linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH UPDATE] deflate stack usage in lib/inflate.c

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:20:40 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@...too.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATE] deflate stack usage in lib/inflate.c


On Apr 12 2007 15:39, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Hmm, does Xen perhaps not use interrupt stacks? Normally 2.7k should be still
>> green as long as there are not too many functions above/below it.
>
>That's a good point, I'll need to check that.  Still, nearly 3k of stack!

I bite. Would compressing the vmlinux binary with LZO or LZMA make an
improvement to the bootstrap uncompress stack usage?


Jan
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