Re: [PATCH] fs/devfs/base.c

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:38:16 +0200


Hi!

> > It's trivial to calculate for DAGs -- directed acyclic graphs. It's
> > when the "acyclic" constraint is violated that you have problems!
>
> It may well be that interrupt stacks are a win anyway. If we can get the kernel
> struct out of the stack pages (which would fix some very unpleasant cache
> colour problems) and take the non irq stack down to 4K then irq stacks would
> pay off once you had 25 or so processes on a system

For what it is worth, we are using interrupt stack on x86-64. And it
was not *that* painfull.
Pavel

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