Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263539AbTEGOw3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 10:52:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263578AbTEGOw3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 10:52:29 -0400 Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.21]:39642 "EHLO mailout10.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263539AbTEGOw1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 10:52:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:04:29 +0200 From: Torsten Landschoff To: William Lee Irwin III , J?rn Engel , Linux kernel Subject: Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69 Message-ID: <20030507150429.GA7248@stargate.galaxy> References: <20030507132024.GB18177@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20030507135657.GC18177@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20030507143315.GA6879@stargate.galaxy> <20030507144736.GE8978@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030507144736.GE8978@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 672 Lines: 17 On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:47:36AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > The kernel stack is (in Linux) unswappable memory that persists > throughout the lifetime of a thread. It's basically how many threads > you want to be able to cram into a system, and it matters a lot for > 32-bit. Okay, that makes sense. BTW: Why not go a step further and have just one kernel stack (probably better one per CPU)? Greetings Torsten - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/