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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] switch_stack position
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 06:31:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205833@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205821@msgid-missing>

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:21:49 -0800, 
David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>Sure, kdb should do it's job right, but kdb is certainly no reason to
>to hack the context switch code.  Not for something that 99.9% of the
>users never even know existed.

One pointer in struct thread, one pointer in switch_stack, ~ 15
instructions (2-3 extra bundles) to set the pointers during
save_switch_stack, load_switch_stack and copy_thread.  Is that too big
a change?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-14  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-13  5:03 [Linux-ia64] switch_stack position Keith Owens
2000-12-14  2:56 ` David Mosberger
2000-12-14  3:46 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-14  4:39 ` David Mosberger
2000-12-14  5:13 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-14  6:21 ` David Mosberger
2000-12-14  6:31 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2000-12-14  6:36 ` David Mosberger
2000-12-14  6:44 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-14  6:56 ` David Mosberger
2000-12-14  7:08 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-14  7:20 ` David Mosberger
2000-12-14  7:30 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-14  7:40 ` David Mosberger

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