Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161119AbVKRS4O (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:56:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161121AbVKRS4O (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:56:14 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:1475 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161119AbVKRS4O (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:56:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks From: Alan Cox To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Dave Jones , Lee Revell , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <43797E05.5090107@wolfmountaingroup.com> 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:27:45 +0000 Message-Id: <1132342065.25914.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 559 Lines: 14 On Llu, 2005-11-14 at 23:19 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Making the point that in 1990, folks had grown beyond 4K stacks in > kernels, along with MS DOS 640K Limitations. And Linux 8086 uses 512 byte kernel stacks, and really wants a bit of tuning to get down to 256. Its about discipline and design not year - 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/