Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K

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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Richard Weinberger
<richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If we raise the stack size on x86_64 to 16k, what about i386?
> Beside of the fact that most of you consider 32bits as dead and must die... ;)

x86-32 doesn't have nearly the same issue, since a large portion of
stack content tends to be pointers and longs. So it's not like it uses
half the stack, but a 32-bit environment does use a lot less stack
than a 64-bit one.

                Linus

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