On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 01:58:40AM -0400, Matthew Orgass wrote:

 > > Besides that, I'm not sure it makes sense. The resources being
 > > consumed by the kernel thread are its kernel stack, which isn't
 > > something that can be thrown away even if it is preempted.
 > 
 >   Why not?

For a very obvious reason -- the kernel stack (and U-area) for that
thread holds the state of that thread at the time of preemption.

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