On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:47:36AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> The kernel stack is (in Linux) unswappable memory that persists
> throughout the lifetime of a thread. It's basically how many threads
> you want to be able to cram into a system, and it matters a lot for
> 32-bit.
Okay, that makes sense. BTW: Why not go a step further and have just
one kernel stack (probably better one per CPU)?
Greetings
Torsten
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