Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:07:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:06:53 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:4363 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:06:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:06:45 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Andi Kleen Cc: Denis Vlasenko , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed Message-ID: <20020206150645.G7337@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andi Kleen , Denis Vlasenko , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011207092244.049f6720@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <200202061258.g16CwGt31197@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua.suse.lists.linux.kernel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ak@suse.de on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:19:07PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:19:07PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > glibc 2.3 seems to plan to use segment register based thread local data for > even non threaded programs, so it would be a good idea to optimize LDT > allocation a bit (= not allocate 64K of vmalloc space every time > sys_modify_ldt is called - there is only 8MB of it) Manfred Spraul had a patch that did this. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/