Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263415AbUDGBex (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:34:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263419AbUDGBex (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:34:53 -0400 Received: from web40512.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.129]:10637 "HELO web40512.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263415AbUDGBev (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:34:51 -0400 Message-ID: <20040407013450.84365.qmail@web40512.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:34:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Sergiy Lozovsky Subject: Re: kernel stack challenge To: Horst von Brand Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200404070102.i3712nDe002647@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 32 --- Horst von Brand wrote: > Sergiy Lozovsky said: > > Why do you think it has been 2 pages (8KiB) for as > long as I remember > (essentially forever in Linux), and it has taken a > _lot_ of work to shrink > it to 4KiB (- size of *current)? I described the possible solution (virtual stack) which can easily take care of this problem for some subsystems, or am I wrong. If code doesn't allocate big buffers in stack my solution can make conversion of existing code possible without _lot_ of work. (I'm lazy - remember :-) What do you think about my solution? Despite some additional overhead, but I don't think that it is significant. Serge. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/