On Jul 12 2007 21:14, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > Well, smaller stacks are better where possible, but there's nothing magic > about > 4k.
There is. It is exactly one page on x86. I cannot remember who said it when, but anything greater than a page implies some penalty. > Sure, its mostly enough, but there's no particular reason to believe it > will be enough for everything. You could state a priori that all kernel > code paths must fit into 4k of stack, but that's pretty arbitrary. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/