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SubjectRe: x86: 4kstacks default
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> A question along this line. Why is the Userspace Thread bound to a
> Kernel-Space Stack at all? I could imagine a solution like Stack Pools
> assigned only of a Thread enters kernel space, or something like this?
>
>

The vast majority of threads are sleeping (with a stack footprint in the
kernel). If you have an N-way system, at most N threads can be in
userspace at any given moment.

You could multiplex several userspace threads on one kernel thread (the
M:N model), but it gets fairly complex.

--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.



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