Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:18:15 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: x86 memsize > 1Gb patches. |
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Hello,
> > Are such interface changes worth the performance penalty they incur? > > IMHO, yes. > Stability and safety can go first when inserting binary drivers. > We could, however, have two versions: > - one fast inlined one for the kernel code > - one slower non-inlined version for external drivers
Stability and safety is fulfiled even in the solution I proposed -- modules compiled for different kernel settings could not be inserted.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Application WINDOWS caused error 0: `No error' and will be aborted."
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