Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932320AbVKOHN0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:13:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932321AbVKOHN0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:13:26 -0500 Received: from c-67-177-35-222.hsd1.ut.comcast.net ([67.177.35.222]:29312 "EHLO vger.utah-nac.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932320AbVKOHN0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:13:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4379846E.2070006@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:47:10 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Brown Cc: Dave Jones , Lee Revell , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks References: <58MJb-2Sn-37@gated-at.bofh.it> <58NvO-46M-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <58Rpx-1m6-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <58UGF-6qR-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <58UQf-6Da-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <437933B6.1000503@shaw.ca> <1132020468.27215.25.camel@mindpipe> <20051115032819.GA5620@redhat.com> <43795575.9010904@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20051115050658.GA13660@redhat.com> <43797E05.5090107@wolfmountaingroup.com> <17273.34218.334118.264701@cse.unsw.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <17273.34218.334118.264701@cse.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1027 Lines: 44 Neil Brown wrote: >On Monday November 14, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote: > > >>Dave Jones wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:26:45PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>NetWare used 16K stacks in kernel by default. >>>> >>>> >>>unsubscribe netware-kernel >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Making the point that in 1990, folks had grown beyond 4K stacks in >>kernels, along with MS DOS 640K Limitations. >> >> > >But I seem to remember learning in CS101 (or whatever we called it), >that the stack grows down and the heap grows up. >So if 'folks had grown beyond 4K stacks', I guess they must be at 2K >stacks ?-> > >NeilBrown > > Great point, and you are correct that MS DOS had bigger stacks than 4K. Onward through the fog .... Jeff - 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/