Re: stack hogs in kernel

In message <20080414213656.Q959_at_desktop>, Jeff Roberson writes:

>> I've long wondered about the seemingly fanatical stack size concern in
>> kernel space.  In other domains (where I have more experience) you can
>> get good performance benefits from the essentially free memory management
>> and good cache re-use that comes from putting as much into the
>> stack/call-frame as possible.
>
>There is a small fixed kernel stack per-thread.

And in case anybody is about to forget: FreeBSD is still used on
systems with a lot less than 1GB ram :-)

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