| Date | Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16:41:06 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! |
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:38:09PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > [..] It's all rather complicated, and I think alien > to Unix folks. [..]
That has _nothing_ to do with software. That's only has to do with the IA32 hardware.
If you only switch the stack during context switching then you _can't_ provide memory protection between different tasks. Period.
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