Following steps is to maintain only one interval of fixed size virtual addresses (lets say 128KB) for all tasks, and every context switch to update its PTE entries - making it 'small is beautiful' (by saving virtual addresses (and physical)) and bug free (from corrupting the thread_info memory data).
eliad. On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 17:48, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 05:27:54PM +0300, eliad lubovsky wrote: > > The 16K (which could be of any size (32, 64, 128)) is a contiguous > > virtual address space belongs to a specific task. It enables the SP to > > increment that size without corrupting the thread_info data. > > I understand; however, the Linux mentality with regards to stack size > is 'small is beautiful', so in a sense, making the stack larger is > counterproductive. > > Cheers, > Muli ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
