Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 10:41:06 EST


On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:38:09PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> [..] It's all rather complicated, and I think alien
> to Unix folks. [..]

That has _nothing_ to do with software. That's only has to do with the IA32
hardware.

If you only switch the stack during context switching then you _can't_ provide
memory protection between different tasks. Period.

Andrea
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