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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