Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:24:16 +0100 | From | "Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:24:16 +0100" <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks |
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El Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:34:57 +0200, Dumitru Ciobarcianu <Dumitru.Ciobarcianu@iNES.RO> escribió:
> My point was that you don't know why those two OS have such a large > stack. Just because you can't look at the source without being > contaminated.
opensolaris is open source, you can look at their code.
But I don't think you'll find an answer there. My bet is: because it'd be more difficult for their customers (even if opensolaris is opensource it was born as propietary OS), because doing it doesn't buys you performance and customers, there're not lot of reasons for doing it, etc.
As I understand it, linux is "different". I'd say that the main "philosophic" (not technical) reason for going 4K is: "because we have the balls to write a 4k-stack-safe kernel". Quoting Linus:
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