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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:05:58 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks
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Alan Cox wrote:

>On Llu, 2005-11-14 at 23:19 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>Making the point that in 1990, folks had grown beyond 4K stacks in 
>>kernels, along with MS DOS 640K Limitations.
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>And Linux 8086 uses 512 byte kernel stacks, and really wants a bit of
>tuning to get down to 256.
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>Its about discipline and design not year
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Amen.

:-)

Jeff
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