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

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:15:38PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> because it gives people a reason to do sloppy coding.

it's not about bad drivers, it's about the number of nested interrupts
not being limited by software right now.

> 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.
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