Re: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection

[Eric W. Biederman]

Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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