Re: kernel stack size

[Manfred Spraul]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
I admit you really need to know what you're doing to use this method. If
I believe that a kmalloc would be too expensive, then I use the locking
of static variables. But each situation is different and I try to use
the best method for the occasion.
 

Have you benchmarked your own memory manager?
kmalloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL) is something like 17 instructions on i386 
uniprocessor.

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   Manfred
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