On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:06:39 +0100 Fruhwirth Clemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is nothing wrong with having special methods, that lack generality > but are superior in performance. There is something wrong, when there > are no other. And there are no other for holding three kmappings or more > concurrently. You want more resources in a context where no such thing exists, in interrupt processing context. There the stack is limited, allocatable memory is limited, etc. etc. etc. And all of this is because you cannot sleep in interrupt context. Resources are fixed in this environment exactly becuase one cannot sleep or wait on events. It's supposed to be fast processing, deferring more involved work to process context. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
