context.

so what, that's a minor implementation detail, pda is a software thing.