On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:24:16PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> To deal with networking there are currently a significant number of
> variables with static storage duration. Making those variables global
> and placing them in structures is neither as efficient as it could be
> nor is it as maintainable as it should be. Other subsystems have
> similar problems.
BTW, there is another solution, which you may or may not consider to
be clean.
That is to load a separate copy of the subsystem (code and data) as a
module when you want a new instance of it. The code doesn't change,
but you probably have to move it around some and provide some sort of
interface to it.
I did this to the scheduler last year - see
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111404726721747&w=2
Jeff
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