linux-kernel - Re: x86: 4kstacks default

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Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:17:46 +0200
From:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86: 4kstacks default

In article <480BB85A.6020508@...stfloor.org> you wrote:
> If you claim that works on a 32bit system with typically 300-600MB
> lowmem available (which is also shared by other subsystem) I know who
> sounds foolish.

A question along this line. Why is the Userspace Thread bound to a
Kernel-Space Stack at all? I could imagine a solution like Stack Pools
assigned only of a Thread enters kernel space, or something like this?

Gruss
Bernd
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