Re: [PATCH 1/3] Separate IRQ-stacks from 4K-stacks option

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Sep 10 2004 - 11:23:33 EST


On Gwe, 2004-09-10 at 16:28, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > What we should consider regardless is disable the nesting of irqs for
> > performance reasons but that's an independent matter
>
> disabling nesting completely sounds a bit too aggressive, but limiting
> the nesting is probably a good idea.

Thats a trivial change because you can poke the overflow IRQs into
IRQ_PENDING and then do a cleanup loop if it was hit

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