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

Adrian Bunk
2005-12-16T15:01:04Z

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:39:56AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>
> Throughout the past two years of 4k stack-wars, I never heard why
> such a small stack was needed (not wanted, needed). It seems that
> everybody "knows" that smaller is better and most everybody thinks
> that one page in ix86 land is "optimum". However I don't think
> anybody ever even tried to analyze what was better from a technical
> perspective. Instead it's been analyzed as religious dogma, i.e.,
> keep the stack small, it will prevent idiots from doing bad things.
>...

It seems you missed the discussion of this issue last month.

Arjan had a good list of all technical advantages of 4k stacks:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.2/0042.html

> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson

cu
Adrian

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