On 8/1/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, this does not use indefinite stack. > > loop will schedule each request to be handled by a kernel thread, so > requests to 'loop' are serialised, never stacked. > > In 2.6.22, generic_make_request detects and serialises recursive calls, > so unlimited recursion is not possible there either.
Is that saying "before 2.6.22, a read/write on a deeply layered device would use a lot of stack?" - 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/
