Re: kernel stack challenge

From: Horst von Brand
Date: Tue Apr 06 2004 - 20:04:23 EST


Sergiy Lozovsky <serge_lozovsky@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> If stack will shrink - i'll come up with something.

Good luck! When it is done shrinking, there won't be much (if any) left for
you to play with.

> Rearchitecture of LISP interpreter - is too much work.

Implement a kernel-side LISP interpreter isn't...

> (and I'm lazy - I prefer computer to do a work, not me
> :-)

Nodz. But even better is _not_ doing it at all ;-)

> I checked what is going on with the stack - it is used
> to pass parameters, some functions have one or two
> local variables (4 bytes each) and that's it.

Why do you think it has been 2 pages (8KiB) for as long as I remember
(essentially forever in Linux), and it has taken a _lot_ of work to shrink
it to 4KiB (- size of *current)?
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