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

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 06:57:24 EST


On Sul, 2004-09-12 at 22:36, Lee Revell wrote:
> > hence I don't think not allowing nested irqs at all is a good idea and
> > it's a nice feature to support them.
>
> Agreed. I was just pointing out that in addition to being a bad idea it
> wouldn't work unless the IDE i/o completion issue is addressed.

Limited nesting is fine and we already have the framework to make it
easy to limit nesting nicely if we want to. Doesn't alter the fact the
IDE one wants looking at once the more serious IDE work is done.

Alan

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