Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks | Date | Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:08:07 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net> wrote: > It's hard to believe all i386 people have a problem with 8K stacks. What > you said may be a problem domain bound to a specific workload on i386 > with insane amounts of memory and fragmented LOWMEM. - These people can > certainly use 4K stacks and no one is preventing that.
> But normal people with <=1Gb RAM and using i386 on desktop (I am sure > there are many of them) may do OK with 8K stacks if they had a need to do > so. (Like running ndiswrapper, or some other thing which requires bigger > stacks for that matter.)
But those normal people are most of the users, running non-critical stuff, and thus are /excellent/ guinea pigs for the "real world users" you mentioned above ;-)
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