Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 03:37:55 -0500
From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
       "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
       Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>,
       Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>, Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.6.4-pre1_vsyscall-gtod_B3-part3 (3/3)
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:00:56AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > I will try again with NTPL since it seems they didn't fix it (at
> > least last time I checked the code the LDT waste as still there).
> 
> Does NPTL use the LDT at all?  sys_set_thread_area was created
> specifically so that the LDT isn't needed.

It doesn't and neither does LinuxThreads when run on a recent kernel
(which has set_thread_area).

	Jakub
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