Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:28:52 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option |
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:15:38PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > because it gives people a reason to do sloppy coding.
it's not about bad drivers, it's about the number of nested interrupts not being limited by software right now.
> What we should consider regardless is disable the nesting of irqs for > performance reasons but that's an independent matter
disabling nesting completely sounds a bit too aggressive, but limiting the nesting is probably a good idea. - 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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