On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 1:11 AM Klemens Nanni <k...@openbsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 01:12:31PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote:
> > -#define TRUNK_MAX_STACKING   4       /* maximum number of stacked
> trunks */
> Is this an arbitrary limit or does it conceal other limitiations?
>

If stacking is handled via possibly recursive calls then there's an
effective limit imposed by size of the kernel stack.

Imposing a depth limit also prevents looping a stack by adding an upper
trunk to a bottom one.


Philip Guenther

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