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On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:34:50PM -0700, Sergiy Lozovsky wrote: > > --- Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote: > > Sergiy Lozovsky <serge_lozovsky@yahoo.com> 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 :-) You know, to me the combination of lazy programmer rhymes poorly with well-written code and security audits. > What do you think about my solution? Despite some > additional overhead, but I don't think that it is > significant. Personally, I think this proposal would be worthy for the patch-of-the-month award. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/ - 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/ | |||||||||
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