Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

[Cal Peake]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Alex Davis wrote:

> Could someone either list or post a link to someplace that lists
> all the advantages of 4K stacks? 

See the help text for the option under the kernel configurator...

or <http://lwn.net/Articles/84583/>

To summarize: it allows for more processes/threads (each process/thread 
requires a kernel stack) and it makes it easier for the VM subsystem to 
allocate larger than order 0 (4k) memory segments (i.e. it will be easier 
to find contiguous free blocks).

HTH,
-cp

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