From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:53:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:53:16 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:54277 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:53:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:52:11 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: softirq in pre3 and all linux ports Message-ID: <20010620145211.F849@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010619210312.Z11631@athlon.random> <15152.6527.366544.713462@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20010620055413.A849@athlon.random> <15152.38018.523162.191937@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15152.38018.523162.191937@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>; from paulus@samba.org on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +1000 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Well if they are relying on having a lot of stack available then those > places are buggy. Once the softirq is made pending it can run at any it's not about having lots of stack available, it's about avoiding recursion. Andrea