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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
Cc: Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:53:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k5xdvttp.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45EFBEB3.20708@argo.co.il> (Avi Kivity's message of "Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:43:47 +0200")

Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il> writes:

> I don't understand why interrupt latency suffers.  Sure, the interrupt that's
> being masked is delayed, but on the other hand the interrupt that's doing the
> masking is not.  We're moving the latency from the first interrupt to the
> second, probably with a slight gain in overall throughput.
>
> It *does* matter if the interrupts have meaningful priorities.  Is that the case
> here?

No.

I'll queue this in my irq things to think about...

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-28 14:27 Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection Chuck Ebbert
2007-02-28 16:31 ` Thiago Galesi
2007-02-28 20:41 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-28 23:20   ` Bill Irwin
2007-02-28 23:36     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-28 23:45       ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-04  1:50   ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-06 18:59     ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-06 19:43       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-06 20:34         ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-07  4:28           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-07  6:44             ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-07 12:34               ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-07 14:48                 ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-07 15:04                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-08  7:43                   ` Avi Kivity
2007-03-19 20:53                     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-03-06 20:06       ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-05  1:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-05 12:39   ` Andi Kleen

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