Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 18:02:06 EST


> One more optimization it has. NetWare never "calls" functions in the
> kernel. There's a template of register assignments in between kernel
> modules that's very strict (esi contains a WTD head, edi has the target
> thread, etc.) and all function calls are jumps in a linear space.

What if I jump to an invalid address - does it crash ?
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